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Bureau of Justice Statistics
Press Releases from 1997
to 1998
This is a list of BJS press releases from 1997 to 1998 in chronological order, beginning
with the latest released during the period.
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- Criminal Victimization
1997: Changes 1996-97 with Trends 1993-97, 12/27/98: "Violent
crime fell almost 7 percent last year down more than 21 percent since
1993"
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- Capital Punishment 1997,
12/13/98: "Seventeen states executed 74 prisoners during 1997"
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- National Criminal History
Improvement Program grants, 10/9/98: "President Clinton announces
over $41 million to stop violent criminals from purchasing firearms. Grants
will improve criminal history records vital to National Check System.
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- Crime and Justice
in the United States and in England and Wales, 10/04/98: "New
report compares crime rates in the United States with rates in England
and Wales"
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- Probation and Parole
Populations, 1997, 8/16/98: "Nation's probation and parole
population reached new high last year"
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- German and American
Prosecutions: An Approach to Statistical Comparison, 8/9/98:
"Most serious crime rates far higher in the United States than in
Germany"
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- Prisoners in 1997,
8/2/98: "Nation's prison population increased by more than 5 percent
during 1997"
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- Workplace Violence,
1992-96, 7/26/98: "About 2 million people attacked or threatened
in the workplace every year"
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- Presale Handgun Checks,
1997, 6/21/98: "Presale background checks blocked an estimated
69,000 handgun sales last year"
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- Census of State and
Local Law Enforcement Agencies, 1996 6/7/98: "The number
of State and local law enforcement officers assigned to patrol and response
duties grew by 19 percent in four years"
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- Profile of Jail Inmates,
1996 4/26/98: "High levels of alcohol and drug dependence
common among nation's jail inmates"
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- Students' Reports
of School Crime: 1989 and 1995 4/12/98: "Joint Justice Department/Education
Department study shows little increase in school crime between 1989 and
1995"
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- Alcohol and Crime
4/5/98: "Four in ten criminal offenders report alcohol as a factor
in violence -- But alcohol-related deaths and consumption in decline"
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- Substance Abuse and
Treatment of Adults on Probation, 1995 3/22/98: "Almost
half of all probationers under the influence of alcohol or drugs when
committing their offense"
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- Violence by Intimates
3/16/98: "Murder by intimates declined 36 percent since 1976 - Decrease
greater for male than for female victims"
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- Federal Law Enforcement
Officers, 1996 1/25/98: "Federal Government employs 74,500
law officers"
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- Prison and Jail Inmates
at Midyear, 1997 1/18/98: "Nation's prisons and jails hold
more than 1.7 million: Up almost 100,000 in a year"
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- Capital
Punishment, 199612/14/97: "Prisoner
executions rise significantly"
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- Characteristics
of Adults on Probation, 1995 12/3/97: "Nearly three-quarters
of all probationers had some recent contact with their probation officers:
Almost 3.2 million adults on probation"
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- Police Use
of Force 11/22/97: "One in five U.S. residents in contact
with police during year"
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- Criminal
Victimization 1996: Changes 1995-96 with Trends 1993-96 11/15/97:
"Violent victimization fell 10% last year: Property crimes declined
8%"
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- Prisoner
Petitions in the Federal Courts, 1980-96 10/29/97: "State
and Federal prisoners filed 68,235 petitions in the United States Courts
during 1996"
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- Presale
Handgun Checks, 1996: A National Estimate 9/4/97: "Brady
Act background checks prevent 173,000 illegal handgun purchases since
February 1994 implementation: Handgun figure is subset of more than 250,000
firearm sales blocked since February 1994"
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- Violence-Related
Injuries Treated in Hospital Emergency Departments, 8/24/97:
"1.4 million people treated in hospital emergency rooms for violence-related
injuries: Approximately 17 percent injured by intimates"
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- Probation
and Parole Populations, 1996, 8/14/97: "Nation's probation
and parole population reached almost 3.9 million last year"
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- Census of
State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 1995, 8/7/97: "Prison
construction keeping pace with population growth"
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- Prisoners
in 1996, 6/22/97: "Nation's prison population increased
5 percent last year"
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- BJS Web
site revised and Sourcebook online is updated regularly, 5/2/97:
" Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics puts new crime
data on the Internet"
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- Changes
in Criminal Victimization, 1994-95, 4/13/97: "Violent crime
declined 12.4 percent during 1995 -- Largest drop in survey history"
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- Presale
Firearm Checks, 2/2/97: "About 6,600 attempts to buy guns
thwarted by background checks each month since Brady Law enacted -- 186,000
blocked from March 1994 through June 1996"
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- Sex Offenses
and Offenders, 2/2/97: "Sixty percent of convicted sex offenders
are on parole or probation -- Rapes and sexual assaults decline"
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- Prison and
Jail Inmates at Midyear 1996, 1/19/97: "Nation's jail and
prison incarceration rate almost doubled during last decade"
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- Felony Sentences
in State Courts, 1994, 1/12/97: "Almost a third of all convicted
State felons were sentenced for drug trafficking or possession"
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