Interesting Jail Data Questions

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Brian Everett Peterson edited this page Apr 11, 2014 · 1 revision

The kinds of queries we anticipate wanting to know about the jail population. We should be able to reproduce as many of the analyses in this report as possible. http://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=criminaljustice_facpubs

Population

Number of inmates in the jail on a given date

Possible to segment by charge
Possible to segment by housing location
Segmented by bond
Possible to segment by race
Possible to segment by gender

Residence of current population

How long the incarcerated population on a given date had been in jail

By day
By charge
(Maybe by housing location?)

Inflow/Outflow:

For a given date how many people came into and left the system

Segmented by charged
Segmented by location
Segmented by bond
Segmented by race
Segmented by gender

Length of stay

For a given date, what is distribution of lengths of stays for people booked in on that date

Segmented by charge
Segmented by bond
Segmented by race
Segmented by gender

Bail

For a given time unit, what is the bail people who have entered the system

Segmented by charge
Segmented by race
Segmented by gender