Criminal Justice

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. Statistics are located under these broad categories: Corrections, Courts and Sentencing, Crime Type, Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program, Employment and Expenditure, Federal, Law Enforcement, Victims.

Several annual statistical publications are produced, through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States. Examples of UCR data available are "Crime in the U.S." and "Hate Crime Statistics."

Data you can search or browse and view at NACJD include: International data on criminal justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics-funded studies archived at NACJD, National Institute of Justice-funded studies archived at NACJD, and serial data collections.

The National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is an incident-based reporting system for crimes known to the police. For each crime incident coming to the attention of law enforcement, a variety of data are collected about the incident. These data include the nature & types of specific offenses in the incident, victim(s) and offender(s) characteristics, etc. Incident-based data provide a very large amount of information about crime. Therefore this Web site provides a Guide to its use.

Cross-national UNODC crime statistics for over 120 countries are available on this page covering the period 2003 to 2008. Statistics on police-recorded offences and identified victims are available by crime type. Statistics on the response of the criminal justice system are divided according to police, prosecution, court and prison statistics.