NCJ Number
96074
Date Published
1982
Length
143 pages
Annotation
This document, part of the evaluation of New Jersey's statewide sentencing guidelines, pertains to the survey that solicited relevant inmate attitudes; it describes data collection, data scope, file processing, confidentiality procedures, and tape and file specifications. Also included are the data dictionary listing, the survey instrument, the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) access program, and variable frequency distributions.
Abstract
The Evaluation of Statewide Sentencing Guidelines project studied the development, implementation, and use of statewide sentencing guidelines and reported on the perceptions of criminal justice system personnel and inmates regarding those guidelines. The New Jersey Inmate Survey Data, 1980, one part of the research, includes 191 variables for each of the 157 inmates interviewed about their attitudes toward the appropriateness of penalties for various kinds of crimes and their perceptions of sentencing guidelines in concept and as operationalized in the New Jersey sentencing guidelines. Data were prepared using an SPSS program.