Florida State Prison Sentencing Counts by County, 1905-1910

This dataset contains information about state prison sentencing counts by county in Florida for the years 1905-1910. The data includes various aggregated statistics such as the population of white and Black residents, the number of sentences, and other demographic and agricultural factors at the county level. The dataset also includes geographic information in the form of simple features (sf) representing county boundaries from the year 1910. The population data for each county has been interpolated linearly between the decennial censuses of 1900 and 1910.

Usage

data(sentencing_sf)

Format

A simple features (sf) object with 47 observations and 9 variables:

name

Name of the county (character).

wpop

White population (numeric).

bpop

Black population (numeric).

sents

Number of sentences in the county (numeric).

plantation_belt

Indicator of plantation belt counties (numeric).

pct_ag_1910

Percentage of agricultural land in 1910 (numeric).

expected_sents

Expected number of sentences based on population (numeric).

sir_raw

Index of racial disparities in sentencing (numeric).

geometry

Geometry column containing the spatial boundaries of the counties (list of simple features).

Source

Data compiled from historical census and sentencing records of Florida, 1905-1910.

Details

The dataset name has been changed to 'sentencing_sf' to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the crimedatasets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix 'sf' indicates that the dataset is a spatial object, using the Simple Features format. The original content has not been modified in any way.