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Reconciling Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics: A Federal Justice Statistics Program Methodology Report
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Reconciling Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics: A Federal Justice Statistics Program Methodology Report
Publication year:
1999
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Technical work done and recommendations by the Interagency Working Group on Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics are presented. After determining the primary reasons for differences in agencies' reported statistics (definitions of case and a defendant, reporting and data collection periods, offenses and case type, classifying the case or defendant substantive offense, offense hierarchy, disposition, and sentences imposed, the working group reconciled the differences by reanalyzing the agencies' data while taking into account known disparity sources. Recommendations for improving federal criminal data collection are: standardization of court docket number, standardization of defendant name, and adoption of an offender case tracking number.