Today the Commission, by a majority vote, allowed for delayed retroactive application of Amendment 821 relating to criminal history—meaning that certain currently incarcerated individuals could be...
Join the Bureau of Justice Statistics on September 27, 2023, for the 50th anniversary celebration of the National Crime Victimization Survey, one of the nation’s two sources of crime data. The event...
The Committee on Law and Justice’s (CLAJ) mission is to improve government decision making and public policy and promote the understanding and dissemination of research in matters involving law and...
OJJDP has launched a new volunteer internship program for law students interested in the youth justice and child welfare fields. This is an ongoing program with semester-long positions available...
Cynthia Lum and Christopher S. Koper, Editors-In-Chief of Criminology & Public Policy, the flagship policy journal of the American Society of Criminology, are proud to announce the call for...
Publication Series: Recidivism of Prisoners Released Description: This report presents findings on recidivism of females from BJS’s study on persons released from state prison across 34 states in...
The American Statistical Association recently published an article in their member magazine AMSTATNEWS based on Dr. Janet L. Lauritsen’s 2022 presidential address to the American Society of...