Frequently Asked Questions

The number of children abducted by individuals who are outside of their family is available in Nonfamily Abducted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). For additional information, visit the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children website. Also see Child Victims of Stereotypical Kidnappings Known to Law Enforcement in 2011, an OJJDP bulletin.

Statistics on burglary offenses (as well as other types of crime) are found in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) annual report, Crime in the United States. Also visit the FBI's Crime Data Explorer, an interactive tool that presents charts and graphs that break down data in a variety of ways.

The following resources provide information and data on the impact of correctional education:

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education
• The Use and Impact of Correctional Programming for Inmates on Pre- and Post-Release Outcomes
• How Effective Is Correctional Education, and Where Do We Go From Here? The Results of a Comprehensive Evaluation
• The Effects of Postsecondary Correctional Education

For additional information, access the National Institute of Corrections' Recidivism page and the Correctional Education Association website.

The average cost of arson damage can be found in Crime in the United States, an annual report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). See the "Offenses Known to Law Enforcement: Arson" section of the report to see the average amount of damage (in dollar amounts).

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration operates a telephone hotline and website to help you locate drug treatment programs throughout the United States. The hotline number is 800-662-HELP (4357). To access information via the Internet, visit FindTreatment.gov.

The Data & Statistics section of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives' U.S. Bomb Data Center website provides access to annual reports capturing arson and explosives related incidents throughout the U.S.

Information and data on the amount of money spent on the purchase of illegal drugs can be found in What America's Users Spend on Illegal Drugs, 2006–2016, a report from the RAND Corporation completed with funding support from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Drug arrest statistics are available through the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reporting Program.

A study of deaths from the use of oleoresin capsicum ("pepper spray") was conducted with grant money supplied by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). The publication, Deaths in Police Confrontations When Oleoresin Capsicum is Used, discusses fatal incidents in which law enforcement officers use oleoresin capsicum to control a subject. Additionally, The Effectiveness and Safety of Pepper Spray, another resource from NIJ, presents the findings from two NIJ-funded studies testing the safety and effectiveness of pepper spray.

Data on rapes that occur in the U.S. are available in the Criminal Victimization and Criminal Victimization in the United States series of reports from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). The number of rapes reported to the police is available in the annual Crime in the United States report, which is published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).