Here find statistics about crime and victims, criminal offenders, courts and sentencing, corrections, law enforcement, prosecution, expenditures and employment, criminal record systems, and related matters.
"In 1991 the Chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary asked Professor James Liebman of the Columbia University School of Law to calculate the frequency of relief in habeas corpus cases. In late 1995, the study was expanded from a single count of cases and their outcomes to a search for information that might help explain why relief is granted in so many capital cases.
"Presents information on the percentage of households or persons in households who are victimized as measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey. Findings are presented by region; urban, suburban or rural location; and by household size. This annual report also includes overall trends since 1994 and includes vandalism and intimate partner violence.
"The OPE Campus Security Statistics Website is your direct link to reported criminal offenses for over 6000 colleges and universities in the United States."
"The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 600 tables.
"Crime in the United States (CIUS) is an annual publication in which the FBI compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies. This report also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data." Online availability extends back to 1995
Tables convey data from United States District Courts as well as State Courts
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This page was last updated Thursday, May 04, 2006.
