Subject Guides: JLC 309: Justice and Public Policy (Kaplan): Know the Numbers!

Government Web Resources

Bureau of Justice Statistics
In keeping with its mission, the Bureau of Justice Statistics collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime and criminal justice. Their website offers data collections and reports by topic.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - Statistical Briefing Book
The Statistical Briefing Book is an online resource describing topics related to delinquency and the juvenile justice system.
Statistical Analysis Centers (SACs)
SACs exists in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands. They collect and analyze criminal justice data at the State level. The Justice Research and Statistical Associationis a nonprofit organization made up of all SACs.
Data.gov
Data.gov is a search engine designed to provide public access to statistics and datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government.

Gallup Brain
Searchable resource of 70+ years of public opinion data and analysis compiled by Gallup, Inc. Includes answers to more than 125,000 question, and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by the Gallup Poll since 1935.
**Off-campus access to full content currently available only via AU's VPN**
iPOLL and RoperExpress (Roper Center)
U.S. and international public opinion polls (iPOLL) and datasets (RoperExpress) from 1935 to present. Includes the major academic, commercial and media survey organizations.
**The link to Roper iPoll changed in March, 2020.
Users are no longer required to have an individual, sponsored account in order to download datasets when accessing iPoll from this link, and preexisting account credentials are no longer valid.
Users may register for a new optional, individual, sponsored account at the Roper iPoll registration page.**

Pew Research Center - Criminal Justice
Results from Pew Research Center's studies on Criminal Justice Topics

SAGE Stats
SAGE State Stats and SAGE Local Stats feature statistical data series created from government and non-government datasets, covering topics of research interest for U.S. states, counties, cities, and metropolitan areas. Contains data series (single data measures over time) about U.S. geographies that span as far back as 1969. Detailed source information, with links where applicable, are provided for every data series.
PolicyMap
Integrates data including demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, labor data and more with web-based GIS. This allows users to view data on maps, table, and charts.
ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Science Research
This resource includes both publicly available and non-publicly available datasets on public policy and social science research. NOTE: Access to datasets requires a free user-specific login. To log in using your existing account or to create a new account, click on "MyData Login/Create Account" from the ICPSR page.