Contents
Below is a list of links to the contents of the six Sourcebook sections.
- Section 1 - Characteristics of the criminal justice systems
- Section 2 - Public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice-related topics
- Section 3 - Nature and distribution of known offenses
- Section 4 - Characteristics and distribution of persons arrested
- Section 5 - Judicial processing of defendants
- Section 6 - Persons under correctional supervision
Section 1 - Characteristics of the criminal justice systems
Corrections
- Education programs in prisons and jails
- Expenditures
- Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities and staff
- Jails and jail staff
- Private jails
- State, Federal, and private correctional facilities and staff
Courts
- Appropriations, salaries, and personnel for the Federal judiciary
- Characteristics of Presidential appointees to Federal courts
- Criminal cases filed per judgeship in U.S. District Courts
- Duties performed by magistrate judges in U.S. District Courts
- Investigative reports by Federal probation officers
- Jury fees in State and Federal courts
- Petit and grand jurors in U.S. District Courts
- Prosecutors in State courts
- Salaries and selection process for State court judges
- U.S. attorneys, personnel and work hours
Finance
- Corrections expenditures
- Criminal justice expenditures
- Criminal justice employment and payroll
- Edward Byrne Law Enforcement Assistance funds
- Federal budget authorities for criminal justice activities
- Federal drug control funding
Judges
- Appropriations, salaries, and personnel for the Federal judiciary
- Characteristics of Presidential appointees to Federal courts
- Salaries and selection process for State court judges
Law enforcement
- College and university campus police
- Complaints about police use of force
- Employment, payroll, and personnel expenditures
- Federal law enforcement officers and agencies
- Female and minority police officers in large cities
- Large city police departments
- Local police departments
- Salaries
- Sheriffs' offices
- Special jurisdiction agencies
- State and local police employment and payroll, combined totals
- State police agencies
- Tribal law enforcement agencies
Other
- Background checks for firearm transfers
- Statutory provisions related to alcohol use and driving
Section 2 - Public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice-related topics
Capital punishment
- Applied to select groups
- Attitudes, general
- Deterrent
- Fairness
- Penalty for murder
- Reasons favoring or opposing
- Student attitudes
Crime
- Approaches to lowering the crime rate
- Fear
- Level of spending for the problems of crime and drugs
- Perceptions of crime and safety in U.S. and neighborhoods
- Progress coping with drugs
- Responses to concern about crime
- Student attitudes
Courts
- Death penalty
- Judges, honesty and ethics
- Penalty for murder
- Severity of local courts
- Student attitudes
- Treatment of juveniles who commit violent crime
- U.S. Supreme Court
Drugs
- Availability
- Disapproval
- Legalization of marijuana
- Level of spending on drug addiction
- Perceptions of the harmfulness of drug and alcohol use
- Progress coping with drug problem
- Severity of drug problem
Guns
- Gun control policies
- Ownership
- Safety in the home
- Student attitudes
Police
Honesty and ethics- Increased law enforcement powers
- Performance and fairness
- Public confidence
- Racial profiling
- Student attitudes
- Use of force, brutality
Public confidence
- Criminal justice system
- Government protecting citizens from terrorism
- Institutions
- Police
- U.S. Supreme Court
Students
College freshmen
- Legalization of marijuana
- Abortion
- The courts
- Capital punishment
- Homosexual relations
- Gun control
- Disapproving of drug use
High school seniors
- Legalization of marijuana
- Performance of selected institutions
- Performance of the courts and justice system
- Performance of the police
- Social problems
- Perceptions of availability of drugs
Schools
- Drug testing and locker searches
- Problems and fear in schools
Social and other issues
- Abortion
- Doctor-assisted suicide
- Drinking age, underage drinking laws
- Environment
- Ethics of various occupations, lawyers, police, and judges
- Fairness of criminal justice system
- Homosexual relations
- Important problems for country, government, and teenagers
- Pornography
- Rehabilitation
Terrorism
- Government's ability to reduce threat, protect citizens
- Civil liberties
- Fear
- Torture
Section 3 - Nature and distribution of known offenses
Alcohol and drugs
- Alcohol and drugs as family problems
- Alcohol use and frequency of use
- Drinking and driving
- Drug-related emergency department episodes
- Fatalities in alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes
- Use among college students
- Use among high school and other students
- Use among military personnel
- Use among the U.S. population
- Use among young adults
Crime
- Aggravated assault
- Arson
- Average loss incurred for selected offenses
- Bank fraud investigations
- Bias-motivated (hate) crime
- Bombing incidents
- Burglary
- Firearm-related homicide
- In Federal parks
- Known to police
- Larceny-theft
- Motor vehicle theft
- Murder
- Murder and other violence by intimate partners
- Murder victims and offenders
- Rape, forcible
- Related to air transportation
- Robbery
- Sniper attacks
- Terrorism
- Violations of Federal bank robbery statutes
- Violent and property crime in U.S. cities
- Workplace violence
Law enforcement officers
- Accidentally killed
- Assaulted
- Feloniously killed
- Killed in Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
- Persons identified in killing of law enforcement officers
Students
College students and young adults
