Criminal Justice

Main page for the Bureau of Justice Statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice.

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has been the starting place for law enforcement executives, students of criminal justice, researchers, members of the media, and the public at large seeking information on crime in the nation. Includes the publication CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES.

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 published and unpublished sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States.

This section of uscourts.gov provides statistical data on the business of the federal Judiciary. Specific publications address the work of the appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts; the probation and pretrial services systems; and other components of the U.S. courts.

The FCCPS tool, from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), is an interface that can be used to analyze federal case processing data. Users can generate various statistics in the areas of federal law enforcement, prosecution/courts and incarcerations, and based on title and section of the U.S. Criminal Code. Data are available for the years 1998-2019.

The Court Statistics Project (CSP) publishes caseload data from the courts of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. *THIS LINK for 2019-2022 data in new interactive format*

The Court Statistics Project (CSP) publishes caseload data from the courts of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. *THIS LINK for pre-2019 data in older PDF format.*

Explore 2020 census data and statistics from the US Census Bureau,

It 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.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics, through its Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center, compiles comprehensive information describing suspects and defendants processed in the federal criminal justice system.

The mission of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) is to facilitate research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data.

Featuring statistics from 36 European countries, it covers offences and offenders known to the police, prosecution, convictions and sentences, and corrections (including non-custodial sanctions and survey data).

Cross-national UNODC crime statistics for over 120 countries are available on this page. Includes downloadable Excel files.

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