Research Guides: Criminal Justice: Statistics & Data

U.S. National and State Statistics

Databases

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) This link opens in a new window
Full-text reports from the U.S. Department of Justice and related federal agencies. Good for criminal justice statistics, results of sponsored research, and practical information about criminal justice problems for practitioners in law enforcement and corrections.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Start here for data on any topic. Up-to-date statistics from over 18,000 sources.
Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new window
Find recent statistics reports on United States. Topics include population, health, education, law enforcement, economic and business conditions, and much more.

Websites

Bureau of Justice Statistics
Court Statistics Project
Caseload statistics for state courts.
Crime in the United States
United States crime data by region, state, city, university, or agency. Older annual editions available in the library at HV6787.A3.
FBI Crime Data Explorer
Scroll down to explore by location and data set.
Indicators of School Crime and Safety
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Start here for statistics on juveniles as victims and offenders, juveniles in court, juvenile and law enforcement, juveniles on probation, and juveniles in prison or jail.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Brings together criminal justice statistics from over 100 government and private sources. Older editions can also be found in the library at General Collection HV7245 .N37b.
United States Courts

Statista This link opens in a new window
Start here for data on any topic. Up-to-date statistics from over 18,000 sources.

Harvard Dataverse This link opens in a new window
Social science research data contributed by scholars around the world. This is an open access site, but some data sets are restricted.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) This link opens in a new window
The world's largest archive of digital social science data.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data This link opens in a new window
Repository of criminal justice data files from the U.S. Department of Justice and other agencies with data from the Uniform Crime Reports and other major studies.

Compendium of National Juvenile Justice Datasets
A guide to data sets relating to “juvenile offending, victimization, and contact with the juvenile justice system.” Most data comes from nation-wide reports and surveys in the United States.
National Data Archive on Child Abuse & Neglect
A guide to national datasets on child maltreatment. The site includes information about how to order the datasets, which are free to qualified faculty who agree to the terms and conditions. Most datasets are available to students only with the sponsorship of a faculty advisor.
Terrorism & Preparedness Data Resource Center
The TPDRC is a digital archive of data files on terrorism "incidents, organizations, perpetrators, and victims; governmental and nongovernmental responses to terror...; and citizen's attitudes towards terrorism, terror incidents, and the response to terror."