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1. Crime Stats
crime stats. Subject crime stats. Answered By d_ottr. Asked By Anonymous. Anonymous asked this question on 4/6/2000 to the new milleneum, wanted to free all those incarcerated in US prisons
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    Anonymous asked this question on 4/6/2000:
    I am trying to find out the percentage of jailed americans currently serving time for drug related offenses (using, selling, trafficing). could you point in the direction of web sites that might compile related data? thanks d_ottr gave this response on 4/6/2000: Other than that, I can't right now think of one location to find out all the info you need. Try those sites and see what you come up with. d_ottr gave this follow-up answer on 4/6/2000: I was just surfing around Amnesty 200, and got linked to the site: http://www.csdp.org Thye have a page on Prison stas (When you get to the site, scroll down the right column to prison, and click on that) Once again, they may be the adversary of drug ENFORCEMENT, but they are usually pretty close on the stats. They are not broken down into trafficing, or other sub-categoreis, but you can get a failry good idea what you need.

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2. Attorney General Lockyer Releases State Crime Stats For 2000 - News & Alerts - C
Attorney General Lockyer Releases State crime stats for 2000. Number of crimes in large jurisdictions generation that needs more schools today doesn't need more prisons tomorrow."
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OFFICE OF THE AG PUBLICATIONS CONTACT US SEARCH ... LINKS TO STATE SITES Attorney General Lockyer Releases State Crime Stats for 2000
Number of crimes in large jurisdictions during the year increased 3.5 percent compared to 1999 March 20, 2001
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Fresno) – During a meeting with Central Valley law enforcement officials, Attorney General Bill Lockyer today announced that preliminary figures show that during 2000, the number of crimes in the most populous cities and counties in California increased 3.5 percent when compared to 1999.
The preliminary report, "Crime 2000 In Selected California Jurisdictions, January through December" compares crime counts for six major offense categories during 1999 and 2000 for 77 jurisdictions with populations of 100,000 or more. These jurisdictions represent about 65 percent of the state's population. Within these jurisdictions, crimes tracked by the California Crime Index increased 3.5 percent:
  • Homicides increased 3.9 percent;
  • Forcible Rapes increased 6.6 percent;
  • Robberies increased 0.9 percent;

3. KYVL: Ky Stats: Crime
Kentucky stats. Your browser does not support script The Contours of crime. This report discusses trends in crime in Kentucky in state and federal prisons, inmates in local jails
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Contributor Barbara Whitener , University of Louisville
The Contours of Crime
This report discusses trends in crime in Kentucky. (PDF format)
Crime in Kentucky
These annual reports contain Kentucky crime statistics for 1995-2000 and are broken down by type of crime, location, age, sex, and race. Hate crimes, domestic violence and the Brady Handgun Act are highlighted. (PDF format)
Debt to Society
This special report, from MotherJones.com, provides statistics for inmates in state and federal prisons, inmates in local jails, where states rank in incarceration rates, prison spending, education, drug offenders, racial disparity between general and prison populations. Select a specific state or choose National Totals.
Facts and Figures
This site provides statistics on the prison population in Kentucky.
Impact of Treatment : The Jefferson County (Kentucky) Drug Court System
Page 2 of this report provides results of an evaluation of the Jefferson County, Kentucky Drug Court System.
Impaired Driving in Kentucky
Statistics on alcohol related driving in Kentucky.

4. CRIME STATS DON'T TELL WHOLE STORY, JUSTICE OFFICIAL SAYS (December 11, 1998)
Web Links Jobs. crime stats DON'T TELL WHOLE STORY, JUSTICE OFFICIAL SAYS Opportunities for crime prevention also exist inside the nation's prisons, he said
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Home About Gannett News from Gannett Investor Relations ... Jobs CRIME STATS DON'T TELL WHOLE STORY, JUSTICE OFFICIAL SAYS By Amy Zurzola, Metro Reporter, Asbury Park Press Six years of falling crime statistics are good news, but the numbers are not the whole story, Deputy U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told the Gannett National Conference for Reporters and Editors. Much news coverage of crime nationwide focuses on drops in the murder rate and juvenile crime, but statistics cannot measure the effects of crime, its impact on victims' families and on those arrested, Holder said in a luncheon keynote speech. Clinton administration anti-crime initiatives and increased community involvement in crime prevention have been catalysts for change, but new and troubling crime trends are emerging, Holder said. Crime in rural areas increased by 1 percent this year, due in part to a thriving methamphetamine market that spurred drug-related violence. Rape numbers have not decreased, even though other violent crimes have. "We must not be complacent as a result of our recent downturns,'' he said.

