CJ 4880: Qualitative Research Methods in Criminal Justice

Statistics created and published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics covering crime trends, incarceration rates, criminal offenders, crime victims, and criminal justice operations.

BOP is a useful tool for finding inmate, population, and staffing statistics.

Resources related to local, state, and federal statistics displayed to help you see the current state of the corrections industry.

Articles and statistics about sentencing, incarceration and other issues.

International information on prison populations, imprisonment of women and juveniles, pretrial imprisonment, prison overcrowding, contact details for prison administrations. Also included are lists from the country with the highest rate to the country with the lowest rate, in respect of prison population rates, prison population totals, occupancy rates, pre-trial/remand prisoners, female prisoners and foreign prisoners. The last three lists show the number of such prisoners as a percentage of the prison population total. These 'highest to lowest' lists are available both for the entire world and for individual continents.

The UCR Program consists of four data collections: The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the Summary Reporting System (SRS), the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program, and the Hate Crime Statistics Program. The UCR Program publishes annual reports for each of these data collections and a preliminary semiannual report of summary data each winter, as well as special compilations such as Cargo Theft Report, Human Trafficking, and NIBRS topical studies. In addition to the four major data collections, the UCR Program will manage the new National Use-of-Force Data Collection. The FBI's interactive Crime Data Explorer tool serves as the digital front door for UCR data, enabling law enforcement and the general public to more easily use and understand the massive amounts of UCR data currently collected.