Cook County Criminal Sentencing and Charge Disposition Records

Sentencing data from the Cook County State's Attorney's Office details court judgments for convicted individuals, with each row representing a sentenced charge. The dataset includes fields for SENTENCE_TYPE, CHARGE_DISPOSITION, OFFENSE_CATEGORY, and demographic information like GENDER. This collection is no longer actively maintained as of December 30, 2024.

Use Cases

• Analyzing relationships between OFFENSE_CATEGORY, DISPOSITION_CHARGED_CLASS, and resulting SENTENCE_TYPE or COMMITMENT_TYPE.
• Investigating temporal trends in sentencing using SENTENCE_DATE, DISPOSITION_DATE, and ARRAIGNMENT_DATE fields.
• Studying case processing timelines by calculating intervals between RECEIVED_DATE, FELONY_REVIEW_DATE, and DISPOSITION_DATE.
• Examining charge severity and outcomes via CHARGE_COUNT, PRIMARY_CHARGE_FLAG, and CHARGE_DISPOSITION_REASON.
• Profiling case assignments and outcomes by SENTENCE_JUDGE, SENTENCE_COURT_NAME, and SENTENCE_COURT_FACILITY.

Strengths

• Dataset provides 30 distinct columns covering legal, temporal, and demographic facets of each charge.
• Includes unique identifiers (CASE_ID, CHARGE_ID, CASE_PARTICIPANT_ID) for record linkage and case tracking.

Limitations

• Dataset is deprecated and no longer updated, limiting analysis to historical periods before 2025.
• Unknown row count and sample size prevent assessment of statistical power or representativeness.
• Absence of sample data prevents verification of data integrity, encoding, or null value patterns.

Provenance

Source

Cook County State's Attorney's Office via datacatalog.cookcountyil.gov.

Collection Method

Administrative records from court sentencing proceedings.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated record shows 2026-04-02, but the dataset is deprecated as of 12/30/2024.

Geography

Cook County, Illinois, United States.