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MONTH IN REVIEW

November 2020
BJS publication


Victim, Perpetrator, and Incident Characteristics of Sexual Victimization of Youth in Juvenile Facilities, 2018 – Statistical Tables

This report describes victim, perpetrator, and incident characteristics of sexual victimization of youth in juvenile facilities. Tables within this report accompany those from the full BJS report Sexual Victimization Reported by Youth in Juvenile Facilities, 2018, which provides national estimates of sexual victimization in juvenile facilities and identifies 12 high-rate and 14 low-rate facilities.

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BJS third-party report


Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems, 2018

This report presents a snapshot of criminal-history record systems and how cases were tracked through to disposition across the United States and its territories as of year-end 2018. From May 2019 to July 2019, SEARCH surveyed the administrators of criminal-history record repositories in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. This marks the fifteenth Survey of State Criminal History Information Systems that SEARCH has conducted since 1989. Caution should be used when comparing trends between surveys because shifts in a jurisdiction’s fiscal priorities or technological capabilities over time may skew the status of its criminal-history records.

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BJS 60-day notice


The following data collection is open for public comments:

Comments on the proposed extension of this data collection will be accepted until December 14, 2020.

BJS data collections


The following datasets have been released through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data:

Announcements


Apply Now: BJS statistician vacancies

The Bureau of Justice Statistics seeks statisticians to carry out statistical collections in criminal victimization, law enforcement, corrections, courts, recidivism, or special projects. Job duties include—

  • performing various statistical data collection activities, such as analyzing data, coordinating data collections, and reporting statistical findings from statistical programs
  • designing and managing complex statistical data series or major components of a large scale data series 
  • ensuring the effective collection of statistical data and the use of appropriate collection systems.
  • consulting and collaborating with criminal justice agency representatives

Vacancies are available at both the GS 11-12 and GS 13-14 grade level. Applications are due by December 7, 2020.

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UCR data tool has been replaced

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data tool has been replaced by the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer (CDE). Effective November 6, 2020, the UCR data tool is no longer available. Please update your bookmarks accordingly.

The CDE is an interactive tool that presents charts and graphs that break down data in a variety of ways. The CDE also offers an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows developers to make interactive applications to share large amounts of data in meaningful ways. Users of the API will be able to access UCR data from 1979 to the current publication. UCR data can also be found in the Crime in the United States publications.
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