Statistical Experts Warn of Looming Threats to Vital Official Data

Jul 9, 2024 | News

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9, 2024 – As the nation wraps up celebrations of its birth 248 years ago, a first-ever comprehensive report about the status of the federal statistical system—informing and powering the progress of the world’s oldest democracy since the first...

Public comments requested on the Extension of a Currently Approved Collection: National Corrections Reporting Program

Jul 3, 2024 | News

BJS encourages comments for 60 days through September 3, 2024, on the extension of a currently approved collection: National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP). Your comments on BJS’s request to the Office of Management and Budget, which is published in the Federal...

Public comments requested on the revision of a currently approved BJS data collection: School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

Jun 18, 2024 | News

BJS encourages comments for 60 days through August 19, 2024, on the School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) data collection. Your comments on BJS’s request to the Office of Management and Budget, which is published in...

COPS – Technology-Facilitated Violence

Mar 19, 2024 | Publication

Technology-facilitated violence (TFV) such as doxing, swatting, or cyberstalking is a cybercrime that harms victims via use of the internet and mobile technology. This publication is a resource that will assist state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) agencies in...

U.S. Sentencing Commission released its 2023 Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics

Mar 5, 2024 | News

The Sourcebook presents information on the 64,124 individuals sentenced in fiscal year 2023—a federal caseload that held steady from the previous year. The Sourcebook provides the public with a comprehensive and timely compilation of information received and analyzed...