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Bureau of Justice Statistics PublicationsThis is an alphabetical list of BJS publications that are in electronic formats. To view an abstract and connect to electronic versions, click on the titles listed. Subscribe to JUSTSTATS for email notices of new statistical materials from BJS, the FBI, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention upon release. If you know the title click on the first letter of the title: |
| # | 50 Largest Crime Labs, 2002, 09/04. Reports on the workload, backlog, and estimated resources needed to meet the demand for forensic services in the Nation's 50 largest publicly funded crime labs. NCJ 205988 |
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Age Patterns of Victims of Serious Violent Crime, 8/97. Presents data from the redesigned NCVS that examines violent crime across the general population, ages 12 or older. NCJ 162031 Age Patterns in Violent Victimization, 1976-2000, 02/02. Examines data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports on trends in violent crime by age in the United States. NCJ 190104 Alcohol and Crime, 4/98. Provides an overview of national information on the role of alcohol in violent victimization and its use among those convicted of crimes, including victim perceptions of alcohol use by offenders at the time of the crime. NCJ 168632 American Indians and Crime: A BJS Statistical Profile, 1992-2002, 12/04. Reports the rates and characteristics of violent crimes experienced by American Indians and summarizes data on American Indians in the criminal justice system. NCJ 203097
Appeals from General Civil Trials in 46 Large Counties, 2001-2005, 7/06. Presents information on general civil cases concluded by bench or jury trial in 2001 that were subsequently appealed to a State’s intermediate appellate court or court of last resort. NCJ 212979 Arrest-Related Deaths in the United States, 2003-2005, 10/07. Presents the first findings from the law enforcement collection of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP), which is the largest resource of information ever collected on arrest-related deaths. NCJ 219534 Assessing Measurement Techniques for Identifying Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Observation-Based Data Collection in Airports and at Immigration Checkpoints, 01/03. Reports on data collected about demographic characteristics of persons observed by Federal law enforcement officers. NCJ 196855 Assessing the Accuracy of State Prisoner Statistics, 2/99. Compares two series of data on characteristics of State prisoners: State prison records and State court records. NCJ 173413 |
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Background Checks for Firearm Transfers. Describes background checks for firearm transfers. In electronic format only:
Black Victims of Violent Crime, 8/07. Presents findings about violent crime experienced by non-Hispanic blacks. NCJ 214258 Bridging
Gaps in Police Crime Data, Describes the history of the FBI's
Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system and the data problems that it deals
with in reporting crime, arrests, and homicide. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2002: At a Glance, 8/02. Presents findings of major BJS statistical series, descriptions of data collection programs, summarizes programs to help States and localities to develop automated information systems, and describes how to use BJS services including the BJS website. NCJ 194449
Bureau of Justice Statistics Publications Catalog 1997, 8/97. Abstracts reports forthcoming in 1997 or published in 1993-97. NCJ 164385 |
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Campus Law Enforcement, 2004-05, 02/08. Presents findings from a BJS survey of campus law enforcement agencies serving 4-year colleges and universities with 2,500 or more students. NCJ 219374
Capital Punishment, Presents characteristics of persons under sentence of death at yearend and of persons executed. This annual BJS report summarizes the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during the year. In electronic format only:
Carjacking, 1993-2002, 07/04. Presents data for carjackings that occurred in the United States between 1993 and 2002. NCJ 205123
Census of Jails 1999, 8/01. Presents facility characteristics and characteristics of persons under the jurisdiction of local and Federal jail authorities on June 30, 1999. NCJ 186633
Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005, 07/08. Presents findings from the Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, 2005. NCJ 222181
Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 2005, 10/08. Presents selected findings from the Census of State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 2005. The report includes data on characteristics of facilities by type, size, security level, rated and design capacities, court orders, and use of private contractors. NCJ 222182
Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 2004. 6/07. Reports the results of a census, conducted every four years, of all State and local law enforcement agencies operating nationwide. NCJ 212749
Census of Tribal Justice Agencies in Indian Country, 2002, 12/05. Presents detailed information gathered on tribal law enforcement agencies, tribal courts and services, and criminal record systems from the 2002 Census of Tribal Justice Agencies in American Indian Jurisdictions. NCJ 205332 Challenging the Conditions of Prisons and Jails: A Report on Section 1983 Litigation, 12/94. Discusses the extent and outcomes of Federal civil suits by prisoners against correctional authorities. NCJ 151652 Changes in Criminal Victimization 1994-95, 4/97. Presents the 1995 findings from the National Criminal Victimization Survey, an ongoing survey of households that each year interviews about 100,000 persons in 50,000 households. NCJ 162032 Characteristics of Adults on Probation, 1995, 12/97. Provides data from a nationally representative sample of official records of nearly 6,000 adults under probation supervision in 166 State and local probation offices nationwide. NCJ 164267 Characteristics of Drivers Stopped by Police, 2002, 6/06. Provides data on the nature and characteristics of traffic stops, as collected in the 2002 Police-Public Contact Survey, a supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey. NCJ 211471
Characteristics of State Parole Supervising Agencies, 2006, 8/08. Presents information for 52 state parole supervising agencies at midyear 2006, including the California Youth Authority and the District of Columbia. NCJ 222180 Characteristics of Suspected Human Trafficking Incidents, 2007-08, 1/09. Presents preliminary findings from the Human Trafficking Reporting System (HTRS) on alledged incidents of human trafficking reported by 38 federally funded task forces. NCJ 224526 Child Rape Victims, 1992, 6/94. Provides information on the ages of female rape victims in the 15 States that compile such data. NCJ 147001 Child
Victimizers: Violent Offenders and Their Victims, 3/96. This
study presents findings on violence against children from two sources:
a 1991 nationally representative sample of State prison inmates serving
time for violent crimes against children and law enforcement records of
nearly 37,000 child murder victims between 1976 and 1994. Citizen Complaints about Police Use of Force, 6/06. Presents data on citizen complaints about police use of force received by large, general purpose State and local law enforcement agencies as well as on complaint dispositions. NCJ 210296 Civil Bench and Jury Trials in State Courts, 2005, 10/08. Discusses general civil cases (tort, contract, and real property) concluded by a bench or jury trial in a national sample of jurisdictions in 2005. NCJ 223851 See also Civil Trial Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties, 2001. Civil Jury Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties: Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 1992, 7/95. Discusses the 12,000 tort, contract, and real property rights cases disposed of by juries in the 75 largest counties during a 12-month period ending June 30, 1992. NCJ 154346 Civil Rights Complaints in U.S. District Courts, 1990-2006, 8/08. Examines civil rights claims based on race, age, sex, or national origin involving employment, welfare, housing, voting, or other civil rights discrimination issues. NCJ 222989
Civil Trial Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties, 2001, 04/04. Presents findings on tort, contract, and real property cases disposed by jury or bench trial in 2001 in the nation's 75 largest counties. NCJ 202803 See also Civil Bench and Jury Trials in State Courts, 2005. Civil Trial Cases and Verdicts in Large Counties, 1996, 9/99. NCJ 173426 Community Policing in Local Police Departments, 1997 and 1999, 2/01. Focuses on changes in the prevalence of community oriented policing policies, programs, and activities. NCJ 184794 Comparing Case Processing Statistics, Second edition, 4/98. Identifies the primary differences in case processing statistics reported by the agencies and explains why the reported statistics are not directly comparable. NCJ 169274
Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, 2004, 12/06. Describes all aspects of processing in the Federal justice system, including numbers of persons prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated, sentenced to probation, released pretrial, and under parole or other supervision. NCJ 213476
Compendium of State Privacy and Security Legislation: 2002 Overview, 11/03. Overview of State legislation governing the privacy, security, maintenance, and dissemination of criminal history records. NCJ 200030
Conducting Community Surveys: A Practical Guide for Law Enforcement Agencies, 10/99. Summarizes basic points that law enforcement officials should consider in deciding whether to survey the public. NCJ 178246 Contacts between Police and the Public, 2005, 4/07. Presents data over a 12-month period on the nature and characteristics of face-to-face contacts between residents of the U.S. and the police. The report also provides demographic and other characteristics of residents involved in traffic stops and use of force incidents. NCJ 215243
Continuing Criminal History Records Improvement Evaluation: Final 1994-98 Report, 2/00. Describes the results of an ongoing evaluation of State activity relating to improvement of criminal records. NCJ 179768 Contract Trials and Verdicts in Large Counties, 2001, 2/05. Presents findings on contract cases disposed by jury or bench trials in 2001 in the Nation's 75 largest counties. NCJ 207388
Correctional
Populations in the United States, Presents data on the number of persons
in the United States who were under some form of correctional supervision.
