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Bureau of Justice Statistics

U.S. criminal justice data agency

Field	Value
agency_name	Bureau of Justice Statistics
type	Bureau/Office
logo	Logo of the Bureau of Justice Statistics.svg
logo_width	91px
logo_caption	Logo of the Bureau of Justice Statistics
seal	Seal of the United States Department of Justice.svg
seal_width	91px
seal_caption	Seal of the United States Department of Justice
formed
jurisdiction	United States government agency
headquarters	810 7th Street NW
Washington, D.C., United States
chief1_name	Alex Piquero
chief1_position	Director
parent_department	Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
website

Washington, D.C., United States

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring crime, criminal victimization, criminal offenders, victims of crime, correlates of crime, and the operation of criminal and civil justice systems at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels. Established on December 27, 1979, BJS collects, analyzes, and publishes data relating to crime in the United States. The agency publishes data regarding statistics gathered from the roughly fifty-thousand agencies, offices, courts, and institutions that together constitute the American justice system.

The mission of BJS 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."

BJS, along with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), and other program offices, comprise the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) branch of the Department of Justice.

They collect data for Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA).

Programs

The BJS conducts the Annual Survey of Jails of a sample of about 950 American jails, and a periodic Census of Jails covering all American jails. Data from these programs was used to show that local jails in the United States had a sharp decline in inmates from February to May 2020 of perhaps 185,000 inmates, more than 20% of the inmate population, in response to the danger of COVID-19 on a crowded incarcerated population. Many inmates were given an "expedited release".

BJS directors

In 2005, the Bush administration replaced BJS Director Lawrence Greenfeld after he refused to remove certain racial statistics from a report, despite having published similar statistics in 2001. The following two references provide analysis and initial reporting, respectively.

Josephf M. Bessette
Eric Lichtblau

More recent directors have included Jeffrey H. Anderson, Jeffrey Sedgwick, Michael Sinclair, John Jay Professor James P. Lynch, and former Deputy Director William Sabol.

Until 2012, the position of the BJS Director required a Senate approval, but since 2012 the post only requires the President's appointment. Alex Piquero is the current BJS Director.

References

(2022-08-15). "The BJS Director".
"About the Bureau of Justice Statistics". U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
[https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/annual-survey-jails-asj Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ)] at bjs.gov
[https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/census-jails-coj Census of Jails (COJ)] at bjs.gov
Todd D. Minton, Zhen Zeng, Ph.D., and Laura M. Maruschak. 2021. [https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/icljpjj20.pdf Impact of COVID-19 on the Local Jail Population], January-June 2020. BJS Special Report NCJ 255888.
[http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/186zjffr.asp "The Injustice Department"] {{Webarchive. link. (2015-09-09 , ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' (Volume 011, Issue 05), October 17, 2005.)
[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/politics/24profiling.html "Profiling Report Leads to a Demotion"]. ''[[The New York Times]]'', August 24, 2005.
Hanna Kozlowska, [https://www.govexec.com/management/2017/12/trumps-man-charge-us-crime-data-known-his-football-rankings/144240/ Trump’s Man In Charge Of U.S. Crime Data Is Known For His Football Rankings], [[Government Executive]], December 1, 2017. Accessed July 31, 2018

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