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    Repeat Offender Laws in the United States: Forms, Uses, and Perceived Value, 1983

    Metadata Updated: March 12, 2025

    This survey of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges in jurisdictions with sentence enhancement statutes for repeat offenders collected information about the characteristics of the laws and criminal justice professionals regarding the fairness, effectiveness, and practice of the laws. The jurisdiction file includes variables such as jurisdiction size, number of provisions in the law, number of felony cases handled under the law per year, number of defendants sentenced as repeat offenders, frequency of charging and sentencing under the law, and minimum and maximum sentences specified in the statutes. The variables in the three surveys of practitioners contain data related to their familiarity with the laws, descriptions of recent cases, and satisfaction with the new statutes.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: us-pd

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    Metadata Created Date March 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 12, 2025
    Publisher National Institute of Justice
    Maintainer
    Identifier 3259
    Data First Published 1990-05-01T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2006-01-18T00:00:00
    Public Access Level public
    Aicategory Not AI-ready
    Bureau Code 011:21
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
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    Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
    Internalcontactpoint {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Jennifer Scherer", "hasEmail": "mailto:Jennifer.Scherer@usdoj.gov"}
    Jcamsystem {"acronym": "OJP_EXT", "id": 8, "name": "External system not available in CSAM"}
    License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Metadatamodified 9/2/2022 6:22:00 PM
    Program Code 011:060
    Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > National Institute of Justice
    Sourceidentifier https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09328
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c6a5fde1b1173397cbe6737bbfe684c2d34854a0e3a8af2b495da307e82b5de1
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