Criminology Data

 

Bureau of Justice Statistics http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/wlecome.htm

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice, is the United States’ primary source for criminal justice statistics. BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to Federal, State, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.

 

Corrections Statistics (Bureau of Justice Statistics) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/correct.htm

Contains statistical data sets on capital punishment, jails, prisons, probation and parole.

 

Courts and Sentencing Statistics (Bureau of Justice Statistics) www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/stssent.htm

Contains statistical data sets on pretrial release and detention, criminal case processing, criminal sentencing, Federal justice, civil justice, court organization an indigent defense.

 

Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts (Bureau of Justice Statistics) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dtdata.htm

Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts are aggregated data from a wide variety of published sources that are presented in spreadsheets to facilitate use with analytic software. These files contain thousands of numbers and hundreds of categories, displayed by jurisdiction and over time.

 

Federal Bureau of Prisons Office of Research and Evaluation http://www.bop.gov/orepg/oreindex.html

The Office of Research and Evaluation (ORE) provides information relevant to current and future questions in the field of corrections through social science research. ORE’s primary functions include conduction policy analyses, conducting evaluative and basic research studies, developing and maintaining information systems, producing technical and statistical reports, responding to information requests, providing technical assistance, and reviewing and processing research proposals.

 

National Criminal Justice Reference Service http://www.ncjrs.org

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world, providing services to an international community of policymakers and professionals. NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs: the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the OJP Program Offices. It also supports the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

 

Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency http://www.pccd.state.pa.us

Statistics on crime, corrections and sentencing trends in Pennsylvania can be downloaded in pdf or spreadsheet format.

 

RAND Institute http://www.rand.org

A nonprofit institution that helps improve public policy through research and analysis. Some publications are held by the University Libraries.

 

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/

The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) preserves and distributed computerized crime and justice data from Federal agencies, state agencies, and investigator initiated research projects to users for secondary statistics analysis. Founded in 1978 as part of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), the NACJD is supported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in the U.S. Department of Justice.

 

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/

This standard reference tool for criminal justice research contains a wide array of statistical information about crime and criminal justice in the United States. The data is presented in over 600 pages of tables. All of the data is national in scope, with displays of regional, state and city data included where possible. An important criteria for inclusion in the Sourcebook is that the data must be collected and reported using sound methodology. Careful annotations show the sources of data for each table for further study. An appendix provides a complete and annotated listing of resources with full bibliographic references.

 

Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Report http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

Data available up to 2002. Areas of data include crime in the United States, Hate Crime Statistics, aw Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).

 

United Nations Statistics & Research Sources http://www.uncjin.org/Statistics/statistics.html

This page was developed by the United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network, whose goal is to establish a world wide network to enhance the dissemination and exchange of information concerning criminal justice and crime prevention issues. UNCJIN has existed since 1989 and has been supported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics since 1990. The United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in Vienna has also been a supporter along with the National Institute of Justice, the State University of New York at Albany and the Research Foundation of the State University of New York.

 

College and University Campus Crime Statistics http://www.campussafety.org/crimestats/index.html

Campus crime data is available from two major sources, the U.S. Department of Education which under the “Jeanne Clery Act” collects statistics from more than 6,000 schools, and the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program which includes data for about 400 schools. The most recent statistics from each government agency are available from this page.

 

City of New York Patrol Services Bureau Crime Statistics http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/pct/cspdf.html

View the weekly crime statistics by clicking on the links. The weekly crime statistics are posted on the Monday two weeks after the closing date.