Criminal Justice

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• Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window

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  ProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes, and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, and related fields.
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• Campus Safety and Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool

  Campus crime statistics for colleges and universities across the United States, including searches of the Dept. of Education database, and links to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports statistics for over 400 colleges.
• CrimeSolutions.gov

  A National Institute of Justice site with research which rates the effectiveness of criminal justice programs and practices for practitioners and policy makers intended to figure out what works, what doesn't, and what's promising in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services.
• Criminal Justice Statistics Center, State of California Department of Justice

  State of California criminal justice statistics.
• FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE)

  The Federal Burea of Investigation's CDE aims to provide transparency, create easier access, and expand awareness of criminal, and noncriminal, law enforcement data sharing; improve accountability for law enforcement; and provide a foundation to help shape public policy in support of a safer nation. Use the CDE to discover data through visualizations, downloads in .csv format, and other large data files.
• Federal Criminal Case Processing Statistics Data Tool (FJSP)

  The FJSP database contains information about suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system.
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)

  The NACJD archives and disseminates data on crime and justice for secondary analysis. The archive contains data from over 3,100 curated studies or statistical data series. NACJD is home to several large-scale and well known datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).
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  Statistical crime reports and publications, detailing specific offenses and outlining national and local trends in crime. Includes: Crime in the United States, National Incident-Based Reporting System, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, and Hate Crime Statistics with data from over 18,000 city, university/college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies.

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  *Latest releases of UCR are included in the FBI's CDE (see above).

• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

  One of the key tasks of UNODC is to produce and disseminate accurate statistics on drugs, crime and criminal justice at the international level. UNODC also works to strengthen national capacities to produce, disseminate and use drugs, crime and criminal justice statistics within the framework of official statistics.

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