LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S.A. (Gov't Site)

Bureau of Justice Statistics
Archive of justice stats, great for CJ research. Includes statistics about criminal trials and prisons and other aspects of crime and law enforcement. There are numerous surveys containing data from a wide range of subjects and specific elements of the Justice System
BJS Corrections
The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) Corrections Unit maintains over 30 data collections. Most are annual collections of administrative data from correctional administrators, ranging from basic population counts and offender demographic characteristics to facility capacity, programs, staff, and resources
BJS Courts
The Prosecution and Adjudication Statistics Unit examines criminal and civil cases as they are processed through the judicial system, as well as the organizations that play key roles in the judicial process
BJS Crime Type
Containing two crime measures (National Crime Victimization Survey & FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports), BJS Crime Types examines statistics based on specific crime types
BJS Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program
The Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program works to fulfill BJS's mission of improving the criminal record-keeping of States and local governments while improving the ability of States and localities to produce statistics on crime and the administration of justice
BJS Employment and Expenditure
Every year since 1980, BJS has extracted justice expenditure and employment data from the Census Bureau's Annual Government Finance Survey and Annual Survey of Public Employment
BJS Federal Justice Statistics Program
The Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) provides comprehensive and detailed information about the federal justice system's processing of criminal cases
BJS Tribal Crime & Justice Statistics
This page serves as a data repository, ensuring these Tribal crime & justice statistics are easily located and accessible from a central source
BJS Law Enforcement
The BJS Law Enforcement Unit maintains more than a dozen national data collections covering federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and special topics in law enforcement
BJS Victims
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) collects information from victims on nonfatal violent and property crimes, reported and not reported to the police, against persons age 12 or older from a nationally representative sample of U.S. households. It produces national rates and levels of personal and property victimization
BJS World Factbook of Criminal Justice Statistics
This factbook, developed under BJS grants, provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of 45 countries around the world. The original 42 descriptions were completed in 1993. The latest 5 entries including two updated country profiles were prepared in 2002

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Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (University of Albany)
Contains a plethora of opinion polls and statistical analysis through a wide range of topics
United Nations Statistics (UN)
World Statistics in a number of databases hosted by the United Nations

Using the Bureau of Justice Statistics Guide

Guide to Using the Bureau of Justice Statistics
Click here to view the guide to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Here you will find a number of different links and directions to extract the information you need.

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