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The number of missing or unidentified persons is available in Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics, available on the National Crime Information Center section of the Federal Bureau of Investigation site.

See the following websites for additional information about efforts to locate missing and identify located individuals:

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
National Missing and Unidentified Persons System
Missing and Exploited Children

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) website provides access to information about programs and efforts aimed at improving the justice system's response to people with mental illness. Following are examples of BJA-supported efforts:

Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program
Police-Mental Health Collaboration Toolkit
Council of State Governments Justice Center Mental Health Program

Information about and access to findings from Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) recidivism studies is available on the Recidivism and Reentry section of the BJS website. Also see BJS's Prisoner Recidivism Data Analysis Tool, which you can use to calculate recidivism rates for persons released from state prisons in 2005.

The Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is Liz Ryan.

The Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance is Karhlton F. Moore.

The Director of the National Institute of Justice is Nancy La Vigne, Ph.D.

Rape clearance statistics are available in the Federal Bureau of Investigation report, Crime in the United States.

Data on family violence are available in the following Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reports:

Intimate Partner Violence publication series
select tables in the Criminal Victimization publication series
Family Violence Statistics: Including Statistics on Strangers and Acquaintances

Visit the Family Violence Special Feature for additional information and resources.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) collects data on drug offense arrests from State and local law enforcement agencies. These numbers can be found in the FBI report, Crime in the United States.

Information about court cases involving juvenile drug offenders can be found in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention-sponsored report, Juvenile Court Statistics 2018. Also see the Detailed Offenses section of OJJDP's web-based data analysis tools by the National Center for Juvenile Justice.