Research Guides: Criminal Justice: Statistics & Case Studies

Crime Statistics

Bureau of Justice Statistics
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics is the primary source for United States' criminal justice statistics. Its mission is "to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of governmen
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
This site brings together data from more than 100 sources, presented in over 1,000 tables. Data is organized under six topic headings: 1) Criminal justice characteristics, 2) Public opinion, 3) Crime, victims, 4) Arrests, seizures, 5) Courts, prosecution, sentencing, and 6) Parole, jails, prisons, death penalty.
FBI: Uniform Crime Reporting
Annual reports such as Crime in the United States, Hate Crime Statistics, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, etc. To interact with the data and generate your own customized data sets by selecting variables you choose, go to the Uniform Crime Reporting Data Tool.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Data & Statistics
omprehensive collection of ATF-related data from national surveys, state-based surveys, other collected license statistics, and other data sources documents trends in firearms, commerce and use of federal services in the United States.
Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool
Data on campus safety and security from the U.S. Department of Education.
Drug Enforcement Administration: Statistics & Facts
Includes statistics of DEA arrests, drug seizures and meth lab incidents, plus links to related resources.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
The mission of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) is to facilitate research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data

Legal Case Studies

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*KeyCite, an integrated tool that shows whether any case, statute, or regulation is still good law
*American Law Reports, a unique research tool that collects and analyzes every court case decided on a particular point of law
*American Jurisprudence, a comprehensive encyclopedia of state and federal law
*Current and archived articles from hundreds of leading law reviews and journals

Population Statistics

Explore Census Data
Find population facts on datasets about any state, county, or city via the Census Bureau.

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