NCJ Number
129863
Date Published
1991
Length
11 pages
Annotation
This report highlights some of the most contemporary data on a variety of criminal justice topics.
Abstract
The document contains narrative and statistical data on: (1) a national initiative to improve criminal history records and stop the sale of firearms to convicted felons; (2) State Statistical Analysis Centers, the data they produce on policy issues, organization locations, and relationships with the Bureau of Justice Statistics; (3) National Crime Survey statistics and how the Survey is improving the way it surveys victims of rape and sexual assault; (4) pretrial release of felony defendants; (5) State court statistics; and (6) corrections statistics, including State and Federal prison populations, jail population (where more than 40 percent of the rise in population resulted from increased numbers of inmates accused or convicted of drug offenses), probation and parole populations, and record growth in the number of female prisoners (nearly half of the women in State prisons for a violent crime in 1986 were under sentence for a homicide). One of the survey¦s major findings was that, at year end 1989, an estimated 4.1 million adults--about 1 in 46-- were under the care or custody of a corrections agency. Figures, tables