WASHINGTON ? U.S. attorneys investigated a total of 1,864 suspects in matters involving violations of federal hate crime statutes during fiscal years 2005 to 2019. Hate crime suspects were referred for prosecution to U.S. attorneys from federal judicial districts in all 50 states.
Hate crimes are defined according to four statutes in the U.S. Criminal Code and collected by federal justice agencies. These include crimes in which the perpetrator selected the victim based on certain characteristics, such as race, color, religion, and national origin.
This report presents findings on law enforcement recruits, instructors, and types of training at state and local law enforcement training academies in 2018. The tables show statistics on recruits based on sex, race or ethnicity, and whether or not they completed the basic training program. Findings are also provided on the subject areas covered by basic training and average time spent on those subjects and the experience and education of instructors. BJS has also reissued?State and Local Law Enforcement Training Academies, 2013,?using a revised survey weighting methodology.
Findings are based on data from BJS?s?Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA), which gathers data on recruits, staff, training curricula, equipment, and facilities from training academies that are responsible for administering mandatory basic training to newly appointed or elected law enforcement officers. These academies are operated by state, county, and municipal agencies and by universities, colleges, and technical schools. Academies that provided only in-service training were excluded from CLETA.
This report presents findings on justice system expenditures by federal, state, and local governments in 2017. It provides estimates of government expenditures and employment for police protection, all judicial and legal functions (including prosecution, courts, and public defense), and corrections. It includes statistics on federal, state, and local government expenditures and employment, including types of expenditures, numbers of full-time employees, and payroll spending.
This report is part of BJS?s?Justice Expenditure and Employment Extracts (JEEE) series, from which BJS has published statistics since 1971.
This report presents data about alcohol and drug use, use disorder, and treatment experienced by state and federal prisoners. It includes statistics on?
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drug and alcohol use among prisoners before they were imprisoned, highlighting differences by demographic characteristics
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prisoners? participation in drug and alcohol treatment programs since admission to prison
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prisoners who met the?Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) dependence or abuse criteria for alcohol or drug use disorder.
Findings are based on self-reported data from BJS?s 2016?Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI).
This is the 23rd edition of the?Report on?Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a joint publication of BJS and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). It provides official estimates of school crime and safety from a variety of data sources, including national surveys of students, teachers, principals, and post-secondary institutions. Indicator 2,?Incidence of Victimization at School and Away From School, includes data from BJS?s National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
Data sources include the?NCVS, the?School Crime Supplement to the NCVS, the School-Associated Violent Death Surveillance System, the School Survey on Crime and Safety, the Schools and Staffing Survey, the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, and the Campus Safety and Security Survey.
These reports describe the steps used to calculate the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) formula-based award amounts and present summary results of the fiscal year 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 calculations. The JAG program provides states, tribes, and local governments with critical funding necessary to support a range of criminal justice areas, including?
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law enforcement
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prosecution and courts
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prevention and education
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corrections and community corrections
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drug treatment
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planning, evaluation, and technology improvement
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crime victim and witness programs.
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This report is the 24th in a series that began in 1985. It presents statistics on persons supervised by U.S. adult correctional systems from 2009 to 2019, including?
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persons incarcerated in state or federal prison or local jail
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persons supervised in the community on probation or parole
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the size and change in the total correctional population from 2009 to 2019.
Findings are based on data from BJS?s?Annual Probation Survey, Annual Parole Survey,?Annual Survey of Jails,?Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country,?Census of Jails, and?National Prisoner Statistics Program.
This report is the 28th in a series that began in 1981. It presents national data on adult offenders supervised under probation or parole in 2019. It includes characteristics of the population, such as sex, race or Hispanic origin, and most serious offense. The report details how offenders move onto and off community supervision, such as completing their term of supervision, being incarcerated, absconding, or other unsatisfactory outcomes while in the community.
Findings are based on data from BJS?s?Annual Probation Survey, Annual Parole Survey, and?Federal Justice Statistics Program. These are the only national data collections that cover community corrections in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. federal system.
This report describes the recidivism patterns of state prisoners released in 2012, for 5 years following release, by their demographic characteristics, commitment offense, and prior criminal history. It also compares the recidivism rates of prisoners released in 2012 to those of prisoners released in 2005 and 2008.
Findings are based on prisoner records reported by state departments of corrections to BJS's National Corrections Reporting Program and criminal history records from the FBI?s Interstate Identification Index and state repositories.
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This report, the 11th in a series that began in 2011, describes activities by BJS to collect and improve data on crime and justice in Indian country. It summarizes funding to enhance tribal participation in national records and information systems and highlights data collection activities covering tribal populations.
This report meets the requirement of the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 (TLOA; P.L. 111-211, 124 Stat. 2258 ? 251(b)) to report annually on BJS?s activities to establish and enhance a tribal crime data collection system.
This report summarizes the administration and operations of tribal court systems located in the lower 48 states, including the number and types of courts, subject- and person-level jurisdiction exercised, and sources of operational funding.
Findings are based on data from BJS?s 2014 National Survey of Tribal Court Systems, the first complete enumeration of tribal court systems operating in the United States.
Sexual Assaults Recorded by Law Enforcement, 2015 and 2019?? INTERACTIVE REPORTS
These online, interactive reports present detailed statistics on four types of violent sexual assault recorded by law enforcement and reported to the FBI?s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS): rape, sodomy, sexual assault with an object, and fondling. State specific data are presented for 15 states in 2015 and for 21 states in 2019?the states in which all law enforcements agencies met the criteria for reporting their crime data to NIBRS. Within states, users may compare the demographic characteristics of sexual assault victims to victims of other serious violent crimes, examine sexual victimization rates by victim demographics, and view statistics on police clearance and arrest outcomes for sexual assaults.
These data tables present estimates of government expenditures and employment at the national, federal, state, and local levels for the following justice categories:?police protection, all judicial and legal functions (including prosecution, courts, and public defense), and corrections. Data are from the U.S. Census Bureau's Annual Survey of State and Local Government Finances and Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll, and reflect updates made by the U.S. Census Bureau.
This data table presents summary counts of violent and property crimes reported to tribal law enforcement agencies by state and year, including?
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overall violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault
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overall property crime, burglary, larceny/theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson.
Findings are based on data from the FBI?s Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
BJS has released three datasets from the?National Corrections Reporting Program?(NCRP) through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). The NCRP compiles offender-level data on admissions and releases from state and federal prisons and post-confinement community supervision. The data are used to monitor the nation's correctional population and address specific policy questions related to recidivism, prisoner reentry, and trends in demographic characteristics of the incarcerated and community supervision populations.
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