Impact of Sentencing Guidelines on the Use of Incarceration in Federal Criminal Courts in the United States, 1984-1990
Description
The primary purpose of this data collection was to examine
the impact of the implementation of sentencing guidelines on the rate
of incarcerative and nonincarcerative sentences imposed and on the
average length of expected time to be served in incarceration for all
offenses as well as for select groups of offenses. The measure of
sentence length, "expected time to be served," was used to allow for
assumed good time and parole reductions. This term represents the
amount of time an offender can expect to spend in prison at the time
of sentencing, a roughly equivalent standard that can be measured
before and after the implementation of federal criminal sentencing
guidelines in 1987. Three broad offense categories were studied: drug
offenses, robbery, and economic crimes. Drug offenses include a wide
range of illegal activities involving marijuana, heroin, and
cocaine. Robbery includes bank and postal robbery (both armed and
unarmed) as well as other types of robbery offenses that appear less
frequently in the federal system, such as carrying a firearm during
the commission of a robbery. Economic offenses include fraud (bank,
postal, and other), embezzlement (bank, postal, and other), and tax
evasion. Other monthly data are provided on the number of prison and
probation sentences for all offenses and by offense categories.
Resources
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Description |
Link |
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ICPSR09845.v1 |
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09845.v1 |
Tags
- probation
- program-evaluation
- robbery
- courts
- drug-law-offenses
- sentencing-guidelines
- tax-evasion
- sentencing
- parole
- imprisonment