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NCJ Number: 205518 Find in a Library
Title: Trends in Felony Case Processing in the 1990s
Author(s): Marian J. Gewirtz
Date Published: December 2000
Annotation: This report addresses trends in the characteristics of defendants in felony cases as well as their processing in the New York City criminal justice system in the 1990's.
Abstract: The datasets used for this study included approximately 2,000 docketed felony arrests selected from particular days in May of each sample year in the 4 largest New York City counties. The study assessed trends in arrest, arraignment and disposition, the Criminal Justice Agency (CJA) community ties rating, criminal history, arraignment outcomes (both disposition and release status), criminal and supreme court dispositions, and two measures of pretrial misconduct (i.e., failure to appear in court as scheduled and rearrest). The study found that trends in felony case processing in New York City in the 1990's involved decreased volume and a shift in arrest charges. Felony arrest charges were increasingly likely to be reduced to less than felony affidavit charges; however, disposition rates at arraignment did not change. By the end of the 1990's, defendants in felony arrests were older, and they had more prior felony and misdemeanor convictions. Recommendations for release on recognizance based on community ties increased, and release rates at arraignment decreased and then increased. Bail amounts were higher. The proportion of defendants given pretrial release increased for defendants who were eventually released on recognizance and decreased for those who eventually posted bail. Fewer felony arrests were prosecuted in the upper court in 1998 than in previous years; and fewer cases were left open, continued, or with open bench warrants. Conviction rates among cases disposed varied little by year. The proportion of convicted defendants sentenced to prison decreased through the 1990's while the proportion sentenced to a conditional discharge increased. Among those given a prison sentence, nearly one-third in the 1998 sample were sentenced to "time served," a higher proportion than in any previous year. Pretrial failure-to-appear rates declined. 37 tables
Main Term(s): Court statistics
Index Term(s): Arrest statistics; Court research; Dispositions; Felony; New York; Pretrial procedures; Pretrial release; Sentencing/Sanctions
Sponsoring Agency: New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc
New York, NY 10007
Corporate Author: New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc
United States of America
Sale Source: New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc
52 Duane Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10007
United States of America
Publisher: http://www.nycja.org/research/research.htm 
Page Count: 39
Format: Document
Type: Report (Study/Research)
Language: English
Country: United States of America
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