In 2020, BJS provided new classifications of urban, suburban, and rural areas for use in the 2019 version and future versions of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), with the goal of presenting a more accurate picture of where criminal victimizations occur. Based on language previously published in Criminal Victimization, 2019, this report illustrates how these classifications are determined and how the new definitions more closely fit U.S. residents’ own sense of where they live. See the full Criminal Victimization, 2019 report for additional statistics.
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These reports provide national statistics on the federal response to crime for fiscal years 2015 and 2016. The statistics presented in these reports describe case-processing in the federal criminal justice system, including investigations by U.S. attorneys, prosecutions and declinations, convictions and acquittals, sentencing, pre-trial release, detention, appeals, probation and parole, and prisons. They also describe the annual activity, workloads, and outcomes associated with the federal criminal justice system.
Federal Justice Statistics, 2015 – Statistical Tables
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Federal Justice Statistics, 2016 – Statistical Tables
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This report is the first in a series that examines deaths that occur during federal arrest, detention, and incarceration in the United States. It describes decedent, incident, and facility characteristics of deaths in federal custody and during arrest by federal law enforcement agencies during fiscal years 2016 and 2017.
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This report examines the nature and frequency of U.S. residents’ contact with police by residents’ demographic characteristics, types of contact, perceptions of police behaviors, and police threats or use of nonfatal force. It is the twelfth release in a series that began in 1996.
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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 yearend 2018. From May 2019 to July 2019, SEARCH (The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics) 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.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics funded this third-party report. It is not a BJS report and does not release official government statistics. Any analysis, conclusions, or opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views, opinions, or policies of the Bureau of Justice Statistics or the U.S. Department of Justice. This email does not represent an endorsement of any publication or entity referenced herein.
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The following data collection is open for public comments:
Comments on the proposed supplemental data collection will be accepted until February 8, 2021.
BJS is now accepting applications for the following funding opportunities:
Grants.gov forms are due on March 2, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET; the JustGrants application is due on March 16, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET.
Grants.gov forms are due on March 11, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET; the JustGrants application is due on March 18, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET.
Grants.gov forms are due on April 8, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET; the JustGrants application is due on April 15, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET.
Grants.gov forms are due on April 22, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET; the JustGrants application is due on April 29, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET.
The following datasets have been released through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data:
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