National Survey of Federal District Court Community Actors

这是由三部分组成的研究的第三阶段，研究联邦刑事司法系统(FCJS)在案件处理、量刑和组织文化方面的地区间差异。第三阶段将包括对联邦刑事法院的所有联邦法官、所有美国检察官、首席联邦缓刑监督官和首席联邦公共辩护人进行的全国性调查，以及对助理美国检察官、联邦公共辩护人、经常从事联邦刑法的私人律师和联邦缓刑监督官的随机抽样(按巡回法庭和地区大小分层)。第三阶段将利用研究的前两个阶段得出的见解，开发一种调查工具，并收集关于联邦地区法院社区行为者、关系、做法和文化的全国量化数据。具体而言，调查将集中于以下概念性类别：1)常规案件处理策略；2)法院社区发起机构之间的组织间关系；3)个别法院社区参与者的特征和态度；以及4)法院社区文化/规范。PIS将把这些数据与现有的USSC量刑数据和城市研究所的案件处理数据结合起来，并与关于地区特征的综合背景数据结合起来。PIS还将把调查数据集放入太平洋数据中心数据集档案中，供其他研究人员使用。

This is the third phase of a three-part study of study interdistrict variation in case processing, sentencing, and organizational culture in the Federal Criminal Justice System (FCJS). Phase III will consist of a nationwide survey of all federal judges sitting in federal criminal court, all U.S. Attorneys, Chief Federal Probation Officers, and Chief Federal Public Defenders, and a random sample (stratified by circuit and district size) of Assistant U.S. Attorneys, Federal Public Defenders, private attorneys regularly practicing federal criminal law, and Federal Probation Officers. Phase III will draw upon the insights derived from the first two phases of the research to develop a survey instrument and collect nationwide quantitative data on federal district court community actors, relationships, practices, and culture. Specifically, the survey will focus on the following conceptual categories: 1) routine case processing strategies, 2) interorganizational relations between court community sponsoring agencies, 3) individual court community actors' characteristics and attitudes, and 4) court community culture/norms. The PIs will combine these data with existing USSC sentencing data and Urban Institute case processing data, and with aggregate contextual data on district characteristics. The PIs will also make the survey dataset available to other researchers by putting it in the ICPSR dataset archives.