The Costs of Crime to Victims, 2/94. Provides information on both the overall and the average cost of crime to victims. NCJ 145865 Crime and Justice in the United States and in England and Wales, 1981-96, 10/98. Presents data that compares crime in the United States and England with respect to crime rates (as measured both by victimization surveys and police statistics), conviction rates, incarceration rates, and length of sentences. NCJ 169284 Crime and Neighborhoods, 6/94. Compares victimization levels and perceptions of neighborhood crime for the Nation's households using data from a variety of sources. NCJ 147005 Crime and the Nation's Households, 2005, 4/07. Presents national estimates of the percentage of households that experienced one or more violent or property crimes in 2005 as measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey. NCJ 217198
Crime and Victimization in the Three Largest Metropolitan Areas, 1980-98, 2/05. Examines burglary, robbery, and aggravated assault in the metropolitan areas of New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles to assess changes in reporting to the police over time. NCJ 208075 Crime Data Requests 1994-96: A Review of Requests for Crime Information from the State Law Enforcement Division of South Carolina, 3/98. Presents findings from the review of data requests made to the UCR Department of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) to gain an improved understanding of the types of criminal data most commonly requested and to identify standard incident-based tables that could streamline SLED's provision of information. NCJ 170028 Crimes against Persons Age 65 or Older, 1993-2002, 1/05. Presents data from the National Crime Victimization Survey and the Uniform Crime Reports comparing crimes against persons age 65 or older with those in younger age groups. NCJ 206154
Criminal Victimization, 2007, 12/08. Presents estimates of rates and levels of personal and property victimization for 2007 and describes the substantial fluctuations in the survey measures of the crime rates from 2005 through 2007. NCJ 224390
Criminal Victimization, 1973-95, 4/97. This report presents trend data for 1973-95 from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), including data collected both before and after a substantial methodological redesign that was implemented in 1992. NCJ 163069 Criminal Victimization 1994: National Crime Victimization Survey, 4/96. Presents the first 1994 findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), based on an ongoing survey of households, each year interviewing about 100,000 persons in 50,000 households. NCJ 158022
Criminal Victimization and Perceptions of Community Safety in 12 Cities, 1998, 5/99. Presents survey data from 12 cities regarding criminal victimization and residents' attitudes toward their neighborhood, their city, and the local policing services. NCJ 173940 Criminal Victimization in the United States, Presents 110 tables with detailed data on major variables measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
Cross-National Studies in Crime and Justice, 09/04. Summarizes the results from a study that documents crime and criminal punishment trends from 1981 to 1999 in eight countries: Australia, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. NCJ 200988 Cybercrime against Businesses, 2005, 9/08. Presents the nature and prevalence of computer security incidents among 7,818 businesses in 2005. This is the first report to provide data on monetary loss and system downtime resulting from cyber incidents. NCJ 221943 |
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Data Collections for the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, 07/04. Reports on the status of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) efforts to measure the incidence and prevalence of sexual assault within the Nation's correctional facilities. NCJ 206109 Defense Counsel in Criminal Cases, 11/00. Examines issues of legal representation for defendants in Federal district court and large local jurisdictions, and inmates in local jails and Federal and State prison. NCJ 179023 Displaying Violent Crime Trends Using Estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey, 6/98. Intended for an audience that is not trained in statistics, this report presents violent crime trends from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) graphically to enhance understanding of precision in sampled data and statistical significance. NCJ 167881 DNA Forensics: Expanding Uses and Information Sharing, 4/07. Examines the history and economics of DNA use and reviews privacy concerns regarding the release of an individual's genetic information. NCJ 217992 Domestic and Sexual Violence Data Collection: A Report to Congress under the Violence Against Women Act , 7/96. Reports how States and the Federal government collect data on the incidence of sexual and domestic violence offenses. NCJ 161405 Drug-Related Crime, 8/94. This Fact Sheet describes the ways drugs and crime can be related and presents statistics on drugs and crime from BJS and non-BJS sources. NCJ 149286 Drug Use and Dependence, State and Federal Prisoners, 2004, 10/06. Presents data from the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities on prisoners' prior use, dependence, and abuse of illegal drugs. NCJ 213530 Drug Use, Testing, Treatment in Jails, 5/00. Describes the drug involvement of jail inmates and the level of drug use, testing, and treatment in jails. NCJ 179999 Drugs & Crime Facts (Acrobat file 739K), 10/02. This printable version of the website summarizes data about drug-related crime; drug use by offenders at the time of offense; drug law enforcement; pretrial release of drug defendants; prosecution and sentencing of drug offenders in both Federal and State courts; recidivism of drug law violators; public opinion about drugs; drugs and juveniles; drugs and gangs; and drug use in the general population. This site (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dcf/contents.htm) is available in electronic formats only and is updated when new data become available.
