*Criminal Justice: Find Statistics and Data

Established in 1979 by the U.S. Department of Justice, the BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, offenders, victims, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

From the U.S. Department of Education, this site provides data and statistics related to crime on college and university campuses. Download data for a school or schools, or use the online tools to generate trend data.

From the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, this page collects and describes datasets related to juvenile offending, victimization, and the juvenile justice system. Select a dataset from the dropdown menu to learn about its scope, methods, and how to access it.

Find inmate, population, and staff statistics (most of which are updated monthly) for public and private facilities housing federal prisoners. You can also generate reports, graphs, and charts, and view past totals.

This report contains data on the workload of the U.S. Federal Courts, comparing the current caseload to the caseload 1, 5, and 10 years earlier, and covering the years 2001 to 2021.

Here you will find summary findings, statistical publications, csv files, and data for the following topics: local police, sheriff's offices, federal, tribal, and campus law enforcement, forensics, police-public contact, arrest related deaths, and community policing.

NACJD archives and disseminates data on crime and justice from more than 3,100 curated studies for secondary analysis. For any given data set, users can also retrieve a list of citations to published analyses.

NCVS is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. Each year, data are obtained from a nationally representative sample of about 150,000 households, comprising nearly 240,000 persons, on the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of criminal victimization in the United States.

The NJCDA collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates data and statistics related to cases handled by courts with juvenile jurisdiction.

Find annual national and state-level data on the number of prisoners in state and federal prison facilities.

From the U. S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, this page provides access to data snapshots and statistics relating to youth justice.

Gathered and maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the UCR program has been providing crime statistics since 1930. It includes data from more than 18,000 city, university/college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies.

See also “Law Enforcement and Correctional Unit Data Reporting” and “Data Dashboards” (in the sidebar menu).

Click on “LexisNexis Community Crime Map” for an interactive map, searchable by date and offense.

Click on “Community Crime Map” (mid-page) for an interactive map, searchable by date and offense.

Six editions of the ESB provide police, prosecution, court, and prison statistics for European countries over the time period 1990 to 2016. Select “Printed Editions” and use the dropdown menu to access .pdfs of each edition.

From the United Nations: “The International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) provides a comprehensive framework for producing statistics on crime and criminal justice. Its primary unit of classification is the act or event that constitutes a criminal offence and the description of the criminal acts is based on behaviours and not on legal provisions.”

This is the homepage of INTERPOL databases. Some databases restrict searching to users who hold INTERPOL authorization

This site provides both online data (reports) and downloadable datasets related to international crime and criminal justice systems.

Users of this searchable database hosted by the Rutgers Law Library can find crime data and statistics by subject or country. Sources indexed are those not commercially published, such as technical reports, working papers, government/agency reports, and conference proceedings.

The World Prison Brief (WPB) is a unique database that provides free access to information about prison systems throughout the world. Country information is updated on a monthly basis, using data largely derived from governmental or other official sources. Each country page gives information on:
• total prison populations, and prison population rates per 100,000 of the national population
• the use of imprisonment for women, juveniles and foreign nationals
• the extent of pre-trial/remand imprisonment
• prison overcrowding, as indicated by occupancy levels
• news and official reports on prison conditions
• details of local organisations and other resources
• department or ministry responsible for prisons, with contact information