- Binge drinking, violence, and harassment
- Self-reported drug and alcohol use
- Delinquency and victimization at school
High school students
- Self-reported delinquency
- Self-reported drug and alcohol use
- Traffic accidents
- Traffic accidents while under the influence of alcohol or drugs
- Traffic violations
- Traffic violations while under the influence of alcohol or drugs
- Victimization experiences
- Victimization at school
- Reporting problem behaviors and delinquency
- Self-reported drug and alcohol use
- Suicide
Victimization
- At school
- Households experiencing crime
- Identity theft
- Intimate partners
- Lone-offender victimizations
- Multiple-offender victimizations
- Personal and property victimization
- Place of occurrence
- Property victimizations
- Reporting and not reporting victimization to police
- Self-protective measures employed by victims
- Victim-offender relationship in violent victimization
- Violent and personal victimization
- Weapon use in personal victimization
Other
- Suicide
Section 4 - Characteristics and distribution of persons arrested
Arrests
- Age of persons arrested
- Alcohol-related
- Cities
- Drug-related
- Federal offenses
- Number and rate of arrests, national estimates
- Offense charged
- Property crimes
- Race of persons arrested
- Rural counties
- Sex of persons arrested
- State
- Suburban areas
- Violent crimes
Clearances
- Offenses cleared by arrest
- Offenses cleared by arrest of persons under 18 years of age
Seizures
- Arrests and assets seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration
- Drug and property seizures by the U.S. Customs Service
- Drug seizures by Federal agencies
- Seizures of marijuana operations and illegal drug laboratories
- Value of asset forfeitures by U.S. attorneys
Other
- Deportable aliens located and removed
- Drug and alcohol use by adult male arrestees
- Juveniles taken into police custody
- Mail bomb incidents investigated
Section 5 - Judicial processing of defendants
Juvenile courts
- Characteristics of juvenile offenders
- Dispositions
Large county courts
- Characteristics of felony defendants
- Convictions of felony defendants
- Felony defendants, number
- Pretrial processing of felony defendants
- Prior convictions of felony defendants
- Sentencing of felony defendants
State courts
- Characteristics of defendants
- Convictions, sentences per 100 arrests
- Felons sentenced to additional penalties
- Felony convictions
- Sentences imposed
- Time to sentencing
U.S. Courts of Appeals
- Appeals filed, terminated, and pending
U.S. District Courts
- Antitrust cases filed
- Cases filed, terminated, and pending
- Case dispositions, convictions
- Defendants detained
- Drug law violators, case dispositions and sentences
- Pretrial release and detention
- Prisoner petitions
- Sentences imposed
- Time to disposition of cases
U.S. Sentencing Commission guidelines
- Application
- Citizens and non-citizens sentenced
- Departures
U.S. Supreme Court
- Cases argued
- Cases filed, disposed, and pending
- Writ of certiorari petitions
Other
- Abuse of public office cases
- Arrests and convictions handled by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service
- Convictions resulting from arrests by the Drug Enforcement Administration
- Courts-martial cases of the U.S. armed forces
- Executive clemency applications
- Grand jury proceedings and cases filed and disposed of by U.S. attorneys
- Immigration offenders processed
- Wiretaps, interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications
- Prosecutions and convictions for violations of immigration and nationality laws
- Requests for immunity by Federal prosecutors
Section 6 - Persons under correctional supervision
Adults under correctional supervision
- National estimates
- States
Community supervision
- Adults on parole
- Adults on probation
- Educational attainment and participation in education programs
- Federal offenders under community supervision
- Federal probationers terminating supervision
- Federal supervised release and parole terminations
- Parolees returned to incarceration
- Persons under supervision of the Federal Probation System
- State parole discharges
Death row
- Murders, death sentences, and executions: trends
- Hispanic and female prisoners under sentence of death
- Methods of execution
- Prisoners executed
- Prisoners under sentence of death
Federal prisoners
- Admissions and releases
- Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees
- Characteristics
- Deaths and AIDS-related deaths
- Educational attainment and education programs
- Female
- HIV/AIDS
- Housed in private facilities and local jails
- Immigration offenders
- Incarceration rates
- Noncitizens
- Number
- Offenders returning to Federal prison
- Offenses
- Possessing firearms during offense
- Sexual violence
- Time served
- Veterans
Jail inmates
- Characteristics
- Deaths and AIDS-related deaths
- Drug and alcohol use
- Educational attainment and education programs
- Fifty largest jail jurisdictions
- HIV/AIDS
- In Indian country
- Number and incarceration rates
- Offenses
- Sexual violence
- Supervision programs
Juveniles
- Deaths in juvenile facilities
- In residential custody facilities
- Prisoners under age 18 in State prisons
State prisoners
- Admissions and releases
- Characteristics
- Current offense
- Deaths and AIDS-related deaths
- Educational attainment and education programs
- Female
- HIV/AIDS
- Housed in private facilities and local jails
- Incarceration rates
- Noncitizens
- Number
- Possessing firearms during offense
- Prison population growth
- Recidivism
- Sexual violence
- Time served
- Under age 18
- Veterans
Other
- Drug and alcoholism treatment facilities
- Mental health treatment in prisons
- Military correctional facilities
- State sex offender registries