• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 1992-03-04T00:00:00

The certainty and promptness of punishment have long been hypothesized to be important variables in deterring crime. This data collection evaluates whether sentencing reforms to enhance...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2006-03-30T00:00:00

This project sought to investigate a possible relationship between sentencing guidelines and family structure in the United States. The research team developed three research modules...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 1992-02-17T00:00:00

The purpose of this data collection was to assess the impact of the 1973 reforms of the death penalty laws on the levels of arbitrariness and discrimination in capital sentencing in Georgia....

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2006-03-30T00:00:00

Effective October 1, 1994, the state of North Carolina implemented a new structured sentencing law that applied to all felony and misdemeanor crimes (except for driving while impaired)...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2018-05-15T07:37:06

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2018-05-16T13:49:52

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2020-09-30T10:09:07

On January 1, 2011, the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) launched "A Natural Experiment in Reform: Analyzing Drug Law Policy in New York," which was funded by the National Institute of Justice,...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2016-02-26T21:10:54

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they were received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped for NACJD release, but not checked or processed...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2014-06-25T13:31:50

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...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2006-01-18T00:00:00

This study explored the implementation and impact of Measure 11 (passed by Oregon voters in 1994), which imposed long mandatory prison terms for 16 designated violent and sex-related offenses,...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2007-09-27T00:00:00

In order to assess the impacts of state-level sentencing and corrections policies in the United States implemented between 1975 and 2002 on state incarceration rates during that same time...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2006-03-30T00:00:00

This study evaluated the Violent Offender Incarceration/Truth-in-Sentencing (VOI/TIS) incentive grant program enacted in 1994. The program provided grants to states to be used to increase the...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2014-01-31T09:52:23

The study examined the first five years of operation of Kansas senate bill 123 (November 2003-November 2008) examining individual-level and system-level outcomes over time and across community...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2005-02-25T00:00:00

This study examined New Jersey's No Early Release Act (NERA), which became effective in 1997. NERA required that offenders convicted of violent crimes serve at least 85 percent of...

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