DWI Offenders under Correctional Supervision, 6/99 Provides data on offenders in jail, in prison, or on probation for driving while intoxicated. NCJ 172212 |
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Education and Correctional Populations, 01/03. Compares educational attainment of State and Federal prison inmates, jail inmates, and probationers to that of the general population. NCJ 195670 Effects of NIBRS on Crime Statistics, 7/00. Compares data from Federal Bureau of Investigation Summary Uniform Crime Reports and National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) for 1,131 agencies. NCJ 178890 The Effects of the Redesign on Victimization Estimates, 4/97. Compares the effect on victimization rates of old and new methodology used in the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), a major source of national statistics on crimes and victims. NCJ 164381 Elderly Crime Victims, 3/94. Summarizes levels and rates of violent and nonviolent crimes against persons 65 or older using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. NCJ 147186
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Family Violence Statistics: Including Statistics on Strangers and Acquaintances, 6/05. Compares family and nonfamily violence statistics from victimization through the different stages of the justice system. NCJ 207846 Federal Criminal Appeals, 1999, with Trends 1985-99, 4/01. Describes the increase in the appellate caseload as a result of challenges to the sentence imposed. NCJ 185055 Federal Criminal Case Processing, 2002: With trends 1982-2002, Reconciled Data, 01/05. An annual publication that provides statistics describing defendants processed at different stages of the Federal criminal justice system for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2002. NCJ 207447
Federal Criminal Case Processing, 1982-93, with Preliminary Data for 1994, 5/96. The sixth annual report in the BJS series presents data describing Federal criminal case prosecution, adjudication, and sentencing, as well as time served by Federal offenders. NCJ 160088
Federal Criminal Justice Trends, 2003, 8/06. Presents data on Federal criminal justice trends from 1994-2003. This report summarizes the activities of agencies at each stage of the Federal criminal case process. NCJ 205331 Federal Drug Offenders, 1999 with Trends 1984-99, 8/01. Describes offenders investigated for and charged with Federal drug offenses during 1999 and trends in drug prosecutions from 1984 to 1999. NCJ 187285 Federal Enforcement of Environmental Laws, 1997, 11/99. Provides data on defendants charged in 1997 with criminal or civil violation of Federal law protecting the environment from excessive and unnecessary discharge of hazardous substances and other pollutants or law protecting and conserving the Nation's natural resources and wildlife. NCJ 175686 Federal Firearms-Related Offenses: Federal Offenses and Offenders, 7/95. Notes the association between firearms involvement and an increased severity of sentence as well as a more extensive criminal history for Federal prisoners. NCJ 148950 Federal Firearm Offenders 1992-98: With Preliminary Data for 1999, 6/00. Describes trends associated with the prosecution of firearm offenders in U.S. district courts between 1992 and 1999. NCJ 180795 Federal Habeas Corpus Review: Challenging State Court Criminal Convictions, 9/95. Examines a sample of disposed habeas corpus cases (through which State prisoners make petitions to challenge the validity of their convictions or sentences) in 18 Federal district courts in 9 selected States (Alabama, California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas). NCJ 155504 Federal Justice Statistics, 2005, 9/08. Presents federal criminal case statistics on suspects and defendants processed in the federal criminal justice system. NCJ 220383 (See also Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics) Federal Justice Statistics, 2005 - Statistical Tables, 9/08. Describe suspects arrested and booked by the U.S. Marshals Service, suspects investigated by U.S. attorneys, defendants convicted and sentenced in U.S. district court, and persons under supervision in prison and the community. NCJ 218524 Federal Law Enforcement Officers, 2004, 08/06. Reports the results of a biennial census of Federal agencies employing personnel with arrest and firearms authority. NCJ 212750
Federal Offenders under Community Supervision, 1987-96 8/98. Describes trends in the composition of offenders under Federal supervision between 1987 and 1996 since the implementation of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984, which took effect on November 1, 1987. NCJ 168636 Federal Pretrial Release and Detention, 1996, 2/99. Describes pretrial release and detention practices in the Federal criminal justice system. NCJ 168635 Federal Prosecution of Child Sex Exploitation Offenders, 2006, 12/07. Presents Federal criminal case processing statistics on child sex offenses, including sex transportation, sexual abuse, and child pornography. NCJ 219412 Federal Prosecution of Human Trafficking, 2001-2005, 10/06. Presents Federal criminal case processing statistics on peonage and slavery statutes in the U.S. criminal code with a focus on human trafficking offenses created by Congress in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000. NCJ 215248 Federal Tort Trials and Verdicts, 2002-03, 8/05. Presents findings on jury and bench tort trials concluded in Federal district courts during fiscal years 2002-03. NCJ 208713
Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 2004, 4/08. Presents data collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the nation's 75 largest counties during May 2004. NCJ 221152
Felony Sentences in State Courts, 2004, 7/07 Presents statistics for adults who were convicted of a felony and sentenced in State courts. The data were collected in a nationally representative survey of 300 counties in 2004. NCJ 215646
Felony Sentences in the United States, 1996, 7/99. Presents
the latest available figures for both State and Federal sentencing, reporting
that in 1996 the Nation's courts convicted a combined total of over one
million adults of a felony offense. NCJ 175045
Female Victims of Violent Crime, 12/96. Summarizes data collected from the National Crime Victimization Survey and the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports on the number of violent incidents involving female victims. NCJ 162602 Firearm Injury and Death from Crime, 1993-97, 10/00. Reports on the incidence of fatal and nonfatal firearm injuries that result from crime. Most of the data presented are from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vital Statistics and the Firearms Injury Surveillance Study which collects data on injuries treated in hospital emergency departments. NCJ 182993 Firearm Injury from Crime: Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice, 4/96. Reports available statistical information on fatal and nonfatal firearm injury that results from crime from a number of sources. NCJ 160093 Firearm Use by Offenders, 11/01. Describes firearm use of State and Federal prison inmates including types of firearms used, characteristics of inmates using firearms, why and where inmates used their firearms, and where they obtained their firearms. NCJ 189369 Firearms and Crimes of Violence, 2/94. This report summarizes selected findings on trends in firearm use in serious violent crime, based on FBI data on homicide, BJS data on victimization and inmate firearm use, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data on firearm ownership by high school students. NCJ 146844 |
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German and American Prosecutions: An Approach to Statistical Comparison, 2/98. Provides a statistical comparison of German and American prosecutions, focusing mainly on charging, conviction, and sentencing rates for selected crimes. NCJ 166610 Guide to the BJS Website: Third Edition, 12/02. Announces the latest updates and additions published only on the BJS website. NCJ 187735 Guide to the BJS website: Second Edition, 5/00. NCJ 180771 Guns and Crime: Handgun Victimization, Firearm Self-Defense, and Firearm Theft, 4/94. Provides estimates of the extent of handgun crime in the United States through 1992, as well as estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey of thefts of firearms and the extent of firearm use for self-defense. NCJ 147003 Guns Used in Crime: Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice, 7/95. Provides information from several sources about the guns used by criminals. NCJ 148201 |
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Hate Crimes Reported in NIBRS, 1997-99, 9/01. Utilizes data from the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting Program (NIBRS) to describe hate crimes reported to law enforcement in NIBRS-participating jurisdictions, between 1997 and 1999. NCJ 186765 Hate Crimes Reported by Victims and Police, 11/05. Provides information on the number of hate crimes reported to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and their characteristics. NCJ 209911 Hepatitis Testing and Treatment in State Prisons, 4/04. Presents facility policies related to hepatitis C testing and treatment and hepatitis B vaccinations, based on the 2000 Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities, which gathered data from 1,584 State institutions. NCJ 199173 Hispanic Victims of Violent Crime, 1993-2000/Víctimas Hispanas de Crímenes Violentos, 1993-2000, 04/02. Examines violent crimes committed against Hispanic victims including rape, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault. Crime victimizations of Hispanics are compared with those of four non-Hispanic groups: whites, blacks, American Indians, and Asians. NCJ 191208
HIV in Prisons, This web page provides the number of state and federal inmates who were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or had confirmed AIDS at yearend. In electronic format only:
Previous edition (non-electronic)Homicide Trends in the United States, 7/07. (Acrobat file 1.1 M) Describes homicide patterns and trends in the United States since 1976. It is a PDF version of the BJS website that includes a series of charts.
