LibGuides: U.S. Data and Statistical Sources: Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Statistics

Bureau of Justice Statistics - Use the Topics menu at the top to review resources by specific topics
- Data Collections -- Find datasets for analysis
- Data Analysis Tools -- Do some data analysis on the web
- Publications -- Comprehensive list of all publications
Juvenile Justice Statistical Briefing Book -- via the Dept of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis -- via the U.S. Department of Education
Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Uniform Crime Reports: Annual publications in which the FBI compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies. Includes data on hate crime statistics, national use-of-force data, and law enforcement officers killed or assaulted.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) -- Preserves and distributes computerized crime and justice data from federal agencies, state agencies, and investigator-initiated research projects to users for secondary statistical analysis.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) -- One of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world. The collection, with holdings from the early 1970s to the present, contains more than 180,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.