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International, Australia, Canada, Scotland, United Kingdom, United States, Related Documents
International
Child Abuse Statistics, Research and Resources: A collection of international research, statistics by country and on and offline resources for those researching this topic.
Criminal Justice Research Resources: Created and maintained by Charles Dreveskracht, this page contains links to a wide variety of CJ research sources, methodologies, statistics, and much more. An invaluable research tool!
International Crime Victim Survey: The International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS) is the most far-reaching programme of standardized sample surveys to look at householders’ experience with crime, policing, crime prevention and fear of crime in a large number of countries. Includes baseline information, methodology, publications, individual country statistics, comparative statistics between countries, key statistics and a list of participating countries/organizations.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Science Research: This university-based consortium offers access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data, training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques and resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies.
Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems - United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network: The data of the First through Fifth United Nations Surveys (1970-1994) are available here.
UNCJIN Statistics and Research Sources: Links to other world, regional and governmental data collections.
Australia
Australian Crime Facts and Figures: statistical information on crime throughout Australia
Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research: New South Wales: A wide variety of statistics on crime, courts and other law-enforcement related issues are available here, including their latest crime statistics reports.
Crime Statistics from Statistics Queensland: Many subsets of information on crime-related statistics are available through this site.
Facts and Figures 2000: Presented by the Australian Institute of Criminology
Canada
Family Violence in Canada: Downloadable statistical collections from 1998 - 2005.
Statistics Canada's Canadian Justice and Crime Statistics: A breakdown of statistical information, including breakdowns by type of crime, victim, area, offender, police service and court.
Statistics Canada's Database Search Engine: From this page you can search all StatCan's databases.
Scotland
1996 Scottish Crime Survey: The results from this extensive survey on crime victimization in Scotland.
United Kingdom
United Kingdom Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate (RDS) Publications: A listing of research papers, statistical information and factsheets published by the RDS.
Crime in England and Wales 2004/2005: This is the fourth report in an annual publication that combines the reporting of police recorded crime and the British Crime Survey (BCS) results.
United States
Bureau of Justice Statistics : A division of the US Dept. of Justice, BJS collects and analyzes statistics on all matters pertaining to crime, law enforcement ,offenders, victims, courts, corrections and other data. A goldmine of information. Some subsets of this site are:
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Publications: An overview of all BJS publications... a "must see"!
- Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
- Contacts between Police and the Public: Findings from the 1999 National Survey
- Corrections Statistics
- Crime and Justice Data Online: An easy to use resource which allows the researcher to "drill down" to exactly the information needed in the listed categories.
- Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts: Statistical information drawn from a wide variety of sources, presented in spreadsheet format.
- Crime and Victims Statistics: Statistics on general victimization, victimization and crime broken down by demographics and characteristics, as well as information on the National Crime Victim Survey and the National Incident-based Reporting System can all be found here.
- Criminal Victimization Statistics 2002, 2003, 2004: 110 tables with detailed data on major variables measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
- Guns and Crime - Handgun Victimization, Firearm Self-Defense and Firearm Theft: This report provides new estimates of the extent of handgun crime in the United States, as well as the first estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey of thefts of firearms and the extent of firearm use for self-defense, using data from 1987 through 1992.
- Intimate Partner Violence: This analysis by the US Bureau of Justice Statistics of the National Crime Victimization Survey is heavily quoted by domestic violence advocates. This link is presented so those interested can view the statistics directly and in context. A text summary is available, as is their latest update, IVP 1993-2001
- Key Crime and Justice Facts at a Glance: Charts and brief statements on major trends and facts drawn from US national criminal justice statistics.
- Rape and Sexual Assault - Reporting to the Police 1992-2000
- Third-Party Involvement in Violent Crime, 1993-99: Third parties are persons other than the offender(s) and lone victim interviewed. Third parties include bystanders, other victims, household members, police officers, instigators, or any combination of these. Data includes how the actions of third parties may influence the outcome of events (prevent or cause additional injury, help the victim escape, help capture the offender, etc.).
- Urban, Suburban, and Rural Victimization (1993-98): An analysis of crime patterns by area of habitation.
- Violent Victimization and Race (1938-1998): An analysis of crime patterns by race.
- Sex Offenses and Offenders: Drawn from more than two dozen datasets, this collection gives much information on sexual offences, victimization and criminal justice issues.
Guide to Abstracts and Bibliographies of Readily Available Data Sets on Crime and Criminal Justice: Learn how researchers use the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) data sets at the American Statistical Association's new Web site, Guide to Abstracts and Bibliographies of Readily Available Data Sets on Crime and Criminal Justice. The purpose of this site is to provide information on the many BJS data sets on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Available on this site are abstracts and bibliographies of many studies that used BJS data sets. The BJS hopes that by providing this information, other people will learn about and use BJS data sets in their research. The site is sponsored by the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center: Funded by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJSRC) maintains the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database, which contains information about suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system. Using data obtained from Federal agencies, the FJSP compiles comprehensive information describing defendants from each stage of Federal criminal case processing. They maintain a searchable database with downloadable datasets.
Fedstats: One stop shopping for US federal statistics, drawn from over 70 agencies.
Hate Crime Statistics 2004: The FBI's yearly report on this issue.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data: NACJD acquires, processes, stores and provides access to a host of criminal justice data collections. They provide downloadable access to over 550 criminal justice data, research, surveys and statistical collections.
National Center for Victims of Crime Statistics Collection: Statistics on a wide variety of crimes/victims, gathered from a number of sources.
National Center on Elder Abuse: A large and extremely useful site, it includes an information and statistical Clearinghouse.
National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics: A central information site leading to a wide variety of sources on statistics, computer and IT information and development and other resources related to US Criminal Justice
National Criminal Justice Resource Service (NCJRS) Victim Statistics Collection: A gathering of statistical resources dealing with victims of crime from a variety of sources.
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect: NDACAN is an organization which facilitates the secondary analysis of child abuse and neglect datasets with statistical software such as SPSS or SAS. Other services include a child maltreatment research electronic mailing list and an annual research institute for secondary analysis with on-hand technical assistance.
OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book: This resources provides basic information on juvenile crime and victimization and on youth involved in the juvenile justice system. Data in presented in six topical headings to provide timely and reliable statistical answers to the most frequently asked questions of policymakers, the media, and the general public.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics: This site presents the Sourcebook, compilation of which is an annual event and an ongoing process. As such, updates of tables and new data sources continually are received and prepared for presentation in the next edition. The site will be updated regularly to reflect these new data as they will appear in the next edition.
State Statistical Analysis Center: Containing links to state statistics. The SACs are agencies at the state government level which use operational, management, and research information from all components of the criminal justice system to conduct objective analyses of statewide and system-wide policy issues. There are currently SACs in 52 states and territories.
The Disaster Center -- United States Crime Statistics From 1960 -2000: A complete state-by-state listing of crime statistics.
University of Michigan's Document Center - Statistical Resources on the Web: Links to statistic resources on almost anything you can think of will be found here.
