Criminal Misdemeanor Dockets from the Las Vegas Municipal Court (2009-2013)

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posted on 2013-08-26, 08:27 authored by James EstevezJames Estevez

lvmc.tar.bz2: Raw html case summaries scraped from the case management site of the Las Vegas Municipal Court (http://www.lasvegasnevada.gov/government/municipalcourt.htm)

docketsDT.RData/docketsDT.csv: A table in CSV and R Data format containing 18 variables ("history.number", "case.number", "citation.number", "violation",
"violation.date", "name", "department", "court.date", "charge.denied",
"plea", "finding", "attorney.is.assigned", "attorney.is.private",
"attorney.name", "attorney.bar.num", "pc.hearing.held", "pc.found") extracted from case activity logs contained within the case summaries of closed cases.

sentsDT.RData/sentsDT.csv: A table containing case number, date, sentence name, cash (T/F), sentence due, sentence paid, and sentence balance for cases in the docketsDT dataset.

lvmc.py: Python script to download the case summaries from the LVMC website.

lvmc.R: R script to parse the HTML case summaries into the provided CSV and RData files.