Crime

=Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online=

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 1,000 tables. The site is updated regularly as new statistics become available. The Sourcebook is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justic Statistics. The print version of the sourcebook stopped updating in 2003. It is still possible to buy the 2003 sourcebook, but for the most up-to-date statistics, the online version is the only option.



=Bureau of Justice Statistics=

The Bureau of Justice Statistics is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. Their mission is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. The Bureau of Justice Statistics was first established on December 27, 1979. It is a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice.



=Crime in the United States, 2008=

The Uniform Crime Reporting Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. //Crime in the United States// is one of the publications that resulted from this task. Since 1996, editions of //Crime in the United States// have been available on the FBI’s Web site. Now in the most recent 2008 version, it is designed so that data users can download Microsoft Excel spreadsheets of the data tables and Microsoft Word documents of much of the texts presented.