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United State's primary source for criminal justice statistics
What is the Bureau of Justice Statistical Agency?
The percent change in United States' prison population from 2011-2021
What is -24.7%?
(Data Source: BJS)
Survey that collects data from all federal law enforcement agencies with arrest and firearms authority
What is Census of Federal Law Enforcement Officers (FLEO)?
The change in number of releases from prison between 2020 and 2021
What is a 19% decline?
The official Bureau of Justice Statistics Twitter Account where the department shares its latest reports
What is @BJSgov?
The oldest juvenile justice research group in the United States
What is National Center for Juvenile Justice?
States that had the highest increase and decrease in the percentage of people in prison between 2020-2021
What is North Dakota (21% increase) and Washington (13% decrease)?
The number of federal law enforcement agents employed in the US in 2020
What is 137,000?
The trend in prison releases across states from 2020-2021
What is decrease in releases in 48 states?
In a tweet posted on March 8, this twitter account said "women make up only 12% of officers and 3% of police leadership in the U.S."
What is @DOJBJA the twitter account of the Bureau of Justice Assistance?
An archive that disseminates data on crime and justice for secondary analysis and contains data from over 3,100 curated studies/statistical data series
What is the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)?
Race with the highest and lowest decrease in the percent of sentenced prisoners between 2011-2021
What is Black (31.8%) and Asian (14%)?
What is 61% white, 10% black, 21% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 1% American Indian or Alaskan Native, and less than 1% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander?
State with the largest dectine in number of releases from 2020-2021?
What is California (down by 14,100)?
This twitter account shares nonpartisan criminal jsutice news and recently posted about FBI data indicating a rise in hate related crime in 2021
What is the Marshall Project's twitter account @MarshallProj?
An NCJJ publication that profiles delinquency cases processed by courts with juvenile jurisdiction and tracks trends in delinquency
What is Juvenile Court Statistics?
States with the highest and lowest imprisonment rate in 2021
What is Mississippi (575 per 100,000 state residents) and Massachusetts (96 per 100,000 state residents)?
The percentage of male law enforcement officers in 2016 vs 2020
What is 86.3% vs 85.5%?
State with the largest percentage decline in number of releases?
What is New Jersey (down by 50%)?
The official twitter account of the Director of the National Institue of Justice where one can find the institute's "research priorities, investments, and evidence to promote safer communities and a more equitable justice system"
What is Nacy La Vigne's twitter account: @NIJDirLaVigne?
The nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization with data obtained from a nationally representative sample of about 240,000 persons in about 150,000 households
What is the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)?
The trend in admissions to federal prison from 2020-2021
What is a 54% increase?
The executive department with the largest percentage decrease in the number of officers from 2016 to 2020?
What is the Department of the Interior (18% decrease)?
The number of arrests following placement on federal community supervision in 2005 (uptil 2010)
What is 43%?
On April 15, this twitter account tweeted that "Between 1980 and 2021, the number of incarcerated women increased by more than 525%."
What is the twitter account of The Sentencing Project @SentencingProj?