State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) Program,1990-98

• NCJ Number: 194821
• Date Published: March 2005
• Length: 0 pages
• Agencies: BJS
• Publication Type: Statistics

Annotation

This CD-ROM presents data for the period 1990-1998 on the demographic characteristics, criminal history, pretrial processing, adjudication, and sentencing of felony defendants collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the Nation’s 75 largest counties.

Abstract

This CD includes biennial data on the processing of felony defendants in State courts of the Nation's 75 most populous counties. It presents data on the demographic characteristics, criminal history, pretrial processing, adjudication, and sentencing of felony defendants in State courts in large urban counties. The data sets included are comprised of the standardized variables that appear in each SCPS data series between 1990 and 1998. The BJS reports based on these data, Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, are also included.