Criminal Law Research Guide

Washington Post database of fatal shootings by a police officer in the U.S. from Jan. 1, 2015 through Dec. 31, 2024. Information is pulled from news reports, law enforcement websites, social media, and by monitoring independent databases such as Killed by Police and Fatal Encounters.

The Registry collects, analyzes and disseminates information about all known exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in the United States, from 1989 to the present. Use the Resources tab for infographics and reports. Data available on a spreadsheet by request.

BJS is part of the US Dept. of Justice. Its mission is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. Make use of the Publications and Data tabs, and beware of date coverage. Topics include capital punishment, arrest-related deaths, American Indians and crime, hate crimes, and more.

Uniform crime statistics for the nation; collected, published, and archived by the FBI; includes annual Crime in the United States publication, as well as hate crime statistics, statistics on law enforcement officers killed or assaulted in the line of duty, and some use-of-force data.

The Sourcebook is updated annually and contains descriptive statistics on the application of the federal sentencing guidelines and provides selected district, circuit, and national sentencing data. The USSC's Interactive Data Analyzer is an online tool that can be used to explore, filter, customize, and visualize federal sentencing data for research, policymaking, and sentencing purposes.

Includes links to Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics, Federal Court Management Statistics, and Wiretap Statistics.

Joint project of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA). Publishes caseload data from the courts of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Statistics on crime provided by the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security.

Provides access to billions of statistical datasets across 16 topical areas, including Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement. Results can be compared and viewed in customizable tables, maps, rankings, and charts. Sources include public, private/commercial, and nongovernmental organizations.

JELS is a peer-edited, peer-refereed, interdisciplinary journal that publishes high-quality, empirically-oriented articles of interest to scholars in a diverse range of law and law-related fields, including criminal justice, health care, political science, psychology, public policy, and sociology.

Search for your keywords and perhaps add in another search term like statistics or empirical research.

Search for your keywords along with the term "statistics" or similar. Beware of article dates.