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Criminal Justice Research Guide: Statistical Data

A good starting point for finding resources in criminal justice

General Stats

European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics - 

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data - From the Inter-University Consortium for Political and  Social Research, University of Michigan. A collection of data sets compiled by government agencies and individual researchers. To download data, you must be at a computer where you can copy files to a local disk.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online - brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. Archives go back to 1994 and the site is updated annually. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader®.

Uniform Crime Reports - From US FBI. Data on crimes reported and cleared, persons arrested, drugs in America. Also contains "Crime in the United States", an annual publication from 1995 +

US Bureau of Justice Statistics - Data on crime victims, criminal offenders, law enforcement personnel, prisoners, and corrections staff.

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