Criminal Justice

Topics include courts, crimes, corrections, victims, etc.

Published from 1872 to 2012. Includes charts and tables on law enforcement, courts and prisons.

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has been the starting place for law enforcement executives, students of criminal justice, researchers, members of the media, and the public at large seeking information on crime in the nation. The program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet the need for reliable uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics.

The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) was implemented to improve the quality of crime data collected by law enforcement by capturing detailed information on each single crime occurrence. Designed for law enforcement, the NIBRS has the flexibility to gather administrative facts on crime incidents as well as varied information about the victims, offenses, arrestees, and property involved in them. Accordingly, the offenses are categorized as Crimes Against Persons, Crimes Against Property, and Crimes Against Society.

Brings together data from 200+ sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States.

Provides free access to thousands of state, federal and local government reports on criminal justice topics.

The OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book (SBB) enables users to access online information learn more about juvenile crime and victimization and about youth involved in the juvenile justice system.

The Attorney General is a constitutionally-elected officer of the state’s Executive Branch of government and is responsible for defending the legal interest of the State of Kansas in all actions and proceedings, civil and criminal. The State Library's Kansas Government Information (KGI) Online Library has a wide variety of digitized publications of the Kansas Attorney General's Office, past and present, for general interest and in depth research. Annual reports, statistics, news releases and other information are available to the public:

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is dedicated to providing professional investigative, laboratory and criminal justice information services to criminal justice agencies for the purpose of promoting public safety and preventing crime in Kansas.

These dashboards contain the most recent annual reports for the Kansas Department of Corrections. Reports include Offender Recidivism, Population Projections, Summary of Offenses, and more.

The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

The collateral consequences of a criminal conviction—legal sanctions and restrictions imposed upon people because of their criminal record—are hard to find and harder to understand. Now it will be easier to do both. Congress directed the National Institute of Justice to collect and study collateral consequences in all U.S. jurisdictions, and NIJ selected the ABA Criminal Justice Section to perform the necessary research and analysis. The results are now being made available through this interactive tool.

The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization whose mission is to reduce society’s reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems. In pursuit of this mission, CJCJ provides direct services, technical assistance, and policy analysis that work in unison to promote a balanced and humane criminal justice system designed to reduce incarceration and enhance long-term public safety.

Picture Projects and National Public Radio (NPR) present a unique collection of first-person stories, interviews, and audio diaries from inmates, correctional officers, lawyers, judges, parole officers, parents, victims, and more on the real criminal justice system. Features a timeline exploring the creation of prisons as we know them today.

The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) is an international association established in 1963 to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice. ACJS promotes criminal justice education, research, and policy analysis within the discipline of criminal justice for both educators and practitioners.

The oldest and largest international correctional association in the world, ACA serves all disciplines within the corrections profession and is dedicated to excellence in every aspect of the field.

The American Society of Criminology is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency.

Established in 1985 as the Western Regional Office of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NCIA), the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization promoting a balanced and humane criminal justice system through the provision of direct services, technical assistance, and policy analysis. The site focuses on services in the state of California.