Wisconsin law Review Comment
The Use of Wisconsin’s Bail Jumping Statute: A Legal and Quantitative Analysis
Amy Johnson
To assess the impact of the bail jumping statute and the Wisconsin courts’ interpretation of it, quantitative analysis on CCAP data was performed. The results of this research will be documented in the 2018 Wisconsin Law Review Comment "The Use of Wisconsin’s Bail Jumping Statute: A Legal and Quantitative Analysis".
All the Wisconsin misdemeanor and felony cases present in CCAP from 2000-2016 were analyzed in September 2017. This consisted of over 1.62 million cases and 3.28 million charges. The results of this analysis are presented in this website.
Per the Wisconsin Circuit Court Data Subscription Agreement:
Notice to employers: It may be a violation of state law to discriminate against a job applicant because of an arrest or conviction record. Generally speaking, an employer may refuse to hire an applicant on the basis of a conviction only if the circumstances of the conviction substantially relate to the particular job. For more information, see Wisconsin Statute 111.335 and the Department of Workforce Development’s Arrest and Conviction Records under the Law publication.
Law Review Comment
The first link below provides the Law Review Comment.
The second link contains the documentation of the module written to extract the data from CCAP.
Summarized Data
This section contains the summarized data found in the law review comment. Data is presented in Excel spreadsheets. Note that data is sometimes grouped by a set of years because of the size limitations of Excel.
The links below are grouped according to the different sections of the Law Review Comment.
Section B - Introduction
Section B.1 - Statewide Bail Jumping Analysis
Section B.2 - county Bail Jumping Analysis
Section B.4 - High Number Bail Jumping
Section B.3 - County Case Analysis - leverage
This section contains links to the three database tables that contain the CCAP data. Data is presented in Excel spreadsheets. Note that data is sometimes grouped by a set of years because of the size limitations of Excel.
CCAP_CASE_ALL contains all the case and charge information from 2000-2016. There is one row for each charge, totalling over 3.28 million rows. There is one CCAP_CASE_ALL spreadsheet for each year.
CCAP_CASE_SUMMARY_MASTER accumulates the charge information from CCAP_CASE_ALL for each case into one summarized row. Note that only closed cases are summarized. There is one row for each closed case, totally 1.62 million rows. There is one CCAP_CASE_SUMMARY_MASTER spreadsheet for each year.
CCAP_REPORT_MASTER accumulates the case data from CCAP_CASE_SUMMARY_MASTER at the race, year and county level. There is one row for each race type (3 types - white, non-white, all), county (72 counties), and year (17 - 2000-2016), for a total of 3,672 rows. There is one spreadsheet for the CCAP_REPORT_MASTER, available by clicking on the Excel icon.