The Anatomy of Discretion: An Analysis of Prosecutorial Decision-making for Cases Processed by Offices in One Northern County and One Southern County, 2007-2010

record abstracts, face-to-face interview, mail questionnaire Users should be aware that the two participating District Attorney's offices are identified only by the pseudonyms "Northern County" and "Southern County". The qualitative data are available through restricted access procedures in two zip files. The file qda32542-0004_REST.zip (Part 4, Northern County Focus Group Qualitative Data) includes notes from five focus groups conducted with ADAs and team captains, and two interviews with the District Attorney (DA). The file qda32542-0011_REST.zip (Part 11, Southern County Focus Group Qualitative Data includes notes from 4 focus groups conducted with ADAs and new team leaders, and 3 interviews with the DA and Deputy DA. Users should be aware that the feedback received from prosecutors in the focus groups (Parts 4 and 11) was recorded as field notes. Since interviews/focus groups were not recorded, these notes cannot produce exact quotes in all instances. Users should be aware that there are some discrepancies in case counts between the information in the final report for the study, and the data available in this collection. For Part 5, the final report indicates that there was a final sample of 658 unique cases from the property team. However, only 654 cases are selected using the FILT4PROPERTYCOHORT filter found in the data. The 658 count was obtained using a different filter, "FILT4MOST_NODRGORSEX" before the principal investigators discovered four homicide cases that didn't belong in the dataset. The filters "FILT4PROPERTYCOHORT" and "FILT4PERSONCOHORT" excluded those four cases.