Create graphs and charts using crime data from the most up-to-date Uniform Crime Reports. The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) from the FBI provide official crime counts for the United States. The UCR is based on the submission of statistics by city, county, state, tribal, university and college, and federal law enforcement agencies.
The survey provides information about victims (age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status, income, and educational level), offenders (sex, race, approximate age, and victim-offender relationship), and the crimes (time and place of occurrence, use of weapons, nature of injury, and economic consequences). Includes data on crimes not reported to the police.
Many scholars believe official US crime statistics to be inaccurate, especially hate crime statistics. Here are a few sources that explain how crime statistics are collected and perceived flaws in the system.
Confused about which crime measure to use? Read this guide from the Bureau of Justice Statistics that gives a clear comparison of the two measures and explains the advantages and disadvantages for each.
Liberty Vittert, Visiting Assistant Professor in Statistics, Washington University in St Louis explains flaws in crime statistics for The Conversation.
This chapter includes tables on arrests, correctional facilities and prisoners, courts, crime and crime rates, criminal justice expenditures, criminal victimization, fire losses, juvenile delinquency and child abuse. Click on Sec 5. Law Enforcement, Courts, and Prisons in the menu on the left.
This electronic book brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. The site is updated regularly as new statistics become available and is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
