LibGuides: Statistics and Datasets: Criminal Justice

Data sets

data.gov
The site is a repository for federal government information, made available to the public, as a part of the 2009 US Open Government directive.
Humanitarian Data Exchange
This open data-sharing platform is maintained by the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data easy to find and use for analysis.
UN Office On Drugs and Crime Statistics Division
Provides drug indicator data, including use and health consequences, production, and trafficking. It also provides such criminal justice statistics as crime, homicide, and special reports. Data maybe be downloaded as a data set or PDF.

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
*Create a free ICPSR account using your Marymount email to access and download data. ICPSR provides access to social science data sets, including 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. Some datasets are restricted access. If you have questions about accessing restricted data, contact a librarian.
Check out the ICPSR research guide for assistance in creating an account, finding and downloading datasets, and more. Click Here.

United States Statistics

U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
Statistics and reports compiled by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) - Juvenile Justice Statistics
The OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book provides online data sources by topic, data snapshots, data sets and data tools. This website provides access to the Compendium of National Juvenile Justice Data Sets. Also use the Library & Multimedia link to search for statistical briefings and other publications.
U.S. Border Patrol
See right-hand side bar of site for subjects of available statistics. Statistics include: border sector profiles; apprehensions by sector; and nationwide apprehensions. Scroll through specific statistical reports for potential historical data.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
More than 15 data resource guides about data sources including annual data on capital punishment prisoners; homicides; national juvenile corrections; and violence against women. A selection of NACJD data collections is available for online data analysis. [Click tab for Analyze Data Online.]
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The mission of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) is to facilitate research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) Publications
The FBI issues several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the United States. From this page, also see the FBI Crime Data Explorer to search across multiple data sources.
CrimeMapping
This portal is dedicated to helping law enforcement agencies provide the public with valuable information about crime activity by neighborhood. Notes jurisdictions by state that provide criminal activity reports and displays graphically and numerically types of crimes.
Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA)
The Justice Research and Statistics Association is a national nonprofit organization of state Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) directors, researchers, and practitioners throughout government, academia, and criminal justice organizations dedicated to policy-orientated research and analysis
United States Census Bureau
The standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations.

International Statistics

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
One of the key tasks of UNODC is to produce and disseminate accurate drugs and crime statistics at the international level. UNODC also works to strengthen national capacity to produce, disseminate and use drugs and crime statistics within the framework of official statistics. Data includes annual comprehensive drug report; global report on trafficking of persons; and international drug and crime statistics.
European Crime and Safety International Crime Victimization Survey (EU ICS)
The survey compares levels of victimisation across the EU and measures how citizens feel about their security and safety. It analyses the relationships between the EU citizens' views on their quality of life and the levels of neighbourhood crime across the EU (the EU-15, Estonia, Poland and Hungary) - all independent of actual police records.
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The survey was carried out in the 15 old member states of the Union plus Poland, Hungary and Estonia. The study was co-funded by the European Commission, DG.
CIA: The World Factbook
Political, geographic, economic, and sociological summaries organized by country.