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Identity Theft, 2005, 11/07. Presents data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) on identity theft victimization and its consequences. NCJ 219411
Immigration Offenders in the Federal Criminal Justice System, 2000, 08/02. Describes the number of immigration offenders prosecuted in Federal court between 1985 and 2000. NCJ 191745 Implementing the National Incident-Based Reporting System: A Project Status Report, 7/97. Presents the recommendations developed during a project directed jointly by BJS and the FBI to identify significant impediments to participation in NIBRS by large local law enforcement agencies nationwide and promising cost-effective approaches to encourage wide adoption of NIBRS. NCJ 165581 Improving Access to and Integrity of Criminal History Record, 7/05. Examines the problem of missing dispositions in State criminal history records and the availability of State records to support the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. NCJ 200581 Improving Criminal History Records for Background Checks, 2005, 07/06. Describes the achievements of the National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP), its authorizing legislation, and program history. NCJ 211485 Improving Criminal History Records in Indian Country, 2004-2006, 7/07. Describes the achievements of the Tribal Criminal History Records Improvement Program (T-CHRIP) which provides grants to federally recognized tribes to improve data sharing across tribal, state and national criminal records systems. NCJ 218913 Incarcerated Parents and Their Children, 8/00. Presents data from the 1997 Surveys of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities concerning inmates with children under the age of 18, whether or not inmates lived with their children prior to admission, and the children's current care givers. NCJ 182335 Increasing the Utility of the Criminal History Record: Report of the National Task Force,12/95. This report describes deliberations of a multi-agency task force to develop a uniform RAP sheet format and identifies and discusses issues concerning inclusion and presentation of RAP sheet data. NCJ 156922 Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007, 12/07. Presents data on crime and safety at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population. A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. NCJ 219553
Indigent Defense, 2/96. This report of presented selected findings drawn from various BJS surveys contains information related to the indigent defense for criminal defendants. NCJ 158909 Indigent Defense Services in Large Counties, 1999, 11/00. Describes the methods by which criminal indigent defense is delivered in the Nation's 100 most populous counties. NCJ 184932 Injuries from Violent Crime, 1992-98, 6/01. Presents data from the redesigned National Crime Victimization Survey, examining injuries as a result of violent victimizations. NCJ 168633 Intellectual Property Theft, 10/04. Presents statistics on both criminal and civil enforcement of Federal intellectual property laws for 1994-2002. NCJ 205800 Intimate Partner Violence in the United States, 12/07. This webpage 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. NCJ 210675
Intimate Partner Violence and Age of Victim, 10/01. Provides estimates of violence by intimates (current or former spouses, girlfriends, and boyfriends) with an emphasis on the victim's age using the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), 1993-99. NCJ 187635 |
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Jail Inmates at Midyear 2007, 6/08. Presents data on numbers of jails and jail inmates at midyear 2007 and analyzes patterns of growth from 2000 through 2007. NCJ 221945 (See also Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear .) Jails and Jail Inmates, 1993-94, 4/95. Presents data for each State and the District of Columbia including the number of jail inmates, the incarceration rates, rated capacity, percent of capacity occupied on June 30, the number of jail employees, demographic characteristics of the staff, inmate-to-staff ratios, and changes since 1983 in these measures. NCJ 151651 Jails in Indian Country, 2007, 11/08. Presents findings from the 2007 Survey of Jails in Indian Country, an enumeration of 83 jails, confinement facilities, detention centers, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs. NCJ 223760
Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program, 2005, 7/05. Describes the steps used in the JAG formula calculation process and presents summary results of the FY 2005 formula calculations. NCJ 209333 Justice Expenditure and Employment in the U.S. 2003, 04/06. Provides selected data from the Census Bureau's Annual General Finance and Employment Surveys. Data presented include police protection, judicial and legal services, and corrections expenditure and employment for Federal, State, and local governments in 2003 and national trend data for 1982 to 2003. NCJ 212260
Justice Expenditure and Employment Extracts series, Presents data from the Census Bureau's Annual Government Finance Survey and Annual Survey of Public Employment. This series includes national and State-by-State estimates of government expenditures and employment for the following justice categories: police protection, all judicial (including prosecution, courts, and public defense), and corrections. Federal data for the same categories are also included, as are data for the very largest local governments (counties with populations of 500,000 or more and cities with populations of 300,000 or more)
Justice Variable Passthrough Data, 1997, 11/01. Presents the variable passthrough (VPT) data used to calculate the amounts States distribute to their local governments under the Edward Byrne Memorial State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance Programs. NCJ 190359 Juvenile Delinquents in the Federal Criminal Justice System, 2/97. Describes juvenile offenders processed in the Federal criminal justice system, including the number of juveniles charged with acts of delinquency, the offenses for which they were charged, the proportion adjudicated delinquent, and the sanctions imposed. NCJ 163066 Juvenile Felony Defendants in Criminal Courts: State Court Processing Statistics, 1990-94 9/98. Presents findings from the 1990, 1992, and 1994 State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) program, as well as juvenile court data collected by the National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJ). NCJ 165815 Juvenile Felony Defendants in Criminal Courts: Survey of 40 Counties, 1998 5/03. Discusses the increase in violent juvenile crime experienced during the early and mid-1990s, which prompted States to modify the way their justice systems handle juvenile offenders. NCJ 197961 Juveniles Prosecuted in State Criminal Court, 3/97. Presents findings from the 1994 BJS National Survey of Prosecutors and other BJS statistical series, as well as data collected by the National Center for Juvenile Justice on juveniles proceeded against in State criminal courts. NCJ 164265 Juvenile Victimization and Offending, 1993-2003 8/05. Presents findings about violent crime committed against or by juveniles from 1993 to 2003. NCJ 209468 |
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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, 2000: Data for Individual State and Local Agencies with 100 or More Officers, 04/04. Compiled from the 2000 LEMAS survey, this report presents agency-specific data collected from more than 755 local agencies and 49 State agencies that employed 100 or more sworn officers. NCJ 203350
Lifetime Likelihood of Going to State or Federal Prison, 3/97. Describes characteristics of persons admitted to prison for the first time, compares lifetime and one-day prevalence rates, considers changes in admission rates since 1991, and discusses the estimation techniques. NCJ 160092 Linking Uniform Crime Reporting Data to Other Datasets, 5/01. Outlines the contents and uses of the new Law Enforcement Agency Identifiers Crosswalk file. NCJ 185233 Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Program, 1996-2004, 09/04. Outlines how the formulas are calculated under the LLEBG Program to make funds available to local governments for reducing crime and improving public safety. NCJ 203096 Local Police Departments, 2003, 4/06. Presents data collected from a representative sample of local police department nationwide on a variety of agency characteristics based on the 2003 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey. NCJ 210118 Local Police Departments 2000, 01/03. NCJ 196002 |
