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MONTH IN REVIEW

April 2021

BJS publication


Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, 2001-2018 – Statistical Tables

This report presents detailed statistical tables on mortality in state and federal prisons. It provides information on causes of death; decedent characteristics, such as age, gender, and race or ethnicity; and mortality rates of inmate populations compared to the general U.S. adult population.

Findings are based on the Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI) data collection, formerly the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP).

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BJS publication


Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2018 – Statistical Tables

This report presents detailed statistical tables on mortality in local jails. It provides information on causes of death; decedent characteristics, such as age, gender, and race or ethnicity; and mortality rates of inmate populations compared to the general U.S. adult population.

Findings are based on the MCI data collection, formerly the DCRP.

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BJS publication


Financial Fraud in the United States, 2017

This report details the prevalence of seven types of personal financial fraud victimization and the patterns of reporting fraud to police and other authorities. It includes statistics on the characteristics of personal financial fraud victims and describes the consequences resulting from fraud incidents.

Findings are from the 2017 Supplemental Fraud Survey, the first data collection of its kind under the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).

 

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BJS publication


Stalking Victimization, 2016

This report details the demographic characteristics of stalking victims and describes the nature of stalking victimization, including the number of offenders, the victim-offender relationship, and the frequency and duration of the stalking. The survey measured 12 types of stalking behaviors, incorporating both traditional stalking and stalking with technology.

Findings are based on the 2016 Supplemental Victimization Survey to the NCVS.

 

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BJS publication


Federal Justice Statistics, 2017-2018

This report, the 32nd in an annual series which began in 1979, provides national statistics on the federal response to crime for fiscal years 2017 and 2018. The report describes 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.

Findings are based on data collected through BJS’s Federal Justice Statistics Program from six federal justice agencies: the U.S. Marshals Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and Federal Bureau of Prisons.

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BJS publication


Victims of Identity Theft, 2018

This report describes the number of persons age 16 or older who experienced identity theft in 2018, including the type of identity theft, how personal information was obtained, whether victims reported to credit bureaus or police, the extent of financial losses, other negative outcomes for victims, and the lifetime prevalence of identity theft.

Findings are based on data from BJS’s 2018 Identity Theft Supplement to the NCVS.

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BJS third-party report


Estimating Crime Victimization in Large States and MSAs through Reweighting: Evaluation and Methodology

This third-party report was produced by RTI International for BJS under award number 2011-NV-CX-K068. This study examines the extent to which weighting for National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data can be adjusted to produce reliable subnational violent victimization statistics. This report also provides guidelines for aggregating NCVS data over multiple years to produce subnational estimates of interest. Data and methodology are based on analysis of the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey.

Please see disclaimer for this report. This email does not represent an endorsement of any third-party publication or entity referenced herein.

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BJS third-party report


Measuring Resident Perceptions of Police and Community Safety: Findings from the Local-Area Crime Survey

This third-party report was produced by Westat, Inc. for BJS under award number 2010-NV-CX-K077. The Local-Area Crime Survey (LACS) was fielded in 2015 and 2016 to collect victimization data and information on perceptions of police and community safety from residents in the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. The LACS was adapted from the National Crime Victimization Survey as part of BJS’s efforts to build a program to estimate victimization at subnational levels. Westat, in collaboration with BJS, proposed a way to develop and evaluate a cost-effective survey of victimization and public perceptions as one piece of the subnational program. This report presents aggregate findings from 40 metropolitan areas on perceptions of police and community safety.

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BJS third-party report


Constructing and Disseminating Small Area Estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2007-2018

This third-party report was produced by Westat, Inc., for BJS under award number 2017-BJ-CX-K030. It builds upon a previously released report that combined data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) with small area estimation methods and data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports to produce estimates for states for 1999–2013 and for some large counties and substate areas for 1998–2012. This report features state-level estimates for an expanded set of characteristics that have been produced as 3-year averages for 2007–2018. The report includes displays of the state estimates accompanied by a more simplified description for the interested public. The majority of the report focuses on the software and its underlying methods.

This report refers to software developed by the author to carry out the analysis described for NCVS data. Persons interested in accessing the software to analyze NCVS data for their own research purposes should contact the U.S. Bureau of the Census regarding their Federal Statistical Research Data Center program at www.census.gov/about/adrm/fsrdc.html. As of the release of this report, access to NCVS data is limited to years prior to 2016. Persons interested in copies of the software for adapting to their own small area estimation projects not involving NCVS data should send a request to the Bureau of Justice Statistics at [email protected]. 

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BJS third-party report


Small Area Estimation for the National Crime Victimization Survey: A Guide for Data Processing and Estimation Procedures

This third-party report was produced by RTI International for BJS under award number 2017-MU-MU-K048. This report offers programmers and statisticians guidance on how to use small area estimation (SAE) techniques to develop crime estimates with data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the Summary Reporting System (SRS) of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. It also details how to determine the final predictors for deriving the variance-covariance matrix in SAE models and how to use the SAE functions in R to compute final subnational estimates for a set of outcomes. Estimates cover victimization and prevalence rates of common crime types. This is a companion report to BJS third-party report Constructing and Disseminating Small Area Estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2007–2018.

Please see disclaimer for this report. This email does not represent an endorsement of any third-party publication or entity referenced herein.


BJS data analysis tool


2017 and 2018 data now available for the Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics data tool

Federal case processing data for the years 1998 through 2018 are now available through the Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics (FCCPS) data tool. Through this dynamic tool, users can access data on suspects and defendants processed in the federal criminal justice system and generate various statistics in the areas of federal law enforcement, prosecution and courts, and incarceration.

Users can also look up data based on title and section of the U.S. Criminal Code. Data are from BJS’s Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center.

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BJS solicitations

 

BJS is now accepting applications for the following funding opportunities:

Grants.gov forms are due on June 14, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET; the JustGrants application is due on June 28, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET.

Grants.gov forms are due on June 14, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET; the JustGrants application is due on June 28, 2021 by 11:59 p.m. ET.


BJS data collections

 

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

 


Announcements

 

The BJS 2021 publications calendar has been updated

The BJS calendar year 2021 publications schedule for annual, periodic, third-party, discretionary, and congressionally mandated reports has been updated.

Access the updated BJS 2021 publications calendar →


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