Criminology and Criminal Justice: Helpful Websites for Crime Statistics

The national standard for law enforcement crime data reporting in the United States

Provides access to statistics from over 100 government agencies.

Current and historical publications from the Census Bureau.

Population and crime statistics can be found under “Population and Social Conditions.”

A vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.

The FBI releases UCR data quarterly via the Crime Data Explorer database. The historical publication Crime in the United States is available online from 1995-2019.

Provides a tool to view data from the UCR by state, city, and county.

Scroll down the page to see "Publications and Products" as well as information about methodology and the survey questions (under "Documentation"). Also see the data visualization tool, N-DASH.

Many of the tools provide the ability to view crime and justice data at the local level.

Historical data up to 2013.

"NACJD hosts several large-scale and well known datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN)."

The objective of this Resource Center is to facilitate the use of state Incident-Based Reporting Systems (IBRS) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) by providing up-to-date and relevant information, resources, and tools for those with active IBR programs as well as those conducting research and analysis of IBR/NIBRS data.

“Designed to provide rapid customized reports for public inquiries relating to campus crime and fire data” in the U.S.

See Web Applications, Datasets, and Publications for more information.

An Internet clearinghouse of criminal justice data for the State of Illinois. The Authority collects, maintains and updates a variety of criminal justice data to support its research and evaluation efforts. These data can be used to research broad issues facing the criminal justice system or to simply examine crime problems in a specific Illinois city, county or regional area. Most of the data is broken down to the county level.

Statistics from the State of California, Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General.

The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services maintains, analyzes and publishes criminal and youth justice system data, including incidents of crime and arrests and dispositions. Police departments, sheriffs’ offices, probation departments and the state Office of Court Administration report these data, which provide the public and policy makers with information detailing how the criminal justice system is operating in their communities.

Many of the tools provide the ability to view crime and justice data at the local level.

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City-wide and district level statistics available.

Compiled from the UCR.

The Nashville Police Department, in partnership with CrimeMapping.com, provides an online service enabling the public to analyze interactive maps of recent crime activity at the neighborhood level to further strengthen community oriented policing efforts.