The data file contains federal criminal cases as observations and case attribute variables. This data file is the basis for the article Discretion and Disparity in Federal Detention, 115 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1261 (2021), available at:  https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol115/iss5/1/. This data file is created with data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission annual individual datafiles, which are publicly available for download at:  https://www.ussc.gov/research/datafiles/commission-datafiles, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys National Caseload Data, which are publicly available for download at:  https://www.justice.gov/usao/resources/foia-library/national-caseload-data, and the IRS Statistics of Income ZIP Code Data, which are publicly available for download at:  https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-individual-income-tax-statistics-2013-zip-code-data-soi.

Last modified

• 04/05/2021

Creator

• Didwania, Stephanie Holmes

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-4fys-yk14

Publisher

• Northwestern Law Review

Keyword

• criminal law

Date created

• 2021

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•  https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol115/iss5/1/

Resource type

• Dataset

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• No Copyright - United States

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• Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal