Policing & Corrections: Find Statistics
Books on Statistics
The handbook of measurement issues in criminology and criminal justice (ebook) by Call Number: onlinePublication Date: 2016
Crime Statistics
- Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime ReportsThe Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the United States, are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States
- Sage DataContains national, state-level, and local level historical data for the areas of agriculture, crime and law enforcement, defense, economy, education, employment and labor, energy and environment, geography, government finances, health, households and housing, political science, population, social welfare as well as transportation. Replaces Sage Stats.
- Compendium of National Juvenile Justice Data SetsMaintains data sets about juvenile offending, victimization, and contact with the juvenile justice system. Data sources include official records and self-report data from surveys.
- Bureau of Justice StatisticsThis site includes statistics and information about crime and victims, criminal offenders, law enforcement, prosecution, the federal justice system, courts and sentencing, corrections, expenditure and employment, criminal record systems, and special topics.
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (ICPSR)Data sources stored at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data come from a variety of federal and other sources. Find national and international data sets to analyze online, or download and analyze.