Sources for Criminal Justice Statistics
- FBI Uniform Crime ReportsThe UCR Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics from over 17,000 law enforcement agencies around the U.S.
- Criminal Justice & Criminology This link opens in a new windowAn historical overview of these ever-changing disciplines and their various expressions in American and English law over time. Collecting Bureau of Justice statistics, memoirs of retired Scotland Yard investigators, congressional hearings on drug control policies, accounts of prison life in days long past and much more, this collection explores how criminal justice has changed in America and the effect criminology has had on those changes. It collects government documents as well as rare or hard-to-find pamphlets, memoirs, and books written by ordinary law enforcement officers and not-so-famous criminals. To help users navigate the content spanning these two wide-reaching disciplines, all titles in this collection have been subject coded into 16 subject areas. Hein
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- Bureau of Justice StatisticsWith a mission to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, prisons, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government, the B of J provides data to federal, state, and local policymakers. Provides users with the software to create and customize tables
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Often times, each state will have their own criminal justice statistics center. Usually, these are published by the state's department of justice. Try typing in Google: *state name* and criminal justice statistics.