http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/index.htmlOffice of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (U.S. Department of Justice)
This Web site is designed to provide information and resources on both general areas of interest about juvenile justice and delinquency including conferences, funding opportunities, and new publications and the comprehensive strategy as a framework for communities to combat youth crime. Click on "Facts and Figures" for statistics on juvenile justice, delinquency prevention, and violence and victimization. It also provides data sets for juvenile arrests, court processing, and supplemental homicide statistics.
http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ssocs/School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) (National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), U.S. Department of Education)
The School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS) collects information on school crime and safety from a national sample of school principals in U.S. elementary and secondary schools. The survey was conducted in 1999/2000 and again in 2003/2004, with plans to continue on a biennial schedule. Questionnaires and publications are available online as PDFs; data files may be ordered free of charge on CD-ROM from the U.S. Department of Education’s EdPubs ordering system.
http://www.search.org/SEARCH -- The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics (The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics)
SEARCH is a nonprofit consortium that exists to help state and local justice agencies exchange information with one another or with the federal government. The site provides links to special projects including the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), Law Enforcement IT, Integrated Justice, Drug Courts, and Internet Crimes Against Children. A text-only version of the site is available.
http://www.socio.com/Sociometrics Corporation (Sociometrics Corp)
The Sociometrics Corporation is a commercial entity that provides data & documentation in six major areas: sexuality, health & adolescence; family; social research on aging; drug abuse; AIDS/STD; and disability. Studies can be searched or browsed; The datasets may be ordered for a fee, or may be available through other DISC subscriptions.
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Hosted by the State University of New York at Albany, the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics compiles data from over 100 sources and presents it in searchable PDF documents, with tables as spreadsheet files. The site is organized into six sections: System Characteristics, Public Opinion, Offenses Known, Arrests, Judicial Processing, and Corrections.
http://www.nicic.org/StateCorrectionsStatisticsState Corrections Statistics (National Institute of Corrections)
This quick-reference site combines data from the FBI, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the American Jail Association, the American Correctional Association, and state government websites. One year’s worth of information is displayed for each state, in an HTML table that summarizes violent crime, property crime, corrections population and incarceration rate, community corrections and cost per inmate. Each figure is compared with national average, highest state and lowest state. Bar graphs at the side of the page for each item show the selected state in context with the other 49 states; running a mouse over the bars displays the comparison for each state.
http://socds.huduser.org/State of the Cities Data System (SOCDS) at HUDuser (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
The SOCDS offers an interactive interface providing data on metropolitan areas, central cities and suburbs on the following subjects:
* demographic and economic data from the 1970 through 2000 U.S. censuses
* current employment statistics from the BLS’ Local Area Unemployment Statistics
* jobs, business establishments, and average pay from County Business Patterns data
* crime data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation
* building permit data from U.S. Census Bureau
* urban public finance data from the Census of Governments
Links to download the raw data files are also provided.
http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/SPPQ/research.shtmlState Politics and Policy Quarterly – Data Resource (State Politics and Policy Quarterly)
The SPPQ Data Resource compiles 50 variables from various sources, for the United States by state, covering the following areas: population and vital statistics; politics; education; crime; and business & economy. Most variables are annual figures, and some go back as far as 1975. Download the entire set or a single subject area, in Excel format. A codebook in Word is also available for download.
http://trac.syr.edu/Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) (Syracuse University)
The TRAC site, at Syracuse University, bills itself as "your source for comprehensive, independent, and nonpartisan information on federal enforcement, staffing, and spending." The site features maps, graphs, and many pages of HTML tables and other supporting material. Sections of the TRAC web site describe the enforcement activities and staffing patterns of the FBI, the IRS, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Customs Service. A new (2006) project focusing on immigration has been added to the site at
http://trac.syr.edu/immigration/. Data extracts for download are available through the subscription area of the site called TRACFED; UW-Madison does not subscribe.
http://www.unicef-irc.org/databases/transmonee/TransMONEE: Database of Socio-Economic Indicators for CEE/CIS Countries (United Nations Children's Fund and Innocenti Research Center)
TransMONEE contains over 150 economic and social indicators divided into ten different topics (population, natality, child and maternal mortality, life expectancy and adult mortality, family formation, health, education, child protection, crime indicators, and economic indicators) for 27 transition countries in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Annual time series data is available as far back as 1989. The TransMONEE data and country profiles are both available in Excel format.
http://www.uscourts.gov/library/statisticsalreports.htmlU.S. Courts – Statistical Reports (U.S. Federal Judiciary)
This site from the U.S. Federal Judiciary contains reports on caseloads for both the courts of appeals and district courts; bankruptcy filings; and wiretaps. Recent bankruptcy filing reports are available in Excel, while bankruptcy filing reports from the 1980s until 2000 are in PDF. The link for Federal Court Management Statistics lets the user select a year and a jurisdiction to generate Excel files of caseload information – the earliest report, 1997, carries figures back to 1992. Wiretap information and other caseload reports are presented in PDF only.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/crime/Uniform Crime Reports (University of Virginia Social Sciences Data Center)
This collection, from ICPSR 1990-2001 datasets, consists of four county-level data files. The first three provide arrests for Part I offenses (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, and arson) and for Part II offenses (forgery, fraud, embezzlement, vandalism, weapons violations, sex offenses, drug and alcohol abuse violations, gambling, vagrancy, curfew violations, and runaways). The fourth file provides reported offenses (as opposed to arrests) for Part I crimes only. A customized web form performs data extraction. Online plain text codebooks may be viewed as well.
http://www.uncjin.org/stats/WCTS/wcts.htmlUnited Nations Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network -- UNCJIN)
United Nations World Crime Surveys of Crime Trends and Criminal Justice data sets are available from this site. Data format varies by survey wave: ASCII, Excel, Lotus 123, and/or SPSS.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/fsbr.htmlWhite House Briefing Rooms (White House)
Current statistics for news release can be found here.The briefing rooms carry updates on Social Statistics, Economic Statistics, Crime Statistics, Demography Statistics, Health Statistics and Education Statistics.
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