Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP)
Examining Prosecutorial Discretion in Federal Criminal Cases: Legal and Extra-Legal Determinants of Declination and Charge Change Decisions
Date Published
2018
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Federal Justice Statistics Program (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
The FJSP provides annual data on workload, activities, and outcomes associated with federal criminal cases. BJS acquires information on all aspects of processing in the federal justice system, including—
- the number of persons investigated, prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated, sentenced to probation, released pretrial, and under parole or other supervision
- initial prosecution decisions, referrals to magistrates, court dispositions, sentencing outcomes, sentence length, and time served.
The program...
Exploring a New Data Platform for Research on Human Trafficking Investigation, Prosecution, Sentencing, Time Served, and Recidivism
2014-R2-CX-0006
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2014
$492,113
An analysis of federal human trafficking cases, including the effect of prostitution arrests on trafficking charges filed, using publicly-available data from the National Archive of Criminal Justice
2010-IJ-CX-1673
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2010
$39,087
Workshop on Sentencing and Other Federal Case Data Analysis, July 2009
Date Published
July 2009
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored