This guide provides links to the most useful databases and resources for finding statistics and data on a wide range of topics, including:
General U.S. data
Health
Education
Economy
Population
Crime
Transportation
"The Death Penalty Information Center is a national non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment."
The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal clinic that focuses on wrongful convictions in the prison system. Includes a helpful Fact Sheet and other information.
JRSA conducts and publishes multi-state, policy-relevant research on justice issues; provides training and technical assistance to build research and evaluation capacity and knowledge of evidence-based practices at the state and local levels; and maintains information on state criminal and juvenile justice research and programs.
This section of the US Statistical Abstract includes data on crimes committed, victims of crimes, arrests, and data related to criminal violations and the criminal justice system.
Our mission: to facilitate research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data.
