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Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, 2003

Presents national-level statistics describing characteristics of persons processed and the distribution of case processing outcomes at each major stage of the Federal criminal justice system. This annual report includes investigations by U.S. attorneys, prosecutions and declinations, pretrial release and detention, convictions and acquittals, sentencing, appeals, and correctional populations. New this year are statistics on fugitive investigations by the U.S. Marshals Service. This is an electronic only document.

Highlights include the following:

  • During 2003, 126,878 suspects were arrested by Federal law enforcement agencies for violations of Federal law.
  • During 2003, U.S. Attorneys initiated criminal investigations involving 130,078 suspects, and they concluded their investigations of 128,518.
  • During 1990 and 2003, the number of offenders on community supervision increased by 29%, from 84,801 during 1990 to 108,976 during 2003.

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This report is one in a series. More recent editions may be available. To view a list of all in the series go to the publications page.

Full report: Acrobat file (2M)
ASCII file (185K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (119K)

Chapter 1: Arrests for Federal offenses
Acrobat file (898K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (18K)
Chapter 2: Prosecution
Acrobat file (967K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (13K)
Chapter 3: Pretrial release
Acrobat file (829K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (26K)
Chapter 4: Adjudication
Acrobat file (956K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (12K)
Chapter 5: Sentencing
Acrobat file (757K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (14K)
Chapter 6: Appeals
Acrobat file (744K) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (11K)
Chapter 7: Corrections
Acrobat file (1M) | Spreadsheets (zip format) (31K)

Interactive tabulations of Federal criminal case processing data are available from the Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center.

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