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The Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) provides comprehensive and detailed information about the federal justice system's processing of criminal cases. The FJSP provides annual data on workload, activities, and outcomes associated with federal criminal cases. Information is acquired on all aspects of processing in the federal justice system, including arrests, prosecution decisions, referrals to magistrates, court dispositions, sentencing outcomes, sentence length, and time served. Seven stages of federal criminal case processing are within the scope of the FJSP, from arrest to incarceration and supervision of convicted offenders:

• Arrest refers to the arrest of a suspect by a federal law enforcement agency.
• Prosecution refers to the investigation of criminal matters.
• Pretrial release includes the release and detention of defendants before adjudication.
• Adjudication covers the criminal court proceedings through case disposition.
• Sentencing covers sentences imposed on convicted defendants.
• Appeals covers cases filed and terminated on appeals.
• Corrections includes offenders under supervision (i.e., probation, supervised release, or parole) and offenders in prison.

The FJSP receives the source data from the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA), Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC), and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). See the Federal Justice Statistics series for data covering 2005 through 2006. For prior years, see the Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics series.

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• Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP)

Publications & Products

Recidivism of Offenders Placed on Federal Community Supervision in 2005: Patterns from 2005 to 2010 Examines the offending patterns of persons on federal community supervision in 2005 by offender characteristics and prior criminal history.
	Press Release | Summary (PDF 263K) | PDF (592K) | ASCII file (43K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 22K)
Drug Offenders in Federal Prisons: Estimates of Characteristics Based on Linked Data Presents a description of drug offenders in federal prison, including criminal history, demographics, gun involvement in the offense, and sentence imposed.
	Press Release | Summary (PDF 223K) | PDF (499K) | ASCII file (24K) | Comma-delimted format (Zip format 14KB)
Drug Offenders in Federal Prisons: Estimates of Characteristics Based on Linked Data MORE THAN HALF OF DRUG OFFENDERS IN FEDERAL PRISON WERE SERVING SENTENCES FOR POWDER OR CRACK COCAINE
	Press Release
Federal Sentencing Disparity: 2005-2012 Examines patterns of federal sentencing disparity among white and black offenders, by sentence received, and looks at judicial variation in sentencing since Booker v. United States, regardless of race.
	Summary (PDF 20K) | PDF (1.5M) | ASCII file (135K) | BJS Working Paper Series (Other)
Federal Justice Statistics, 2012 - Statistical Tables Describes the annual activity, workloads, and outcomes associated with the federal criminal justice system from arrest to imprisonment, using data from the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA), Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
	PDF (2.6M) | ASCII file (43K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 65K) Part of the Federal Justice Statistics Series
Federal Justice Statistics, 2011 - Statistical Tables Provides annual data on workload, activities, and outcomes associated with federal criminal cases.
	PDF (2.7M) | ASCII file (65K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 67K) Part of the Federal Justice Statistics Series
Federal Justice Statistics, 2011–12 Describes the annual activity, workloads, and outcomes associated with the federal criminal justice system from arrest to imprisonment, using data from the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA), Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), and Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
	PDF (3.7M) | ASCII file (59k) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 50K) Part of the Federal Justice Statistics Series
Federal Justice Statistics, 2010 - Statistical Tables Describes criminal case processing in the federal justice system, including arrest and booking through sentencing and corrections.
	PDF (3.5M) | ASCII file (87K) | Spreadsheets (Zip format 88K) Part of the Federal Justice Statistics Series
Federal Justice Statistics, 2010 Describes the annual activity, workloads, and outcomes associated with the federal criminal justice system from arrest to imprisonment, using data from the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA), Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AOUSC), and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
	PDF (4.3M) | ASCII file (67K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Zip format 183K) Part of the Federal Justice Statistics Series
Pretrial Release and Misconduct in Federal District Courts, 2008-2010 Presents findings on pretrial release and misconduct among defendants in federal district courts for the combined fiscal years 2008. 2009, and 2010.
	Press Release | PDF (756K) | ASCII file (33K) | Comma-delimited format (CSV) (Spreadsheet 29K)

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Related Links

• Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service