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

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

• V1

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

Investigator(s): National Center for Juvenile Justice These data collections describe in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 10, 2012 at 03:50 PM

The Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) Civil Justice Survey of Trials on Appeal (CJSTA) was based on 26,950 general civil (i.e., tort, contract, and real property) cases that were disposed by...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: December 07, 2012 at 10:28 AM

This data collection tabulates the number of persons convicted of felonies in state courts and describes the sentences these individuals received. Data were collected from state courts...

• V2

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 06:06 PM

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads...

• V1

• 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...

• V1

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

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics The National Survey of Prosecutors is a survey of chief prosecutors in state court systems. A chief prosecutor is an official, usually locally...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 10, 2012 at 03:50 PM

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics These surveys provide a broad-based, systematic examination of the nature of general civil litigation (e.g., tort, contract, and real...

• FILE

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: October 30, 2006 at 12:00 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, the District of...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: April 08, 2011 at 10:00 AM

This data collection tabulates the number of persons convicted of felonies in state courts and describes their sentences. Data were collected from state courts and state prosecutors in 344...

• V3

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 06:23 PM

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: November 02, 2011 at 04:12 PM

In 1996, the Bureau of Justice Statistics awarded a grant to the National Center for State Courts to gather detailed information on tort, contract, and real property rights trial cases in...

• V4

• 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...

• V1

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

This survey queried chief prosecuting attorneys of state prosecutorial districts (district attorneys, commonwealth attorneys, etc.) about the prosecution of felony cases within their...

• V1

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

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1987 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and ...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: January 20, 2015 at 10:09 AM

This study addressed questions related to potential geographic and racial disparity in the investigation and prosecution of federal capital cases and examined the process by which criminal cases,...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 28, 2019 at 09:36 AM

This study provides incident-based, case processing, and criminal history data on defendants charged in state courts during May 2002. The State Court Processing Statistics Program tracked the...

• V3

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

These data were collected in seven unnamed cities by the National Center of State Courts. Court cases were identified in one of three ways: (1) observation during real-time interviews, (2)...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: May 22, 2012 at 06:14 PM

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads...

• V1

• Organization: Department of Justice
• Dataset Last Updated: March 08, 2011 at 12:07 PM

This data collection provides detailed information on the sentences and characteristics of convicted felons based on data collected from state courts. The 2006 survey was based on a sample...

• V2