Library Guides: CRIM 480: Research Topics in Crime, Law and Justice: Statistics & Data

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Data Planet This link opens in a new window
Excellent for time series statistics in a wide range of topics. Focus is on the United States and Canada with some international resources.
Online service that enables researchers to build statistical tables and charts from multiple sources in a single interface. Data includes a wide range of social and demographic data both from the US and international sources.

Google search engines for reports containing statistics:

Intergovernmental Organization Search Engine
Allows you to cross search most of the major international intergovernmental organzations such as the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, World Health Organization and many more [Google custom search]
Nongovernmental Organizations Search Engine
A specialized Google search engine designed to search across NGO organizations.
Think Tank Search
A Google Custom Search of more than 1200 think tanks and research centers from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
Topical Index that include: corrections, courts, crime prevention, drugs, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Statistics for: crime and victims, criminal offenders, law enforcement, prosecution, federal justice system, courts & sentencing, corrections, expenditure & employment, and criminal record systems.
Corrections Statistics : Bureau of Justice Statistics
Capital punishment, jails, prisons, probation and parole, adult correctional populations, incarceration rate, and related codebooks & data sets
Courts and Sentencing Statistics : Bureau of Justice Statistics
Pretrial release and detention, criminal case processing, criminal sentencing, civil justice, court organization, indigent defense, and related codebooks & data sets.
Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) : Crime in the United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJSRC)
Databases which contains information about suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Sections include: criminal justice characteristics, public opinion, crime, victims, arrests, seizures, courts, prosecution, sentencing, parole, jail, and prison.

United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network
UNICRI is a United Nations entity established in 1967 to support countries worldwide in preventing crime and facilitating criminal justice.
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
UNODC is mandated to assist Member States in their struggle against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism.
International Criminal Justice Institutes, Organizations, and Resources
From the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) an international association established in 1963 to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
Data Resource Guides: capital punishment, expenditure & employment for the criminal justice system, National Crime Victimization Survey, National Incident-Based Reporting System, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, and an extensive list of data subjects.
National Addiction & HIV Data Archive
The mission of the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program is to facilitate research on drug addiction and HIV infection by acquiring, enhancing, preserving, and sharing data produced by research grants, particularly those funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
A general interdisciplinary data archive for the social sciences
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a membership-based, non-profit data archive located at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. It serves member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad by providing: Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data, Training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques, Resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies. PSU users get access to ICPSR by creating an individual account using their PSU e-mail ID. This is what identifies them as a PSU affiliate. We do not have IP access. Go to: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp - See login at top left. Note: occasionally you will need to login using a computer on campus to validate that you are still a PSU affiliate.