sisfcf: Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional...

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Description

Loads clean version of SISFCF data into the environment.

Usage

data(sisfcf)

Format

Data are structured as one observation per survey participant Variables include:

id

Unique identifier for each inmate

facility_id

Unique identifier for each prison facility

sex

Sex of the participant

age

Age of the participant

race

Race of the participant

education

Highest education level prior to being admitted to prison; 1=1st grade...12=12th grade, 13=college freshman, 14=college sophmore, 15=college junior, 16=college senior, 17=one year graduate school, 18=two or more years of graduate school

income_pre

Monthly income in the month before arrest

citizen

Yes indicates participant is a US Citizen

married

Marital status of the participant

child_minor

Yes indicates the participant has a child under the age of 18

veteran

Yes indicates the participant is a veteran of the US Armed Forces

state_resident

State of participant's residence

state_offense

State in which offense took place

offense

Offense for which participant is currently serving, detailed categories

offense_collapsed

Offense for which participant is currently serving, collapsed to four categories

adult

Yes indicats the participant was sentenced as an adult

work

Yes indicates that the participant has a work assignment inside the facility

job_training

Yes indicates that the participant has participated in vocational or job-training since being admitted into the facility

criminal_hist

Status of the participant's criminal history: no history if first time, recidivists (have history) categorized as violent or nonviolent

n_arrested

Number of times participant has been arrested (0 if no criminal history)

age_first_arrest

Age of participant's first arrest, if participant has a criminal history (missing for participants without a criminal history)

parents_sentenced

Yes indicates participant has a parent who has been sentenced for criminal activity

family_sentenced

Yes indicates participant has a family member who has been sentenced for criminal activity

sentence_lenth_mo

Participant's sentence length, in months

sentence_length_yr

Participant's sentence length, in years

arrest_mo

Month in which participant was arrested

arrest_yr

Year in which participant was arrested

admission_mo

Month in which participant was admitted to the facility

admission_day

Day in which participant was admitted to the facility

admission_yr

Year in which participant was admitted to the facility

sentence_mo

Month in which participant was sentanced

sentence_yr

Year in which participant was sentanced

release_mo

Month in which participant will be released (expected)

release_yr

Year in which participant will be released (expected)

Details

These data were cleaned for the purpose of Data Science 1000 in the following way: Observations with missing data were removed

Source

Data were collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Bureau of the Census using personal interviews with individuals at federally owned and operated prisons. https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/NACJD/studies/4572/export#

Examples

# Run descriptive statistics on the data:
#hist(sentence_length_yr)
#table(race)
#mean(age)

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