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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
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.