5. Drugstory | Drug Stats | Crime Stats
on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the data on incarceration rates for the States and rankings and other substance abuse programs in prisons.
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Establishes policies, priorities and objectives for the nation's drug control program. State and City Drug Profiles
Includes information on drug trafficking and seizures, and drug-related crime, enforcement, courts and corrections for each state and various cities. Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program (ADAM)
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A National Institute of Justice program that tracks trends in the prevalence and types of drug use among booked arrestees in urban areas. 1999 Annual Report on Drug Use Among Adult and Juvenile Arrestees (June 2000)
Reports trends in drug use testing among male and female adult and juvenile arrestees. Tracks cocaine, opiates, marijuana, and methamphetamine use. (Adobe Acrobat File) U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics

6. Salt Of The Earth: Our Booming Prisons
Additional resources Criminal Justice stats POV Three strikes Campaign for an Effective crime Policy America Afircan Americans in state prisons increaed by
http://salt.claretianpubs.org/stats/prisons/prisons.html
Welcome to Claretian Publications! Stats: prisons are U.S.
September 1999 Our booming prison population

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics , if current trends continue, an analysis of 1998 prison population figures indicates that the nation's prison and jail population will reach a total of 2 million inmates in the first year of the new millennium. Last year over 550,000 inmates entered the federal and state prison systems.
More stats Capital punishment Environment Homelessness Welfare reform ... Misc. stats The Sentencing Project , meanwhile, notes the "flip side" of the nation's 20-year prison population—a record number of inmates are returning to their families, communities, and society at large, often with little education and job experience.
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"P.O.V.: Three strikes and you're out"

Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy

America Behind Bars
U.S. Catholic , June 1998
The Urban Institute
Sentencing Project Salt news In session ... Back to main

7. FIREARM  OVERLOAD - Crime Stats
GranTech Ballistic Labs Research. crime stats. Photos FEDERAL BUREAU OF prisons QUICK FACTS. FBI. crime stats by Community Baltimore County
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Firearm Safety Firearm Laws Gun Show List Crime Prevention ... For Kids CRIME STATS US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics Homicide trends in the U.S.: Contents Bureau of Justice Statistics Publications Alphabetical Listing BOJS State Prison Felony Sentences ... Crime Stats by Community Baltimore County SAFETY FIRST - when you are dead you don't get a second chance home
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8. Encyclopedia: United States Prison Population
in local jails, state and federal prisons and juvenile 0509, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC) These stats are questionable it s very difficult to compare crime rates between
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    9. Encyclopedia: Prison
    1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica entry for prison ; (PDF) Full list of prisons in Germany deGef ngnis simplePrison svF ngelse Related stats. crime Jails; crime
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    10. Crime Stats Tell Only Part Of The Story On Safety
    Place an ad. crime stats tell only part of the story on safety had the clout at the state level to impose tougher criminal penalties and build more prisons.
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    August 3, 2001 Statistically, America is a safer place. Violent crime fell by a record 15 percent last year, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. Democrats will say it is because they found the money at the federal level to put more police on the streets during the '90s. Republicans will say it is because they had the clout at the state level to impose tougher criminal penalties and build more prisons. Police will say it's still pretty tough out there, and cite FBI stats showing the level of violent crime to be about where it was a year ago. The Washington-based Statistical Assessment Service says crime numbers can produce a "virtuous circle" if the numbers are down, people are more inclined to report crimes such as assault because they feel as if something's going to be done. That may cause the next set of numbers to go up. But as politicians and law enforcement wrangle over which numbers show what and why, the real issue is how people behave. Do we feel safer and act accordingly? Simple observation indicates not. There are more doors locked, more security systems in place, more cell phones, more guns all indicators of a society that feels less safe, even if the prisons are more full.

    11. Three Strikes Law Not A Solution To Crime
    with phony crime stats as the only justification for it. Three Strikes is a bad law put into place by bad politicians needing financing for 36 prisons that
    http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/parliament/2398/advice4.htm
    The public has been suckered with soundbites and statistics into believing that the Three Strikes law is a solution to crime, nothing is further from the truth
    The Three Strikes Law is not a solution to crime.... by B. Cayenne Bird
    There's a great deal of mass brainwash which happens when the news media prints the government press releases about crime statistics without ever mentioning the fact that they are useless. The public has been suckered with soundbites and statistics into thinking that crime is down because of Three Strikes, Mandatory Minimums, the Death Penalty and Prisons. Nothing is further from the truth.
    The Orange County Register, New York Times and Pennsylvania Newspapers have clearly exposed at least 15 variables in the way the statistics are prepared which make them useless as a true measure of crime. (Click on the link below for many of these variables) Manipulated statistics are a gimmick to justify billions of dollars in building up a police state and nothing more!
    For example, not all police agencies report every year. Oakland hasn't reported for four years and the number of agencies who do report vary every single year. On this one variable alone, no previous year's crime statistics can be compared to another one accurately. Participation in reporting by the various agencies is strictly voluntary. They cannot be construed as factual!

    12. ABCNEWS.com : Will: More Bad 'Times' On Prison Stats
    increasing imprisonments. A 1997 times story was headlined crime Keeps on Falling, but prisons Keep on Filling. . The Times thought
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    George Will gives a weekly commentary on This Week With George Stephanopoulos (ABCNEWS.com) Missing the Story Will: Liberal Viewpoint Colors New York Times ' Reporting on Prisons
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    Aug. 3 The New York Times did it again. Year after year, the same Times reporter, Fox Butterfield, writes a story with some variant of the same theme. In last week's story, the secondary headline was "More Inmates, Despite Slight Drop in Crime." Perhaps there is a drop in crime because more criminals are in prison. Same Old Story Three years ago, another Times story again used the word "despite:" "Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction." At The Times , it must be unthinkable that crime is reduced by increasing imprisonments. A 1997 times story was headlined: "Crime Keeps on Falling, but Prisons Keep on Filling."

    13. SCC-LRC/Library: Research Guide For Criminal Justice
    Victimization in the US (Bureau of Justice Statistics) crime in the United States (FBI) crime stats (Poynter Online) Federal Bureau of prisons Florida crime
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    Criminal Justice Contact Us Hours LRC Home Online Catalog ... Site Map This guide provides links to help you create a research strategy for Criminal Justice Knowing which options are available allows you to quickly select those most appropriate for your topic. To start your research, SCC LRC/Library Information Specialists suggest: LINCC Online Catalog Subject Browse Lists which are linked to SCC LRC/Library Criminal Justice holdings including the Call Number and Availability for each. Criminal Justice Internet Links Index Associations (MSU)
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    (NCWC) Law and Government Mega National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Prisons ... Technical Writing To complete your research, you can use the

    14. TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime
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    16. Criminal Justice Resources Resources: Crime Statistics
    crime and prisons Data for Michigan from Stateline.Org provides the capability of comparing Michigan crime and prison data with that of other states.
    http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/stats.htm
    CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESOURCES
    Crime Statistics
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    Crime Statistics Reports Available in the Main Library

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    Crime is the most important subject on the public agenda today according to most national polls. Citizens of all races are fearful of violence and concerned about their own safety. People want their legislators and law enforcement leaders at all levels of government to develop effective strategies to reduce crime and ensure safety. This web page provides a compilation of resources on this topic, including both resources that are available in the Michigan State University Main Library as well as those that are available over the world wide web. In the most comprehensive study of its type, an article in the October issue of the Journal of Law and Economics (University of Chicago Press) says that crime costs $4,100 per person, or $1.7 trillion in 1997 dollars. The report, researched and written by David Anderson, an economist at Davidson College in North Carolina, covered such details as police and private security expenses, corrections costs, expense of crime-related injuries, amount of theft. Anderson says that criminals annually steal $603 billion in assets while also creating an additional $1.1 trillion worth of lost productivity.
    Overview In order to compare criminal justice statistics, it is important to realize the differences between the various data gathering mechanisms. The following web sites discuss the two major crime measures in the United States, as well as measures taken to modify them over the years.

