Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences, [United States], 2007

This collection contains information on federal criminal cases sentenced under the Sentencing Guidelines and Policy Statements of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. The data files include all cases received by the United States Sentencing Commission that had sentencing dates between October 1, 2006, and September 30, 2007, and were assessed as constitutional. Constitutionality compares each case's sentencing date, circuit, district, and judge to provide uniformity in reporting the cases. In 1999, the United States Sentencing Commission added more variables from its databases to this collection, so the data are now provided in two files. Several variables iterate to include multiple occurrences of the same event. Part 1, Main Data, includes all noniterating variables plus the first three occurrences of each iterating variable. Over 99 percent of the valid data is captured in these three variables for most sets of iterations. Part 2, Supplementary Data, includes the remaining iterations.

本数据集收录了依据1984年《量刑改革法案》（Sentencing Reform Act of 1984）制定的量刑指南与政策声明进行判决的联邦刑事案件相关信息。本次收录的数据文件涵盖美国量刑委员会（United States Sentencing Commission）接收的全部案件，这些案件的判决日期介于2006年10月1日至2007年9月30日之间，且经评估符合宪法规定。合宪性评估环节会比对每起案件的判决日期、巡回法院辖区、地区法院及主审法官信息，以确保案件报送的统一性。1999年，美国量刑委员会从其数据库中新增更多变量至本数据集，因此目前数据分为两个文件提供。部分变量采用迭代形式，以涵盖同一事件的多次发生情况。第一部分「主数据集」包含所有非迭代变量，以及每个迭代变量的前三次出现记录。对于绝大多数迭代变量组而言，这三次记录已覆盖超过99%的有效数据。第二部分「补充数据集」则包含剩余的迭代记录。