Social and Behavioral Sciences
Library Statistics Sources
Data.gov - access to government datasets for your own analysis
Statistical Abstract of the United States
HA202 .A388 West Reference
Statistics Web Sites
Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS)
Quick access to a variety of data including
crimes and victims, criminal offenders, law enforcement, courts and
sentencing, prosecution, corrections, federal justice, expeditures and
employment, etc.
International
Justice Statistics - BJS
Includes BJS publications, justice
statistics from the United Nations, Official country websites and more.
National
Archive of Criminal Justice Data
This page from the University of Michican contains data sets on a
variety of topics that can be downloaded and analyzed. Guides are available for each resource.
Crime in Arizona - AZ DPS
The purpose of the Crime in Arizona Report is to provide data regarding the nature and extent of crime throughout the State.
Crime Reports - AZCentral.com
Search and map crimes reported to Valley law
enforcement agencies. You can search by city, ZIP code or street name
and by a specific crime type or all crimes.
Crime
Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics
This source "brings together data from
more than 100 sources about all aspects of criminal justice in the
United States. These data are displayed in over 600 tables."
Uniform Crime
Reports (UCR) - from FBI
"A nationwide cooperative statistical
effort of nearly 17,000 city, county and state law enforcement agencies
voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention."
National Crime
Victimization Survey (NCVS)
"The NCVS is the Nation's second largest ongoing household survey.
Survey
data tell us how many rapes, sexual assaults, robberies, assaults,
thefts, household
burglaries, and motor vehicle thefts U.S. residents age 12 or older and
their
households experience each year."
Homocide
Trends in the United States - from BJS
"This site contains a series of charts that
describe homicide patterns and trends in the U.S. since 1976."
Statistics on Drugs and
Crime - from BJS
This BJS page provides links to a variety of data on issues where drugs
and crime intersect.
National
Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA)
"The primary source of
information on the prevalence, patterns, and consequences of drug and
alcohol use and abuse in the general U.S. civilian non
institutionalized population, age 12 and older."
Arrestee Drug
Monitoring Program (ADAM)
This National Insititute of Justice page provides links to data
gathered by the ADAM program from 2000, 2003 with access to data sets
that cover 1987-2003.
Intimate Partner
Violence in the United States - from BJS
Use links to data on a variety of topics to
learn about victim and offender characteristics, circumstances of the
crime and the types of injuries and treatment victims receive.
Hate Crime Statistics - UCR
Links to this annual publication are provided here from 1995 to the
most recent available.
Global Report
on Crime and Justice
Includes data that have been
collected by the United Nations and ancillary bodies
concerning crime, criminal justice and crime prevention over the past
25 years.
Sentencing and Corrections
Corrections Statistics - from
BJS
One stop shopping page that includes graphs summarizing trend data
statistics and pages with "information, statistics and publications
regarding capital punishment, jails, prisons, probation and parole."
Sourcebook
of Federal Sentencing Statistics
Data by state
"This Sourcebook contains
descriptive statistics on the application of the federal sentencing
guidelines and provides selected district, circuit, and national
sentencing data."
Quick Facts - Bureau of
Federal Prisons
Includes statistics on prisoners by age,
security level, gender, race, ethnicity,type of offence and sentencing.
Executions in the
United States
This site developed by the Dealth Penalty Information Center provides a
links to pages that outline the history and methods of executions in
the US.
Database of Execution - Dealth Penalty
Information Center
This database enables searchers to find executions by name, victim,
age, gender, ethnicity, state and more.
Law Enforcement
Law
Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, (LEMAS)
Compiled from the 1999 LEMAS survey, this report presents
agency-specific data collected from more than 700 State and local
agencies that employed 100 or more sworn officers.
Law Enforcement Officers
Killed - UCR
Links to this annual publication are provided here from 1996 to the
most recent available.