Crime and Social Control: Crime Data and Statistics

The UCR is a series of reports published by the FBI and is based on data collected from law enforcement agencies all over the United States. Reports provide information on national crime rates, hate crime incidents, and law enforcement officer deaths.

The NCVS is an annual survey conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics to examine the frequency of crime victimization in the US, and the characteristics of crime victims.

This document from the Bureau of Justice Statistics helps explain the differences between the UCR and NCVS, the two major sources of crime data in the United States.

Data on police shootings sourced from the three largest, most comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases on police killings in the country: FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net, with extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 91 percent of all victims in the database.

Provides crime rate and incident data for violent and non-violent crimes in committed within Missouri.

Provides UCR data, crime maps, and dispatch data for the City of Columbia.

Provides annual crime statistics for adult and juvenile crimes.

Research and data sets related to crime rates, recidivism rates, crime mapping, and more.

Information on types of offenses, offender characteristics, and number law enforcement employees by year.

UNODC collects data on a international crimes, including drug use, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and corruption.

Contains links to BJS publications, United Nations Data, data sets from individual countries, and more.

The ICVS, conducted in 2000, looks at rates of victimization, and perceptions of crime and safety in 18 European countries.

2012 and earlier. The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a one-volume, comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Criminal justice statistics can be found under Law Enforcement, Courts, & Prisons.

Contains statistics related to a number of criminal justice topics, including prison expenditures, sentencing issues, and public opinion of criminal justice policy.

The mission of NACJD is "to facilitate research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data."