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Collecting and Processing Multistate Criminal-History Data for Statistical Analysis

NCJ Number
250750
Date Published
April 2019
Length
6 pages
Publication Series
Annotation
This report describes the U.S. Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS's) methods for collecting and processing criminal history data; and it discusses the substantive, technical, and methodological challenges of creating a new system for doing this.

Date Published: April 1, 2019