Compendium Of Federal Justice Statistics

Describes the progress of Federal criminal suspects through prosecution, pretrial release, adjudication, sentencing, & supervision & corrections. Tables follow the text of each chapter. Both individual & corporate cases are included in the tables, as are both felonies & misdemeanors. Covers from Ô84-'92, describing each aspect of processing in relation to suspects or defendants who completed a pertinent stage of processing during CY Ô93. During Ô93, 63,000+ defendants were prosecuted by U.S. attorneys in U.S. courts. Charts & tables.

This report includes statistics related to Federal criminal case processing, Oct. 1, 1998, through Sept. 30, 1999. Chapters: introduction; arrests for Federal offenses; prosecution; pretrial release; adjudication; sentencing; appeals; corrections; methodology: the Federal justice database, table construction & interpretation, offense classifications, & source agencies for compendium data tables; & glossary. The tables in the Compendium were constructed to permit valid comparisons within each table & to allow the reader to compare percentages (but not raw totals) across tables. Illustrated with numerous charts & tables.

Reports on federal criminal case processing in matters concluded by U.S. attorneys from Oct. 1, 1995 through Sept. 1996. Each chapter of the report describes a major stage in the processing of criminal suspects and defendants, and contains chapter notes that describe the universes of data used in the tables and information relevant to the interpretation of individual tables. Includes: system overview; prosecution; pretrial release; adjudication; sentencing; appeals; corrections; methodology; and glossary. Illustrated with numerous tables and charts.