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The Census of Public Defender Offices (CPDO), managed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics,  involves the collection of data from all state- and county-funded public defender offices across the country, including offices that are publicly funded but privately operated and offices that handle capital cases only. 

Find data collections and publications on indigent defense from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Bureau of Justice Statistics provides data describing state and county public defender programs.

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.

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.

Links to surveys and other data collections on inmates, probationers and parolees.

Provides definitions and data on homicide rates and trends.

Examines the provision of public defender services in the 22 states that had an entirely state-funded and state-administered indigent defense program.

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.

Provides statistics on firearm possession, theft and loss, and manufacture and export, as well as state-by-state data on firearm tracing.

Defines categories of robbery and links to reports providing statistics on robbery and other crimes.

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.

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.

Provides facts and data tables on parolees at risk of reincarceration and rearrests by type of crime.

Provides findings from the Supplemental Victimization Survey on stalking, including risk, consequences for victims and stalking behaviors.

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.

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.

Describes the National DNA Index and provides the numbers of offender profiles, arrestees, forensic profiles, participating laboratories and investigations aided in each state.

Describes trends in suicide and homicide rates in jails and prisons, using data from the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program.

Data collected on hate crimes includes motivation for the crimes, types of crimes, police response, use of weapons and characteristic of offenders.

To address the Act's data collection requirements, BJS developed a program involving five separate data collection efforts.

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.

The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program collects statistics on crime. Site includes data collected, publications and other resources.

Outlines types of drug-related crime, including possession, distribution and manufacture of drugs as well as other offenses stemming from drug use or addiction.

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.

Outlines FBI efforts to combat gang violence, including statistics on accomplishments such as arrests and convictions.