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Medical Causes of Death in State Prisons, 2001-2004, 01/07. Describes the specific medical conditions causing deaths in State prisons nationwide during a four-year period. NCJ 216340 Medical Examiners and Coroners' Offices, 2004, 06/07. Presents key findings from the 2004 Census of Medical Examiners and Coroners’ (ME/C) Offices. NCJ 216756 Medical Malpractice Insurance Claims in Seven States, 2000-2004, 03/07. Focuses on medical malpractice claims that were closed in the states of Florida, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nevada, and Texas from 2000 to 2004. NCJ 216339 Medical Malpractice Trials and Verdicts in Large Counties, 2001, 04/04. Presents findings on medical malpractice cases disposed of by jury and bench trial in general jurisdiction courts in the Nation's 75 largest counties during 2001. NCJ 203098 Medical Problems of Inmates, 1997, 1/01. Presents survey data on offenders who were in prison who reported a medical problem since admission or a physical impairment or mental condition. NCJ 181644 Medical Problems of Jail Inmates, 11/06. Presents findings on jail inmates who reported a current medical problem, a physical or mental impairment, or an injury since admission based on data from the 2002 Survey of Inmates in Local Jails. NCJ 210696 Medical Problems of Prisoners, 4/08. Presents findings on state and federal prisoners who reported a current medical problem, a physical or mental impairment, a dental problem, or an injury since admission based on data from the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities. This document is web only. NCJ 221740 Mental Health and Treatment of Inmates and Probationers, 7/99. Presents survey data on offenders who were in prison or jail or on probation and who reported prior treatment for a mental or emotional problem. NCJ 174463 Mental Health Treatment in State Prisons, 2000, 7/01. Reports on facility policies related to screening of inmates at intake, conducting psychiatric or psychological evaluations, and providing treatment (including 24-hour mental health care, therapy/counseling, and use of psychotropic medications) in State prisons. NCJ 188215 Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates, 9/06. Presents estimates of the prevalence of mental health problems among prison and jail inmates using self-reported data on recent history and symptoms of mental disorders. NCJ 213600 Money Laundering Offenders, 1994-2001, 7/03. Describes the criminal case processing of money laundering defendants in the Federal criminal justice system. NCJ 199574 Murder in Families, 7/94. This BJS Special Report is a survey of murder cases disposed in 1988 in the courts of large urban counties. NCJ 143498 Murder in Large Urban Counties, 1988, 5/93. Represents almost 10,000 prosecuted murder defendants and more than 8,000 murder victims in the Nation's 75 most populous counties in 1988--about half of the Nation's murder arrestees for that year and just under half of the murder victims. NCJ 140614 |
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National Conference on Criminal History Records--Brady and Beyond: Proceedings of a BJS/SEARCH Group Conference, 1/95. Includes presentations made by the speakers at the National Conference on Criminal History Records in Washington, D.C., in February 1994. NCJ 151263 National Conference on Juvenile Justice Records: Appropriate Criminal and Noncriminal Justice Uses -- Proceedings of a BJS/SEARCH Conference, 5/97. Contains the presentations of speakers at the May 1996 conference on collection and use of juvenile records sponsored by BJS and SEARCH. NCJ 164269 National Conference on Sex Offender Registries, 5/98. Contains presentations and materials on issues related to criminal record data quality, identification, domestic violence, and sex offenders by Federal, State, and local governmental representatives, administrators, and researchers. NCJ 168965 National Corrections Reporting Program, 10/05. Collects data annually on prison admissions and releases and on parole entries and discharges in participating jurisdictions. Demographic information, conviction offenses, sentence length, minimum time to be served, credited jail time, type of admission, type of release, and time served are collected from individual prisoner records. Electronic only (spreadsheets in zip archives). Annual releases, 1993 through 2000.
National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact: Resource Materials, 1/98. Presents a section-by-section analysis of procedures for interstate exchange of criminal history records for noncriminal justice purposes such as background checks on persons seeking positions of responsibility involving national security, employment with children or the elderly. NCJ 171671 National Crime Victimization Survey, 1995: Preliminary Findings, 9/96. Reports in a press release on the 1995 preliminary National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) findings that nonfatal crimes of violence and theft in the Nation declined by almost 7 percent in 1995, almost 3 million fewer offenses than in 1994. NCJ 162603 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Redesign: Press Release, 10/30/94. Provides basic findings on the first data for 1993 from the NCVS, comparing levels and rates of crime in 1993 versus 1992. NCJ 151169 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Redesign: Fact Sheet, 10/94. Summarizes the redesign of the National Crime Victimization Survey. NCJ 151170 National Crime Victimization Survey Redesign: Technical Background, 10/94. Explains changes in the questionnaire and survey procedures and shows the impact on findings of the redesign. NCJ 151172 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Redesign: Questions & Answers, 10/94. Provides answers to frequently asked questions about the redesign. NCJ 151171 National Data Collection on Police Use of Force, 4/96. Summarizes prior research on police use of force and lists the difficulties inherent in collecting use-of-force data, including definitional problems, reluctance of police agencies to provide reliable data, concerns about the misapplication of reported data, and the degree of detail needed on individual incidents. NCJ 160113 National Sex Offender Registry Assistance Program (NSOR-AP), Fiscal Year 1988 Program Announcement, 3/98. Announces a grant program for the States in support of the President's goal of establishing an effective national registry of convicted sex offenders. NCJ 169273 The Nation's Two Crime Measures. Describes the purposes and advantages of the Uniform Crime Reports of the FBI and the National Crime Victimization Survey of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. NCJ 122705 Noncitizens in the Federal Criminal Justice System, 1984-94, 8/96. Describes noncitizens processed in the Federal justice system, including the number prosecuted and incarcerated from 1984 to 1994, the offenses for which they were prosecuted, and the sanctions imposed. NCJ 160934 |
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Offenders Returning to Federal Prison, 1986-97, 9/00. Describes offenders returning to Federal prison within 3 years of release and their time served upon return. NCJ 182991 |
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Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children, 8/08. Presents data from the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities about inmates who were parents and their minor children. NCJ 222984 Perceptions of Neighborhood Crime, 1995, 4/98. Presents data from the American Housing Survey (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) and the BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) about how residents perceive crime in their neighborhoods and their relative likelihood of victimization. NCJ 165811 Performance Measures for the Criminal Justice System, 10/93. This compendium of Discussion Papers represents the work of the BJS-Princeton University Study Group on Criminal Justice Performance Measures. NCJ 143505 Police Departments in Large Cities, 1990-2000, 05/02. Describes trends from 1990 to 2000 among local police departments serving U.S. cities with 250,000 or more residents. NCJ 175703 Police Use of Force, 11/97. Reports the results of the Police-Public Contact Survey and describes a project to acquire use of force data from law enforcement agencies. NCJ 165040 Policing and Homicide, 1976-98: Justifiable Homicide of Felons by Police and Murder of Police by Felons, 03/01. Presents annual trends from 1976 to 1998 in two types of homicide: justifiable homicides of felons by police, and murders of police officers by felons. NCJ 180987 Presale Handgun Checks, the Brady Interim Period, 1994-98, 6/99. Provides a national estimate of the number of presale background checks conducted in connection with proposed firearm purchases, the number and percent of rejections, and the basis for the rejections. NCJ 175034 (Data on this subject after the Brady interim period are in Background Checks of Firearm Transfers, 1999)
Pretrial Release of Felony Defendants in State Courts, 11/07. Presents findings on the pretrial release phase of the criminal justice process using data collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the 75 largest U.S. counties in May during even-numbered years from 1990 to 2004. NCJ 214994 Pretrial Release of Felony Defendants, 1992: National Pretrial Reporting Program, 11/94. Presents data on the pretrial release phase of the criminal justice process using data collected from a representative sample of felony cases filed in the 75 largest U.S. counties in May 1992. NCJ 148818
Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001, 08/03. Presents estimates of the number of living persons in the United States, 1974 to 2001, who have ever been to State or Federal prison. NCJ 197976 Prior Abuse Reported by Inmates and Probationers, 4/99. Describes prior physical and sexual abuse reported by persons in prison, in jail, or on probation. NCJ 172879 Prison and Jail Inmates, 1995, 8/96. Reports that at the end of 1995, there were almost 1.6 million men and women in the Nation's jails and prisons. NCJ 161132 Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2006, 6/07. Presents data on prison and jail inmates collected from National Prisoner Statistics counts and the Annual Survey of Jails, 2006. NCJ 217675 (For 2007 data, see Prison Inmates at Midyear 2007 and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2007)
Prison Inmates at Midyear 2007, 6/08. Presents data on prisoners under jurisdiction of federal or state correctional authorities on June 30, 2007, collected from the National Prisoner Statistics series. NCJ 221944 (See also Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear.) Prison Sentences and Time Served for Violence, 4/95. Presents the time served by violent offenders released from State prisons in 1992; estimates the hypothetical impact on time served of changing the percentage of sentence served; and discusses how the States differ in percentage of sentence served. NCJ 153858 Prisoner Petitions Filed in U.S. District Courts, 2000, with Trends 1980-2000, 12/01. Presents the number of prisoner petitions filed by Federal and State inmates in U.S. district courts during 2000. NCJ 189430 Prisoner Petitions in the Federal Courts, 1980-96, 10/97. Describes the increase in petitions filed in Federal courts (both U.S. district and U.S. appellate) by Federal and State inmates from 1980 to 1995, as well as the high dismissal rate and the low success rate. NCJ 164615 Prisoners at Midyear 1995, 12/95. This press release reports that the number of persons in State and Federal prisons grew almost 90,000 during the 12 months before June 30, 1995, when the total inmate population reached 1,104,074. NCJ 158021
Prisoners in 2007, 12/08. Presents data on prisoners under jurisdiction of federal or state correctional authorities on December 31, 2007, collected from the National Prisoner Statistics series. NCJ 224280
Privacy and Juvenile Justice Records: A Mid-Decade Status, 5/97. A comprehensive and broad overview of the status of juvenile justice records and information systems as of 1995, as well as an analysis of related information and privacy issues. NCJ 161255 Probation and Parole in the United States, 2007 - Statistical Tables, 12/08. Presents the number of persons on probation and parole at yearend 2007, by state, with percent changes in each state during the year. NCJ 224707
Probation and Parole Violators in State Prison, 1991, 8/95. Focuses on prisoners whose probation or parole was revoked using data from the 1991 Survey of State Prison Inmates, and provides details on offenses, types of violations, time served on probation/parole, time expected to serve, guns, alcohol and drug use, and personal characteristics. NCJ 149076 Profile of Inmates in the U.S. and in England and Wales, 1991, 10/94. Compares findings from the 1991 prison inmate survey in England and Wales with data from the BJS surveys of inmates in local jails and in State prisons and the U.S. Bureau of Prisons survey of Federal prisoners. NCJ 145863 Profile of Jail Inmates, 2002, 7/04. Describes the characteristics of jail inmates in 2002, including offenses, conviction status, criminal histories, sentences, time served, drug and alcohol use and treatment, and family background. Characteristics of jail inmates include gender, race, and Hispanic origin. NCJ 201932
Profile of Nonviolent Offenders Exiting State Prisons, 05/02. Provides a description of the general characteristics of prison populations serving time for nonviolent crimes as they exit State prisons. NCJ 207081 Profile of State Prisoners under Age 18, 1985-97, 2/00. Presents trend data from 1985 to 1997 on persons under 18 in State prison, focusing primarily on persons admitted to prison under the age of 18: their demographic characteristics, offenses, average sentence length, and expected time served. NCJ 176989 Prosecutors in State Courts, 2005, 07/06. Presents findings from the 2005 National Survey of Prosecutors, the latest in a series of data collections about the Nation's 2,300 State court prosecutors’ offices that tried felony cases in State courts of general jurisdiction. NCJ 213799
Public Attitudes Toward Uses of Criminal History Information, 7/01. Presents the results of the first national survey of public attitudes towards use of criminal history information for a variety of purposes. NCJ 187663 Punitive Damage Awards in Large Counties, 2001, 03/05. Presents findings on civil trials concluded in 2001 in the Nation's 75 largest counties that produced a punitive damage award. NCJ 208445 |
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Rape and Sexual Assault: Reporting to Police and Medical Attention, 1992-2000, 8/02. Presents information on the consequences of rape and sexual assault for female victims. The study provides the percentages of completed rape, attempted rape, and sexual assault of females that were reported to the police in 1992-2000. NCJ 194530 Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994, 6/02. Reports on the rearrest, reconviction, and reincarceration of former inmates who were tracked for 3 years after their release from prisons in 15 States in 1994. NCJ 193427 Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1983, 4/89. NCJ 116261 Recidivism of Sex Offenders Released from Prison in 1994, 11/03. Presents, for the first time, data on the rearrest, reconviction, and reimprisonment of 9,691 male sex offenders, including 4,295 child molesters, who were tracked for 3 years after their release from prisons in 15 States in 1994. NCJ 198281 Reconciling Federal Criminal Case Processing: A Federal Justice Statistics Program Methodology Report, 9/99. Summarizes the technical work underlying the conclusions of the Interagency Working Group on Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics. NCJ 171680 Reentry Trends in the United States,(Acrobat file 191K), 10/02. Printable version of the website section (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/reentry/reentry.htm) that summarizes the latest BJS data concerning inmates returning to the community after serving time in State or Federal prison. This site is updated as new data become available. Report of the National Task Force on Federal Legislation Imposing Reporting Requirements and Expectations on the Criminal Justice System, 8/00. Describes the findings and recommendations of the Task Force which was sponsored by BJS and SEARCH. The report recommends greater involvement of the courts in the development of data systems and that greater consideration be given to the demands which implementing new legislative strategies impose on the judiciary system. NCJ 183458 Report of the National Task Force on Privacy, Technology and Criminal Justice Information, 8/01. Reports on the findings and recommendations of a BJS/SEARCH supported Task Force on Privacy, Technology and Criminal Justice Information. NCJ 187669 Reporting by Prosecutors' Offices to Repositories of Criminal History Records, 6/05. Examines the reporting of case dispositions by State court prosecutors to State criminal history repositories. NCJ 205334 Reporting Crime to the Police, 03/03. Presents National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data from 1992 to 2000 on non-lethal crimes against persons age 12 or older that were reported to police. NCJ 195710
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School Crime, 1991, 9/91. Analyzes the experiences of U.S. students in grades 6-12 regarding crime victimization at school, the availability of illicit substances, gang presence, fear of crime, and school security measures. NCJ 131645
Sentencing in the Federal Courts: Does Race Matter? The Transition to
Sentencing Guidelines, 1986-90, 12/93. This discussion paper analyzes
the factors that affect sentencing determinations under the Federal Sentencing
Guidelines. Sex Differences in Violent Victimization, 1994, 9/97. Contains detailed information about specific violent crime types and contextual characteristics of violence against both women and men and their relationship to those who victimize them. NCJ 164508 Sex Offenses and Offenders, 2/97. Reports on more than two dozen statistical datasets maintained by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and on data from the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program of the FBI to provide a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about the incidence and prevalence of violent victimization by sexual assault, the response of the criminal justice system to such crimes, and the characteristics of those who commit sexual assault or rape. NCJ 163392 Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement: Victim, Incident, and Offender Characteristics 7/00. Presents findings from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) regarding sexual assault, especially of young children. NCJ 182990 Sexual Victimization in Local Jails Reported by Inmates, 2007, 6/08. Presents data from the 2007 National Inmate Survey (NIS), conducted in 282 local jails between April and December, with a sample of 40,419 inmates. NCJ 221946 Sexual Victimization in State and Federal Prisons Reported by Inmates, 2007, 12/07. Presents data from the National Inmate Survey, 2007, conducted in 146 State and Federal prisons between April and August 2007, with a sample of 23,398 inmates. NCJ 219414 Sexual Victimization of College Women, 12/00. A joint report from BJS and the National Institute of Justice which explores the prevalence and nature of sexual assault occurring at colleges throughout the nation. NCJ 182369 Sexual Violence Reported by Correctional Authorities, 2006, 8/07. Presents data from the Survey on Sexual Violence, 2006, an administrative records collection of incidents of inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate sexual violence reported to correctional authorities. NCJ 218914
