The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released three datasets for the 2018 National Survey of Youth in Custody dataset through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. This survey is part of the BJS National Prison Rape Statistics Program, which gathers mandated data on the incidence and prevalence of sexual assault in juvenile facilities under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108-79). The two publicly available datasets include?
- youth characteristics
- youth opinions of the facility and staff
- interactions with staff members and the nature of those engagements.
The third dataset also includes information on sexual victimization and is available for approved research projects.
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. Alexis R. Piquero is the director.
For more information on BJS's publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities,?visit?bjs.ojp.gov.
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