2019-2020 Virginia Pretrial Data Project

For the 2023 study, individuals with pretrial contact events during CY2019 and CY2020 were selected. As with the previous study, for individuals with more than one contact event during the calendar year, only the first event was selected. Individuals in the CY2019 and CY2020 cohorts were tracked for a minimum of 15 months (until the disposition of the case or the end of the follow-up period, whichever occurred first). While adhering to the established data collection methods, the Sentencing Commission introduced another selection criteria for the CY2019 and CY2020 cohorts. With multiple years of pretrial data now available, the Sentencing Commission was able to identify contact events in CY2019 and CY2020 that were associated with a contact event that occurred during the previous calendar year. For example, this may occur if an individual had a contact event in one year that resulted in his release during the pretrial period and, while on pretrial release, the individual was arrested for a new criminal offense during the following calendar year. The new criminal arrest during the pretrial release period is considered an outcome of the original event. For the newest study, the defendant’s first contact event in a calendar year was excluded if it was identified as a pretrial outcome for an event that occurred during the previous calendar year. Overall, the CY2019 and CY2020 cohorts contain more than 360,000 and 271,000 adult defendants, respectively.

Click below to download the publicly available datasets (154MB).

• 2019 First Quarter Dataset
• 2019 Second Quarter Dataset
• 2019 Third Quarter Dataset
• 2019 Fourth Quarter Dataset

   

• 2020 First Quarter Dataset
• 2020 Second Quarter Dataset
• 2020 Third Quarter Dataset
• 2020 Fourth Quarter Dataset

If you are having trouble downloading a dataset, please email meredith.farrar-owens@vcsc.virginia.gov or call Sentencing Commission staff at 804.225.4398.