Federal Justice Statistics Program: Defendants in Federal Criminal Cases in District Court -- Terminated, 2004 [United States]

The data contain records of defendants in criminal cases terminated in United States District Court during fiscal year 2004. 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, or "SAF" variables, that denote subsets of the data. These SAF variables are related to statistics reported in the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, Tables 4.1-4.5 and 5.1-5.6. Variables containing identifying information (e.g., name, Social Security number) were replaced with blanks, and the day portions of date fields were also sanitized in order to protect the identities of individuals. 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2004财年美国联邦地区法院审结刑事案件中的被告人记录。本数据集基于美国联邦地区法院行政办公室（Administrative Office of the United States District Courts, AOUSC）的刑事案件档案构建而成。刑事案件中的被告人既可以是自然人，也可以是法人。每一起提交的案件对应每位被告人一条记录。记录内容涵盖案件归档时指控的最多五项罪名的庭审数据与罪名编码。（由于辩诉交易、法官或陪审团的裁决，案件审结时认定的最严重指控可能与案件归档时的初始指控存在差异。）若被告人面临多项指控，将依据各项罪名对应的法定最高刑构建罪名层级体系，以此确定“最严重”指控罪名。本数据集文件既包含原始AOUSC档案中的变量，也包含额外的分析变量——即“SAF”变量，用于标识数据集的子集。此类SAF变量与《联邦司法统计纲要》（Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics）中表4.1-4.5及5.1-5.6所刊载的统计数据相关。为保护个人身份信息，所有包含识别信息（如姓名、社会安全号码）的变量均已置空，日期字段中的日期部分也已做脱敏处理。本数据集是城市研究所（华盛顿哥伦比亚特区）与美国司法统计局联合设计的系列数据集之一，数据集及配套文档均由城市研究所编制完成。