Criminal Justice

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. Statistics are located under these broad categories: Corrections, Courts and Sentencing, Crime Type, Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program, Employment and Expenditure, Federal, Law Enforcement, Victims.

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime statistics on police-recorded offenses and identified victims are available by crime type. Statistics on the response of the criminal justice system are divided according to police, prosecution, court and prison statistics.

Information on inmates, budgets, and the correctional system

Was the compendium of Bureau of Justice statistics until 2004, still maintained with some current and cumulative tables by University of Albany, plus 1994-2002 archives of Sourcebook. Clemson Library has 1974-2001 copies of Sourcebook in print in Government Documents (on 3rd floor) at J29.9/6

Data you can search or browse and view at NACJD include: International data on criminal justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics-funded studies archived at NACJD, National Institute of Justice-funded studies archived at NACJD, and serial data collections.

Several annual statistical publications are produced, through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States. Examples of UCR data available are "Crime in the United States" and "Hate Crime Statistics."

he National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is an incident-based reporting system for crimes known to the police. For each crime incident coming to the attention of law enforcement, a variety of data are collected about the incident. These data include the nature and types of specific offenses in the incident, characteristics of the victim(s) and offender(s), types and value of property stolen and recovered, and characteristics of persons arrested in connection with a crime incident.

Narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of 45 countries around the world.