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In contrast to most published studies, we analyze actual administrative records on corruption prosecutions for the Department of Justice (DOJ). In doing so, we follow Boylan and Long (2003) who obtained administrative records on convictions for the Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJSRC). However, beginning in 2001, the FJSRC changes its classification system so that it no long identifies public corruprtion cases. Instead, we access the DOJ administrative records via the
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC),
a non‐profit group dedicated to facilitating public access to federal data. TRAC uses Freedom
of Information requests to collect a plethora of
up to‐date government records; this information is
available to the public, albeit under a limited
license......[citing TRAC research].
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