Statistics

The California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation maintains a number of reports compiled regularly by the State of California.

Publications and various topics compiled by the federal agency responsible for collecting and disseminating crime statistics.

Includes summaries of issues related to juvenile justice.

Crimes reported to law enforcement agencies around the U.S., compiled annual by the FBI.

NCJRS provides full-text of collected government and local agency reports (NCJRS Virtual Library) and citations to an even wider-variety of CJ research from federal, state and local agencies (NCJRS Abstracts).

Links to research, program development and evaluation of justice programs with an emphasis on scientific evidence.

Annuals survey of crime victims (including crimes not reported to law enforcement).

USAFacts is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan civic initiative making government data easy for all Americans to access and understand. We provide accessible analysis on US spending and outcomes in order to ground public debates in facts

The Brennan Center for Justice is an independent, nonpartisan law and policy organization that works to reform, revitalize, and when necessary, defend our country’s systems of democracy and justice.

The Cato Institute is a public policy research organization — a think tank — dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Its scholars and analysts conduct independent, nonpartisan research on a wide range of policy issues.

The Center for Court Innovation creates operating programs to test new ideas and solve problems, performs original research to determine what works (and what doesn't), and provides expert assistance to justice reformers around the world.

The Justice Research and Statistics Association is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the use of nonpartisan research and analysis to inform criminal and juvenile justice decisionmaking.

The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges. Justice, Infrastructure, & Environment reports on justice policy, specifically homeland security and defense, as well as, civil justice.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. Pew Research Center does not take policy positions. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts.

The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society.

Reason Foundation advances a free society by developing, applying, and promoting libertarian principles, including individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law.

The Urban Institute is the trusted source for unbiased, authoritative insights that inform consequential choices about the well-being of people and places in the United States.

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