Title: Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online

Source/Sponsoring Agency: United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics

URL: http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/

Date Checked:       Status: Active

Date Annotated: 1/22/99

Topics: Civil Rights; Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Women and the Law

Other keywords: Judiciary; Juvenile Justice; Statistics

Contents: The online version of the United States Department of Justice Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (25th ed., Oct. 1998). Tables are in Adobe Acrobat format; the user can first view complete lists of the tables, and the website is searchable by keyword. The Sourcebook is divided into several sections, including criminal justice agencies (data on numbers of personnel, expenditures, state information); opinion polls on topics such as crime, gun control, the death penalty, and the (de)criminalization of abortion and homosexuality; and statistics on victimization, drug use, other illegal activities, offenses reported, persons arrested, cases cleared, defendants processed, and "persons under correctional supervision," including parolees and juveniles.

Author of Annotation: Anne Carson