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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 13, 2011 at 11:26 AM

The Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) 2007 Census of Public Defender Offices (CPDO) collected data from public defender offices located across 49 states and the District of Columbia. Public...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: February 16, 1992 at 12:00 AM

The circumstances surrounding "justifiable homicides" by police are the focus of this data collection, which examines occurrences in 57 United States cities during the period 1970-1979....

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM

In 1980, the National Institute of Justice awarded a grant to the Cornell University College of Human Ecology for the establishment of the Center for the Study of Race, Crime, and Social Policy...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 18, 2006 at 12:00 AM

In 1983, the National Institute of Justice sponsored a program evaluation survey by Abt Associates that was designed to identify the highest priority needs for management and operational ...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This study gathered data on policies and procedures for identifying domestic violence issues among divorcing couples and examined divorce mediation practices and policies in cases with ...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

The National Assessment Program (NAP) Survey was conducted to determine the needs and problems of state and local criminal justice agencies. At the local level in each sampled county, survey ...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: July 13, 1996 at 12:00 AM

This national survey was designed to collect information on police departmental policies and practices pertaining to the use of physical force--both deadly and less than lethal--by law...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: October 29, 2013 at 05:09 PM

The study examined how law enforcement agencies (LEAs) manage the use of force by officers. It was conducted to produce practical information that can help LEAs establish guidelines that assist in...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: October 18, 2018 at 12:21 PM

The Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Labs (CPFFCL) was first conducted in 2003 to capture data on the 2002 workload and operations of the 351 publicly funded crime labs operating...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: February 16, 1992 at 12:00 AM

This dataset lists law enforcement agencies and contains variables regarding employment categories such as total full-time, part-time, sworn-in, and other employees. It also contains FIPS...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This study contains data from a survey of publicly operated forensic crime labs that perform deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing. The survey was a follow-up to the initial survey of DNA...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 22, 2019 at 12:22 PM

This data collection provides detailed comparative information about the structure, policies, and procedures of state-wide trial and appellate court systems for the 50 states and the District of...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 12, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This data collection was undertaken to gather information on the extent of police officers' knowledge of search and seizure law, an issue with important consequences for law enforcement. A ...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 14, 2012 at 09:19 AM

The 2007 Census of State Court Prosecutors marked the second BJS survey of all prosecutors' offices in the United States. The first census, conducted in 2001, included the 2,341 offices in...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 04, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This study examined police officers' perceptions of and tolerance for corruption. In contrast to the popular viewpoint that police corruption is a result of moral defects in the individual ...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 22, 2019 at 11:53 AM

This data collection provides detailed comparative information about the structure, policies, and procedures of state-wide trial and appellate court systems for the 50 states and the District of...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 26, 2018 at 12:59 PM

This data collection contains data from censuses of publicly funded crime laboratories in 2009. The data were collected to examine change and stability in the operations of crime laboratories...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: September 02, 2005 at 12:00 AM

This collection contains survey data collected at the end of October 2004 from the 49 state law enforcement agencies in the United States that had traffic patrol responsibility. Information...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 30, 2006 at 12:00 AM

This study was undertaken to examine the compatibility of law enforcement agency accreditation and community policing. It sought to answer the following questions: (1) Are accreditation and...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: August 08, 2005 at 12:00 AM

Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS) studies are designed to collect information by tracking adult offenders from the point of entry into the criminal justice system (typically by...

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