Sexual Violence Reported by Juvenile Correctional Authorities, 2005-06, 7/08. Presents data from the 2005 and 2006 Survey on Sexual Violence, an administrative records collection of incidents required under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (Public Law 108-79) of youth-on-youth and staff-on-youth sexual violence reported to juvenile correctional authorities. NCJ 215337 Sheriffs' Offices, 2003, 04/06. Based on the 2003 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, presents data collected from a representative sample of sheriffs' offices nationwide on a variety of agency characteristics. NCJ 211361 Sheriffs' Offices 2000, 01/03. NCJ 196534 Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 2003, 9/05. Presents a broad spectrum of criminal justice data from more than 100 sources in 6 sections. NCJ 208756
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Murder Defendants in Large Urban Counties, 10/95. Discusses how
State prosecutors, judges, and juries handled two types of murder cases
(husbands killing wives and wives killing husbands) and gives specific
case histories, describing each case and its outcome. NCJ 153256 Stalking Victimization in the United States, 1/09. Presents findings on nonfatal stalking victimization in the U.S., based on the largest data collection of such behavior to date. NCJ 224527 State-Funded Indigent Defense Services, 1999, 09/01. Presents findings from data collected as part of the 1999 National Survey of Indigent Defense Systems in the 21 States where the State government provides virtually all of the funding for indigent defense services. NCJ 188464 State-Level Statistical Analysis Center and Information Network Program, 6/96. Provides information for applying for Fiscal 1996 grants for partial support to State governments for the establishment and operation of State Statistical Analysis Centers (SAC's) to collect, analyze, and disseminate statistics on crime and justice to Federal, State and local levels of government, and to share state-level information nationally. NCJ 161134 State and Federal Corrections Information Systems, 8/98. Reports on a recently completed inventory of information systems in State and Federal departments of adult corrections. The inventory establishes a basis for improving the capacity to provide comparable data and to facilitate cross-jurisdictional research. NCJ 170016 State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2002, 1/05. Presents data on personnel, facilities and resources, trainees, and training curricula of law enforcement academies in the United States, from the 2002 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies. NCJ 204030 State Court Organization, 1987-2004, 10/07. Presents trend data from State Court Organization data collections covering the years 1987-2004. NCJ 217996 State Court Organization 2004, 8/06. Presents detailed comparative data by State trial and appellate courts in the United States. NCJ 212351
State Court Processing of Domestic Violence Cases, 2/08. Examines the processing of domestic violence (DV) and non-domestic violence (non-DV) cases filed in May 2002 in 15 large urban counties. NCJ 214993 State Court Prosecutors in Large Districts, 2001, 12/01. Presents data from the 2001 National Survey of Prosecutors (NSP) on all chief prosecutors that served districts with a population of 500,000 or more and handled felony cases in State courts of general jurisdiction. NCJ 191206 State Court Prosecutors in Small Districts, 2001, 01/03. Presents results from the 2001 National Survey of Prosecutors (NSP), which collected data on all chief prosecutors that handled felony cases in State courts of general jurisdiction. The report covers prosecutor's offices that served a district with less than 250,000 population. NCJ 196020 State Court Sentencing of Convicted Felons Presents detailed findings from nationally representative sample survey of felons convicted in State courts, with tables on the number of felony offenders in State courts, the sentences they received, demographic characteristics of convicted felons, the number of felons sentenced to probation, the number of felons convicted by trial and guilty plea, and the amount of time required to process felony conviction cases.
State Drug Resources: 1994 National Directory, 10/94. Provides a comprehensive guide to State agencies that address drug abuse concerns. NCJ 147709 State Prison Expenditures, 2001, 06/04. Presents comparative data on the cost of operating the Nation's State prisons. The study is based on institutional corrections elements of the Fiscal 2001 Survey of Government Finances which State budget officers reported to the U.S. Census Bureau. NCJ 202949
State Use of Incident-Based Crime Statistics, 2/99. Describes the States' publication and dissemination of incident-based data, focusing on the presentation of criminal statistics in tabular form. NCJ 173941 Students' Report of School Crime: 1989 and 1995, 4/98. Compares findings from the 1989 and 1995 School Crime Supplements to the BJS National Crime Victimization Survey, discussing student reports of victimization, drug availability, street gang presence, and gun presence at school. NCJ 169607 Substance Abuse and Treatment of Adults on Probation, 1995, 3/98. Presents data from the 1995 Survey of Adults on Probation concerning probationers' use of alcohol and illegal drugs and substance abuse treatment they received. NCJ 166611 Substance Abuse and Treatment of State and Federal Prisoners, 1997, 1/99. Presents data from the 1997 Survey of Inmates in Adult State and Federal Correctional Facilities concerning prisoners' use of alcohol and illegal drugs and the substance abuse treatment they received. NCJ 172871 Substance Dependence, Abuse, and Treatment of Jail Inmates, 2002, 7/05. Presents data from the 2002 Survey of Inmates in Local Jails on inmates’ prior use, dependence, and abuse of alcohol and illegal drugs and provides data on types of substance abuse treatment or other programs reported by jail inmates. NCJ 209588 Suicide and Homicide in State Prisons and Local Jails, 8/05. Describes historical trends in State prison and local jail inmate mortality rates based on inmate death records submitted by local jails (for 2000-2002) and State prisons (for 2001-2002). NCJ 210333 Summary of Human Subjects Protection Issues Related to Large Sample Surveys, 6/01. Identifies best practices to ensure that large sample surveys, particularly the National Crime Victimization Survey, are ethically sound and compliant. NCJ 187692 Summary of State Sex Offender Registries, 2001, 03/02. Presents information on the location of the State registries, number of offenders in the registries; their level of automation and capability to receive, store, and transmit fingerprints; whether DNA samples are included in registration procedures; and community notification procedures including use of the Internet to post information on registered offenders. NCJ 192265 Summary of State Sex Offender Registries Dissemination and Procedures: Update 1999, 8/99. Describes the procedures for disseminating sex offender registry information to criminal justice agencies, schools and other youth-serving organizations, and the general public. This report updates the "Dissemination of Sex Offender Registry Data" section of the Summary of State Sex Offender Registries: Automation and Operation 1998. NCJ 177620 Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories, 2001, 1/02. Reports findings from a survey of publicly operated forensic crime labs that perform Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) testing. NCJ 191191
Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2006, 10/08. Describes the status of state criminal history records systems as of yearend 2006. NCJ 246866
Survey of State Prison Inmates, 1991, 3/93. Presents data about State prison inmates: their background and families, criminal histories, gang membership, drug and alcohol use, HIV/AIDS infection, gun use and possession, sentence, time served, and participation in prison programs. NCJ 136949 Survey of State Procedures Related to Firearm Sales, 2005, 11/06. Provides an overview of the firearm check procedures in each of the States and their interaction with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) operated by the FBI. NCJ 214645
Survey of State Records Included in Presale Background Checks: Mental Health Records, Domestic Violence Misdemeanor Records, and Restraining Orders, 2003, 8/04. Examines the quality and accessibility of certain criminal and noncriminal records when States conduct a firearm presale background check. NCJ 206042 |
