Criminal Justice

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. Statistics are located under these broad categories: Corrections, Courts and Sentencing, Crime Type, Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program, Employment and Expenditure, Federal, Law Enforcement, Victims.

Search over 1000 departments by name, region, or zip code. CityProtect tabulates incident informationcollected from Motorola’s 1,000-plus law enforcement agency customers.

A source for comparable state court caseload data from the National Center for State Courts.

Online archive of gun violence incidents collected from over 7,500 law enforcement, media, government and commercial sources daily in an effort to provide near-real time data about the results of gun violence. GVA is an independent data collection and research group with no affiliation with any advocacy organization.

The NACJD archives and disseminates data on crime and justice for secondary analysis. The archive contains data from over 2,700 curated studies or statistical data series. NACJD is home to several large-scale and well known datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).

From the Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquincy Prevention, the Statistical Briefing Book contains publications, data sets, & analysis tools relating to US crimes by juveniles.

Several annual statistical publications are produced, through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States. Includes: The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), Law Enforcement Agency Reported Crime Analysis Tool (LEARCAT), Hate Crime Statistics, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA), The National Use-of-Force Data Collection, and the FBI Crime Data Explorer (CDE) interactive tool.

Federal sentencing statistics by state, district & circuit, reports to Congress, manuals, annual reports, & statistical sourcebooks.

Drawing on official law enforcement statistics, Wolfram|Alpha allows you to research and analyze property and violent crime in US cities and states using natural language queries. Compare burglary or robbery rates among multiple places, visualize trends in violent crime in your state or generate a custom summary of crime statistics for nearby cities.

Includes data on prison and parole populations, outcomes, and inmate releases.

Includes 44 data categories and the Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System.

Includes monthly statistics reports for the Pennsylvania Parole Board.

The Philadelphia District Attorney Office's public data dashboard.

The Forms and Documents searchable database contains many statistical reports.

Past Crime Stats and Homicide Reports. All of the following Part I crime statistics are preliminary, and have not been finalized according to UCR guidelines.

Data on crime, police, courts, and prisons from the European Union.

Program of standardized sample surveys to look at a householders' experience with crime, policing, crime prevention, and feelings of insecurity for purposes of comparing crime rates in different nations. Also available at ICPSR.

Transparency International is an international NGO devoted to combating corruption. Their Research site includes a Anti-Corruption Knowledge Hub, a Global Corruption Report with chapters on various forms of corruption and country profiles, and, several data sources: Global Corruption Barometer, Corruption Perceptions Index, and a Bribe Payers Index. The scores they publish are useful for doing country comparisons.

UNODC collects data on drugs, crime and criminal justice from UN member states. See also the UNODC Research page for research reports.

Data collected by the United Nations on the incidence of reported crime and the operations of criminal justice systems. Also available at ICPSR.

StAR Asset Recovery Watch is a public database that tracks efforts by prosecution authorities worldwide to go after assets that stem from corruption. Search the database by keywords or jurisdictions, years, or other fields. The entire dataset is also downloadable.