Replete with statistics on types of crime and juvenile justice issues. Full text or summaries of federal, state, and local reports on crime, courts, law enforcement, juvenile justice and the victims of crime. Criminal victimization, its cost, offender characteristics, terrorisim, and long term effects on victim. Data taken from various U.S. government agencies. Detailed statistics on criminal offenses and arrests, the criminal justice system, judicial processing of offenders and corrections.
Most data is available at a national level only.
Each chapter has a table of contents but is also searchable. Data appears solely in Adobe Acrobat. Analyzes safest cities, crime changes, and crime per population for places of 100,000 or more based on 1996 preliminary data. Arrests includes total, adult and juvenile. Fact sheets on firearm violence and manufacturing.