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Special Topics
Topics that are of critical interest or that frequently cut across the justice system:
- Deaths in Custody - presents tables with detailed data from the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP), a series of individual-level data collections on deaths in State prisons, local jails and State juvenile correctional facilities, and on arrest-related deaths involving State and local law enforcement agencies.
- Drugs
and Crime - presents all BJS materials on drugs and crime and
links to Drugs and Crime Facts, a summary of the latest statistics about
drug-related crimes, law enforcement, courts, and corrections in the
United States from a wide variety of sources.
- Firearms
and Crime - BJS statistics on firearms and crime
including data on the extent of the use of firearms in crime, resulting
injury, background checks for firearms transfers, and firearms offenders.
- Homicide
Trends - over 50 charts and supporting materials describing
the trends in homicide since 1976. In addition to general trends, it
includes sections on the characteristics of victims and offenders, infanticide,
eldercide, homicide by intimates, law enforcement officers killed, weapons
used, and regional trends.
- International
statistics - BJS materials on international justice
statistics including the World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems.
Links to United Nations collections and individual country websites
are included.
- Intimate Partner Violence - examines fatal and non-fatal violence by intimates (current or former spouses, girlfriends, or boyfriends) since the redesign of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) in 1993. Data from 1993 to 2005 are examined in addition to aggregated data from 2001 to 2005.
- Reentry Trends in the United States - a summary of BJS statistics on inmates returning to the community after serving time in State or Federal prison.
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