Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1996

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This report presents a broad spectrum of criminal justice data from more than 100 sources in 6 sections:

characteristics of the criminal justice systems

public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice topics

the nature and distribution of known offenses

characteristics and distribution of persons arrested

judicial processing of defendants

persons under correctional supervision.

Includes more than 600 tables, figures, subject index, annotated bibliography, technical appendixes with definitions and methodology, and list of source publishers and their addresses. Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center. 11/97 NCJ 165361

This report is one in a series. More recent editions may be available. To view a list of all in the series go to the publications page.

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