Crime and Justice: Reports and Statistics

• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Including:
• Firearms Statistics information on taxes collected in FY2000 and FY2001.
• U.S. Bomb Data Center "furnishes statistical arson and explosive information to the public from several sources."
• Bureau of Justice Statistics publications menu features full-text publications about capital punishment, drugs, guns used in crime, women in prison, felony sentences and more.
• Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts provides data in .wk1 format on crime and arrest, criminal justice, corrections, and demographic data.
• Campus Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool Website This database from the Office of Postsecondary Education "was designed to provide rapid customized reports for public inquiries relating to campus crime data." By law, postsecondary institutions are expected to report all incidences of criminal homicide, manslaughter, sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, motor vehicle theft and arson. Institutions must also report hate crimes. Institutions are also required to report separate statistics for each campus and denote where the crime occurred. The statistics must also include arrests for illegal weapons possession and liquor and drug law violations, including the number of persons referred for campus disciplinary action for these violations.
• Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) (US Department of Justice) "Section attorneys advise federal prosecutors and law enforcement agents; comment upon and propose legislation; coordinate international efforts to combat computer crime; litigate cases; and train all law enforcement groups. Other areas of expertise possessed by CCIPS attorneys include encryption, electronic privacy laws, search and seizure of computers, e-commerce, hacker investigations, and intellectual property crimes."
• The Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm of Congress, prepares reports (usually under 20 pages long) on topics of interest to members of Congress. Search these CRS Reports CU through LexisNexis. Enter "crime and criminals", "crime prevention", "organized crime", or "law enforcement" as search terms.
• Crime Statistics by County available from USA Counties.
• Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry Coordinated by the U.S. Department of Justics, this Registry is a a cooperative effort between the state agencies and the federal government. Search for sex offenders by name, zip code, county, city, state, or nationally.
• Drug Enforcement Agency
  • Publications
• FBI Homepage includes:
• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
• Freedom of Information Act documents on Elvis Presley, Jackie Robinson, Klaus Barbie, John Lennon and others.
• Most Wanted
• Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) Statistics "UCR is a city, county, and state law enforcement program which provides a nationwide view of crime based on the submission of statistics by law enforcement agencies throughout the country." Offenses reported include 1) Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter, 2) Forcible Rape, 3) Robbery, 4) Aggravated Assault, 5) Burglary, 6) Larceny-Theft, 7) Motor Vehicle Theft, and 8) Arson. Since 1995, the UCR has also contained statistics on Hate Crimes. A separate publication includes data on Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted. With data on adult and juvenile arrests.
• Federal Bureau of Prisons includes directory of facilities, fact sheets with summary statistical data on federal prison populations by gender, race, ethnicity, age and other demographic characteristics.
• Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center Sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Urban Institute, this site allows you to find statistics on suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system.
• National Criminal Justice Reference System: Extensive data, publications, and links.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Database "The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research." The bibliographic database indexes and abstracts publications from the early 1970s to the present.
• NCRJS Virtual Library "Search Federal sources for crime and justice information, research, statistics, and funding opportunities."
• National Institute of Justice includes electronic versions of NIJ sponsored research publications on violence against women, gangs, and other criminal justice topics.
• Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) includes electronic publications on emerging victim issues, promising practices, policy development, and technical assistance and skill-building tools.
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) includes electronic publications of OJJDP sponsored research on juvenile offending and victimization, and the involvement of youth in the juvenile justice system.
  • Publications
  • Statistical Briefing Book (SBB)
• Schools
• Students' Report of School Crime: 1989 and 1995 "It compares findings from the 1989 and 1995 SCS on student reports of victimization, drug availability, street gang presence, and gun presence at school."
• Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools, 1996-1997 "The school violence survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 1,234 regular public elementary, middle, and secondary schools in the 50 states and the District of Columbia in the spring and summer of 1997."
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2006
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics data about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States includes over 600 tables.
• World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems from U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has information about 42 countries of the world. Each country profile includes information on the political and legal systems, history as it relates to the legal system, classification of crime, crime statistics, victims of crime, police, prosecutorial and judicial process, the judicial system, penalties and sentencing, prisons, and extradition.

• EUCPN (EU Crime Prevention Network)
• United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
  • Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
  • Crime Monitoring Surveys
• International Crime Victim Surveys (ICVS)
• Studies on Drugs and Crime
• United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems the goal of this survey is "is to collect data on the incidence of reported crime and the operations of criminal justice systems with a view to improving the analysis and dissemination of that information globally."

• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data: One-time free registration required to access data.
• Officer.com A gateway to information on crime and law enforcement. Includes links to national, state, and local law enforcement agencies.
• TRAC Database from Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University, includes "tens of thousands of pages of information about the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms -- has been compiled from a wide variety of sources". Requires registration for access. No fees.
• Uniform Crime Reports, 1990-present "This collection consists of four county-level data files. The first three provide arrests for Part I offenses (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, and arson) and for Part II offenses (forgery, fraud, embezzlement, vandalism, weapons violations, sex offenses, drug and alcohol abuse violations, gambling, vagrancy, curfew violations, and runaways). The fourth file provides reported offenses (as opposed to arrests) for Part I crimes only. Two county population variables are included : one for total county population and the other for counties reporting six months or more of data."

Resources in the Catalog

• The Library Catalog, Chinook
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  criminal statistics	criminal statistics
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