Research Guides: U.S. Government: Department of Justice

Justice News (DOJ)

U.S. Department of Justice
The mission of the United States Department of Justice is "To enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans."
Bureau of Justice Statistics
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

Department of Justice Agencies

Criminal Records

Crime Statistics
"The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, which collects and publishes crime statistics, has developed an online database tool to make it easier to search for crime data going back to 1960."
Crime and the Nation's Households
National estimates of the percentage of households experiencing one or more violent or property crimes as measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey.
Older years in STROZIER, Documents -- -- J29.11/8:
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Published monthly. Older issues in STROZIER, Documents -- Periodicals -- J1.14/8:
Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics Table Building Tool
Includes:
National crime statistics from 1960-most recent year available
State crime statistics from 1960-most recent year available
City and county statistics from 1985-most recent year available
Criminal Victimization
STROZIER, Documents General Collection -- J29.11/10:
Hate Crime Statistics
STROZIER, Documents -- -- J1.14/2: C86/17/
National Violent Death Reporting System
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Law Enforcement

Bombs and Firearms - Data and Statistics
From the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Indicators of School Crime and Safety
Compiled jointly by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics. Records crime occurring in school and on the way to and from school.
Older years in STROZIER, Documents -- -- ED1.347:
Justice Expenditure and Employment
Data taken from the Annual Government Finance Survey and the Annual Survey of Public Employment (both from the Census Bureau.) Includes national and state-by-state estimates of government expenditures and employment for police protection, all judicial and corrections. Older years in STROZIER, Documents -- -- J29.11/2-2:
Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
STROZIER, Documents -- -- J1.14/7-6: Some years in microfiche.

Incarceration and Penalty

Death Penalty Information Center
Has an execution database, individual state data and more.
Weekly Population Report
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics
STROZIER, Documents General Collection Ground Floor -- Y3.SE5: 1/ (year)/SOURCE
Prisoner Locator Tools
Links to inmate locators in many states
Capital Punishment
Characteristics of persons under sentence of death at the year end and the number of persons executed by state, etc.
STROZIER, Documents -- -- J29.11/3:

Library Databases

World Fact Book of Criminal Justice Systems: Bureau of Justice Statistics
This factbook, developed under BJS grants, provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of 45 countries around the world. The original 42 descriptions were completed in 1993. The latest 5 entries including two updated country profiles were prepared in 2002 under the direction of William McDonald Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and Deputy Director, Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure, Law Center, Georgetown University
Abbreviation: bjs
Vendor: U.S. Department of Justice
Subjects: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Law
Type: Datasets / Statistics, Government Publications, Historical / Primary Sources
Criminal Justice (ProQuest)
Provides cover-to-cover access for 45 criminal justice journals frequently consulted by professionals, and indexes 240 journals, 80 of those journals include full-text articles.
Subject coverage:
Criminology
Corrections administration
Criminal law
Criminal justice
Law enforcement
Addiction
Family law
Industrial security
Rehabilitation

Abbreviation: cjpindex
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1981–Current
Subjects: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Public Administration and Policy, Public Safety and Security
Type: Indexes / Catalogs
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
Indexes and abstracts more than 203,000 criminal justice publications including: federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, unpublished research. Includes a full-text subset of more than 1,500 publications on this site and from NCJRS partner agency web sites.
Subject coverage:
Alternatives to incarceration
Corrections
Crime deterrence and prevention
Criminal justice statistics
Drug policy
Juvenile justice
Law enforcement
Police training
Probation and parole
Victims of crime

Abbreviation: natcrimjust
Vendor: ProQuest
Coverage: 1970–Current
Subjects: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Public Safety and Security
Type: E-Journal Collections, Indexes / Catalogs

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