A comprehensive review of the status of criminal history records maintained by States criminal history (SCH) repositories. major findings (level of automation of master name indexes & criminal history files, level of disposition reporting, level of felony flagging, timeliness of trail court disposition data); detailed findings (status of SCH files, completeness of data in SCH repository, disposition & correctional data, timeliness of data in SCH repository (arrests, disposition data, admission to correctional facilities), procedures to improve data quality, & linking of arrests & dispositions. Glossary. Charts & tables.