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Third-Party Involvement in Violent Crime, 1993-99, 7/02. Presents detailed information about third-party involvement in violent crime, using the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). NCJ 189100 Time Served in Prison by Federal Offenders, 1986-97, 6/99. Describes changes in sentences imposed and time served brought about by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 by cohorts of offenders entering and exiting Federal prison between 1986 and 1997. NCJ 171682 Tort Cases in Large Counties: Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 1992, 4/95. Reports findings of a study of a representative sample of tort cases in the 75 largest counties. NCJ 153177 Tort Trials and Verdicts in Large Counties, 2001, 11/04. Provides findings about tort cases disposed of by jury and bench trial in general jurisdiction courts in the Nation's 75 largest counties during 2001. NCJ 206240
Traffic Stop Data Collection Policies for State Police, 2004, 6/05. Presents findings from the 2004 Survey of State Police Agencies on policies and procedures for collecting race and ethnicity data regarding motorists involved in traffic stops. NCJ 209156
Trends in Juvenile Violence and the 1997 Update, 11/97. This report and its update were produced under a Bureau of Justice Statistics grant to Dr. James A. Fox, School of Criminal Justice Northeastern University. the original report is based on Dr. Fox's briefing of the Attorney General in 1995 and discusses demographic trends and their impact on crime. It concludes that the growth in juvenile population in the next decade will cause a dramatic increase in the level of juvenile violence. NCJ 170379 and 170377 Trends in State Parole, 1990-2000, 10/01. Examines the changing nature of offenders entering and leaving parole and the effects on the trends and composition of the prison population. NCJ 184735 Tribal Law Enforcement, 2000, 01/03. Presents information on the characteristics of tribally operated law enforcement agencies in the United States, including personnel, services, and functions. NCJ 197936 Truth in Sentencing in State Prisons, 1/99. Describes the development and use of truth-in-sentencing (TIS) laws and presents data on the growing number of States that have adopted TIS and the increasing amount of time offenders are serving in State prison. NCJ 170032 |
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Unidentified Human Remains in the United States, 1980-2004, 11/07. Examines the number of unidentified persons reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC), National Death Index (NDI). NCJ 219533 Urban, Suburban, and Rural Victimization, 1993-98, 10/00. Examines the extent of criminal victimization in urban, suburban, and rural areas using 1993 to 1998 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data. NCJ 182031 Use and Management of Criminal History Record Information: A Comprehensive Report, 2001 Update, 12/01. Contains a comprehensive description of all aspects of the Federal and State criminal history record information (CHRI) systems. NCJ 187670 Use and Management of Criminal History Record Information: A Comprehensive Report, 11/93. NCJ 143501 Use of Force By Police: Overview of National and Local Data, 10/99. This joint report by the National Institute of Justice and BJS presents findings on the extent and nature of police use of force, discusses the difficulties in establishing measurement guidelines, illuminates circumstances under which force is applied, and provides a general framework for future research on excessive displays of force. NCJ 176330 |
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Veterans in State and Federal Prison, 2004, 5/07. Presents data on the military and criminal backgrounds of incarcerated veterans, uses new measures to describe their substance abuse and dependence histories, and provides a detailed measure of their mental health problems. NCJ 217199 Other publications on this topic: Víctimas Hispanas de Crímenes Violentos, 1993-2000/Hispanic Victims of Violent Crime, 1993-2000, 04/02. Examines violent crimes committed against Hispanic victims including rape, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault. Crime victimizations of Hispanics are compared with those of four non-Hispanic groups: whites, blacks, American Indians, and Asians. NCJ 191208 Violence-Related Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments, 8/97. Presents findings from a study of violence-related injuries treated in hospital emergency departments in 1994. NCJ 156921 Violence Against Women: Estimates from the Redesigned National Crime Victimization Survey, 8/95. The first release of the 1992-93 estimates of violence against women after an extended effort to improve the victimization survey's ability to measure violence against women. NCJ 154348 Violence and Theft in the Workplace, 7/94. Profiles victims of workplace crime and discusses the extent to which workplace violence occurs, offender weapon use, victim/offender relationship, and the extent of injury and time lost from work resulting from these crimes. NCJ 148199 Violence between Intimates, 11/94. Examines murders, rapes, robberies, and assaults committed by spouses, ex-spouses, boyfriends, or girlfriends, using data from a variety of sources. NCJ 149259 Violence by Gang Members, 1993-2003 06/05. Provides estimates of the number and rate of violent crimes committed by offenders that victims perceived to be members of gangs based on National Crime Victimization Survey data. NCJ 208875 Violence by Intimates, 3/98. Reports findings about violence between people who have an intimate relationship -- spouses, exspouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, and former boyfriends and girlfriends from statistical data maintained by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. NCJ 167237 Violence in the Workplace, 1993-99, 12/01. Presents data for 1993 through 1999 from the National Crime Victimization Survey estimating the extent of workplace crime in the United States. NCJ 190076 Other publications on this topic: Violent Crime, 4/94. Summarizes 1973-92 trends in rape, robbery, and assault from the National Crime Victimization Survey; homicide data from Vital Statistics of the United States, National Center for Health Statistics; and 1992 murder data from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports. NCJ 147486 Violent Felons in Large Urban Counties, 8/06. Presents data collected from a representative sample of felony cases that resulted in a felony conviction for a violent offense in 40 of the Nation's 75 largest counties. NCJ 205289 Violent Offenders in State Prison: Sentences and Time Served--State Inmates, 1992-94, 7/95. Reports jurisdiction-level data on sentence length and time served for violent prison inmates who were admitted or released in 1992, 1993, and 1994. NCJ 154632 Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98, 3/01. Presents incidence estimates and per capita rates of violent victimization of whites, blacks, American Indians and Asians in 1998, and includes victimization trends, 1993-98. NCJ 176354 Violent Victimization of College Students, 1995-2002, 1/05. Examines the incidence of college student victimization and compares the findings to persons of similar ages in the general population. NCJ 206836
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Weapons Offenses and Offenders--Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Selected Findings, 11/95. Presents data on how the criminal and juvenile system deal with weapons offenses (violation of statutes or regulations that control deadly weapons) and offenders from arrest through incarceration. NCJ 155284 Weapon Use and Violent Crime, 1993-2001, 9/03. Discusses the nature and prevalence of violent crime by armed offenders, and the consequences to the victims, age 12 or older, from 1993 through 2001. NCJ 194820 What is the sequence of events in the criminal justice system?, 1/98. Both electronic and paper versions of the flowchart of the events in the criminal justice system with explanatory text that updates the original chart prepared by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice in 1967. NCJ 165361, NCJ 168630, and NCJ 168629 Women in Prison, 3/94. Examines demographic characteristics, current offenses, criminal histories, and the victims of violent female inmates from the 1991 BJS survey of State prison inmates. NCJ 145321
Women Offenders, 12/99. Examines offending by adult women and their handling by the criminal justice system. NCJ 175688 Workplace Violence, 1992-96, 7/98. Presents data for 1992 through 1996 from the National Crime Victimization Survey estimating the extent of workplace crime in the United States. NCJ 168634 Also see Violence in the Workplace, 1993-99 The World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems, 06/03. This factbook, developed under a BJS grant, provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of countries around the world. |
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Young Black Male Victims, 12/94. Presents information about black male crime victims ages 12 to 24 including the extent and characteristics of their victimization, such as weapon use, injury, and offender characteristics, and summarizes data about the reporting of crimes to police by this age group. NCJ 147004 |
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