National Survey of Federal District Court Community Actors

这是一个三部分的研究在案件处理，量刑和组织文化在联邦刑事司法系统（FCJS）研究区际变化的第三阶段。 第三阶段将包括在全国范围内对所有联邦刑事法院的联邦法官、所有美国检察官、首席联邦缓刑官和首席联邦公设辩护人进行调查，并对美国助理检察官、联邦公设辩护人、经常从事联邦刑法工作的私人律师和联邦缓刑官进行随机抽样（按巡回和地区大小分层）。 第三阶段将利用前两个阶段的研究成果，开发一种调查工具，并收集全国范围内有关联邦地区法院社区行为者、关系、做法和文化的定量数据。 具体而言，调查将集中在以下概念类别：1）常规案件处理策略，2）法院社区赞助机构之间的组织间关系，3）法院社区行为者个人的特征和态度，以及4）法院社区文化/规范。PI将联合收割机将这些数据与现有的USSC量刑数据和城市研究所案件处理数据相结合，并与地区特征的汇总上下文数据相结合。 PI还将通过将调查数据集放入ICPSR数据集档案中，使其他研究人员可以使用调查数据集。

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.