Crime Statistics and Data

Australian Institute of Criminology

This site contains criminal justice statistics for Australia (as well as online studies of criminal behavior).

Bureau of Justice Statistics

The Bureau of Justice Statistics home page contains a variety of current criminal justics statistics as well as links to other useful sites.

County and City Data Book

This publication contains demographic, educational, crime, wealth, labor force, and other statistics for U.S. cities and counties.

County and City Data Books (University of Virginia)

This site, provided by the University of Virginia, makes it possible to download data from the 1988, 1994, and 2000 County and City Data Books.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

This site contains the most current release of the Uniform Crime Reports and other sources of crime statistics for the United States.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Statistics

This site, provided by the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, contains a large variety of data on crime and enforcement, attitudes towards crime, and related topics.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

This agency serves as a clearinghouse for information provided by U.S. and international criminal justice agencies. While there is little raw data at this site, there are links to most domestic and international agencies.

United Nations World Crime Statistics

This site contains crime statistics from a relatively large number of UN member countries.