State Public Defender Programs, 2007 (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Examines the provision of public defender services in the 27 states and the District of Columbia in which indigent defense services were funded and administered by counties or local jurisdictions.
School-Associated Student Homicides - United States, 1992-2006, Centers for Disease Control
School Crime, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Indicators of School Crime and Safety, Department of Education and Bureau of Justice Statistics
Hate Crimes Reported in NIBRS, 1997-99 (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Data on hate crimes from the National Incident-Based Reporting Program, including offenses committed, motivation, presence and use of weapons, and characteristics of victims and offenders.
Hate Crimes Report by Victims and Police (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Data collected on hate crimes includes motivation for the crimes, types of crimes, police response, use of weapons and characteristic of offenders.
Hate Crime Statistics (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
FBI Civil Rights Program combats hate crime by investigating crimes, including cold cases; assisting and training state and local law enforcement; and conducting public outreach.
Rape and Sexual Violence (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Includes trends in the rates of rape and sexual assault, information on consequences for female victims, and a 1985 'profile' of rape based on 10 years of data on rape and attempted rape.
Gun Violence (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives)
Provides statistics on firearm possession, theft and loss, and manufacture and export, as well as state-by-state data on firearm tracing.
Weapon Use (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Addresses types of weapons used in various types of nonfatal violent crimes. Site also provides links to sources on crime-related firearm injury and death.
Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Information on victims, assailants and circumstances, broken down by state and region.
Law Enforcement (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Provides links to national data collections and surveys covering federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. Includes data on police-public contact, deaths in custody, human trafficking reporting and campus law enforcement agencies.
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Identity Theft Series (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Produces reports from 2004 to 2010 covering identity theft trends and consequences.
Violent Crimes (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Links to reports containing data on violent crime, including homicide; sexual violence; and crimes against youth, the elderly and persons with disabilities.
County-based and Local Public Defender Offices, 2007 (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Examines the provision of public defender services in the 22 states that had an entirely state-funded and state-administered indigent defense program.
Indigent Defense Systems (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Bureau of Justice Statistics provides data describing state and county public defender programs.
Census of Medical Examiner and Coroner (ME/C) Offices
Gangs (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Outlines FBI efforts to combat gang violence, including statistics on accomplishments such as arrests and convictions.
Workplace Injuries (BLS)
Human Trafficking (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Gangs (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Cybercrime (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Stalking/intimidation (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Assault (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Robbery (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Defines categories of robbery and links to reports providing statistics on robbery and other crimes.
Homicide (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Provides definitions and data on homicide rates and trends.
Drugs (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Outlines types of drug-related crime, including possession, distribution and manufacture of drugs as well as other offenses stemming from drug use or addiction.
United States Sentencing Commission
Courts (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
State and Local Data Collections and Surveys (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Links to surveys and other data collections on inmates, probationers and parolees.
Tribal justice agencies (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Provides data on tribally operated law enforcement agencies, including size, jurisdictions and practices.
Survey of DNA Crime Laboratories (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Survey provides data on personnel, budgets, workloads, equipment, procedures, policies and data processing in crime laboratories that perform DNA analysis.
Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
The Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories provides data on crime labs across the country, including the services they provide, the resources they use, and quality assurance measures.
National Incident-Based Reporting System
Uniform Crime Reports (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program collects statistics on crime. Site includes data collected, publications and other resources.
Crime Type (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Suicide and homicide in local jails and state prisons (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Describes trends in suicide and homicide rates in jails and prisons, using data from the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program.
Stalking statistics (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Provides findings from the Supplemental Victimization Survey on stalking, including risk, consequences for victims and stalking behaviors.
The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (CDC)
Victims & offenders (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Provides information on offenders who commit violent crime, obtained from the victims through the National Crime Victimization Survey. Information includes age, race, gender, relationship to the victim, whether the offender seemed to be drunk or on drugs, and whether the offender was a gang member.
Crime characteristics & trends (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Describes two types of crime (violent crime and property crime) and provides data on the rates and levels of various crimes, such as violent victimization by strangers and hate crimes.
State and federal prisoners and prison facilities (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Recidivism (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Provides facts and data tables on parolees at risk of reincarceration and rearrests by type of crime.
National DNA Database Statistics (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Describes the National DNA Index and provides the numbers of offender profiles, arrestees, forensic profiles, participating laboratories and investigations aided in each state.
State and local examples (Childwelfare.gov)
Fatalities (Childwelfare.gov)
Recurrence (Childwelfare.gov)
Abuse and neglect in out-of-home care (Childwelfare.gov)
Abuse and neglect of children with disabilities (Childwelfare.gov)
Sexual abuse (Childwelfare.gov)
Physical abuse (Childwelfare.gov)
Neglect (Childwelfare.gov)
National and State statistics (Childwelfare.gov)
Prison Rape Elimination Act (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
To address the Act's data collection requirements, BJS developed a program involving five separate data collection efforts.
Reentry Trends (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Tables and data showing trends in inmates' reintroduction into their communities. Includes information on releases from prisons, prison population growth, entries to parole, success rates and recidivism.
Victim characteristics (Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS))
Bureau of Justice Statistics site provides reports on characteristics of victims of crime, including female victims of sexual violence, youth victims of violent crime, persons with disabilities and households with children. Data are drawn from the National Crime Victimization Survey.