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The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released a dataset on law enforcement statistics through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). These files include characteristics of persons who had some type of contact with police during the year.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released a dataset on prisoner statistics through the NACJD. This survey collects data on demographic characteristics, current offense and sentence, incident characteristics, firearm possession and sources, criminal history, socioeconomic characteristics, family background, drug and alcohol use and treatment, mental and physical health and treatment, and facility programs and rule violations.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Jeffrey H. Anderson is the director.
For more information on BJS's publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities, visit BJS online.
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