NCJ Number
154591
Editor(s)
K. Maguire,
A. L. Pastore
Date Published
October 1995
Length
723 pages
Annotation
This resource book brings together in a single volume nationwide data of interest to the criminal justice community.
Abstract
A section on the characteristics of the criminal justice systems presents data on the number and types of criminal justice agencies and employees, criminal justice expenditures, and workload of agency personnel. It also includes tables that summarize, State by State, the statutory, regulatory, or administrative characteristics and practices of criminal justice agencies. A section on public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice-related topics presents the results of nationwide public opinion polls on such matters as fear of victimization, the death penalty, gun control, drug use, and ratings of law enforcement and judicial system performance. The section on the nature and distribution of known offenses presents data from several indicators of the extent of illegal activities; they include surveys of individuals and households that may have been victims of crime, proportions of persons who report that they have used various drugs or participated in other illegal activities, and law enforcement agency counts of offenses reported to them. Data on the characteristics and distribution of persons arrested includes tabulations of arrestees by age, sex, race, and area; proportions of known crimes cleared by arrests; and counts of illegal goods and assets seized. Another section presents data on the number of juveniles and adults processed through the courts and on the characteristics, dispositions, and sentences of defendants. The final section presents data related to persons on probation and parole, juveniles in custody, persons in local jails, population and movement of inmates in State and Federal prisons, and characteristics of State and Federal prison inmates. Extensive tables and figures