Collecting and Processing Multistate Criminal-History Data for Statistical Analysis

• NCJ Number: 250750
• Author(s): Matthew R. Durose; Alexia D. Cooper .; Howard N. Snyder .
• Date Published: April 2019
• Length: 6 pages
• Publication Series: BJS Technical Reports
• Agencies: BJS
• Publication Type: Report (Technical Assistance); Program/Project Description

Annotation

This report describes the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS's) methods for collecting and processing criminal history data; and it discusses the substantive, technical, and methodological challenges of creating a new system for doing this.