Federal Justice Statistics Program: Statutes for Counts of Convictions for Defendants Sentenced Under the Sentencing Reform Act, 2012

These data contain records of statutes for each count of conviction for criminal defendants who were sentenced pursuant to provisions of the Sentencing Reform Act (SRA) of 1984 and reported to the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) during fiscal year 2012. The data are one of two supplementary files that should be used in conjunction with the primary analysis file, which contains records for all defendants sentenced under the guidelines. These data can be linked to the primary analysis file using the unique identifier variable SEQ_NUM. The number of records for a defendant in the current data corresponds to the total number of counts of conviction for that defendant, and that total is recorded in the NOCOUNT variable. As an example, if a defendant has five counts of conviction (NOCOUNT=5), he or she will have five records in the current data. As it is possible for defendants to have multiple statutes applying to a single count of conviction, up to three statutes (STA1-STA3) are recorded for each count of conviction. The data were obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission's Office of Policy Analysis' (OPA) Standardized Research Data File. These data are part of a series designed by the Urban Institute (Washington, DC) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data and documentation were prepared by the Urban Institute.

本数据集收录了2012财年间，依据1984年《量刑改革法案》（Sentencing Reform Act, SRA）量刑并上报至美国量刑委员会（United States Sentencing Commission, USSC）的刑事被告人的每项定罪罪名所对应的法规记录。本数据集为两份补充文件之一，需与包含所有依量刑指南量刑被告人记录的主分析文件配套使用。可通过唯一识别变量SEQ_NUM将本数据集与主分析文件进行关联。本数据集内某一被告人的记录条数与其定罪罪名总数一致，该总数存储于变量NOCOUNT中。举例而言，若某被告人共有5项定罪罪名（NOCOUNT=5），则其在本数据集中将对应5条记录。由于单个定罪罪名可能对应多部法规，因此每条定罪罪名记录最多可存储3部法规（STA1-STA3）。本数据集来源于美国量刑委员会政策分析办公室（Office of Policy Analysis, OPA）的标准化研究数据文件。本数据集为城市研究所（华盛顿特区）与美国司法统计局联合设计的系列数据集之一，数据集及相关文档均由城市研究所编制。