Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases in District Court - Pending, 2015

The data contain records of defendants in criminal cases filed in United States District Court before or during fiscal year 2015 and still pending as of year-end. The data were constructed from the Administrative Office of the United States District Courts' (AOUSC) criminal file. Defendants in criminal cases may be either individuals or corporations. There is one record for each defendant in each case filed. Included in the records are data from court proceedings and offense codes for up to five offenses charged at the time the case was filed. (The most serious charge at termination may differ from the most serious charge at case filing, due to plea bargaining or action of the judge or jury.) In a case with multiple charges against the defendant, a "most serious" offense charge is determined by a hierarchy of offenses based on statutory maximum penalties associated with the charges. The data file contains variables from the original AOUSC files as well as additional analysis variables. Variables containing identifying information (e.g., name, Social Security number) were either removed, coarsened, or blanked in order to protect the identities of individuals. These data are part of a series designed by Abt and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by Abt.

本数据集收录了在美国地区法院提起的刑事案件中，截至2015财年前或期间审理的被告人记录，并截至年底仍待审理的案件。数据由美国地区法院行政办公室（AOUSC）的刑事档案构建而成。刑事案件的被告人可以是个人或企业。每起案件中的每位被告人都有一条记录。记录中包含法庭审理数据和指控的至多五项罪行的罪名代码（案件终止时最严重的指控可能与案件提起时最严重的指控不同，这是由于认罪辩诉或法官或陪审团的行动所致）。在针对被告人的多项指控案件中，根据与指控相关的法定最高刑罚的罪名等级确定“最严重”的罪名指控。数据文件包含原始AOUSC文件中的变量以及额外的分析变量。为了保护个人身份，包含识别信息（例如，姓名、社会保障号码）的变量已被删除、粗略化或空白化。这些数据是Abt和司法统计局设计的一系列数据的一部分。数据和文档由Abt准备。