    17. Online NewsHour: Crime Report: May 8, 2000
    to, prevention, say putting cops on the street or punishment, building more prisons. there something we have learned from bringing down the crime stats that we
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    CRIME DECLINE
    May 8, 2000
    The FBI reports crime in the United States has decreased for the eighth year in a row. Gwen Ifill discusses the trend with three guests. April 19, 2000: The Supreme Court and Miranda Rights Feb. 29, 2000: Police power and the Fourth amendments protection . Dec. 16, 1999:
    A new study examines violence in America. Youth Crime Online Forum: Should juvenile offenders receive adult sentences? Feb. 29, 2000:
    Los Angeles' zero tolerance youth crime initiative Jan. 14, 2000:
    The youngest person ever convicted of murder receives his sentence. April 21, 1999: Experts discuss clues to teen violence. Aug. 11, 1998: How should the legal system handle kids who kill? Browse Online NewsHour coverage of the law Congress and youth F.B.I. F.B.I. : Uniform Crime Report RAND JACK RILEY: Well, I think you have to look for something that would help explain why crime fell rather substantially across most of the country and at approximately the same time. And there are very few things that can meet those two criteria in terms of explaining what happened to crime. I would point first to demographics. There's been a rather substantial change in the number of people in the age 15 to 24 bracket that commit most of the crimes here in the country or that are most likely to commit crime, and the second factor is probably economic growth in combination with reduced opportunities in drug marketing and drug trafficking because of declines in drug use.

    18. Prisons.net
    prisons do less now to prepare inmates for life outside we may be naturally aging them out of a life of crime. The stats about violent excons are also ambiguous
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    Ex-Con Nation We locked 'em up. They're getting out. What do we do now? by David Plotz Every year, the United States sets two prison records-one we talk about, and one we don't. Our mania for incarceration is common knowledge: The number of state and federal prisoners has quadrupled to 1.3 million in the past 25 years. But Americans have paid no attention at all to the backdoor of the prison. Inmates are arriving at an unprecedented rate, but they are also leaving at one. This year, American prisons will release more than 600,000 inmates, up from 170,000 in 1980. (To put it another way, a city with a population larger than Washington, D.C., leaves prison every year. And this does not even count the hundreds of thousands of lesser criminals who finish short jail sentences.) We lock them up, but we don't throw away the key. For all the hoopla that surrounds the death penalty and life sentences, only a teeny fraction of inmates-fewer than 4,000 per year-actually die in prison. Those who study "prisoner re-entry" have a new catch phrase to describe prisoners returning home: "They all come back."

    19. NewStandard: 5/19/97
    good news in the latest federal, state and local crime stats. job of dealing with gangs and violent crime by young do not know what is going on inside prisons.
    http://www.s-t.com/daily/05-97/05-19-97/a01lo005.htm
      Get away from your computer Go see a Play
      Looking at crime stats, skeptics abound
      By Robert Lovinger, Standard-Times staff writer
      By Glen Johnson, Associated Press writer

      Crime is down. That's what the numbers say.
      But people are having a variety of reactions to what looks like good news in the latest federal, state and local crime stats.
      Some aren't surprised by the numbers. Others believe them but say they don't reflect the reality of their particular neighborhood. Still others simply insist the figures can't be accurate.
      Regardless of their willingness to accept the statistics, many agree the news media have an obsession with crime coverage, and that this has warped the public's perception of how dangerous the world really is.
      Dennis Correa of New Bedford isn't surprised to hear the crime rate is falling. "I believe crime is decreasing. I think people are behaving themselves more because of tougher laws."
      He also credited police and courts with doing a better job, including the move toward treating young offenders as adults. And he thinks the aging of the population helped lower crime rates.
      So why do so many people have a hard time accepting that crime is down? "People have a tendency to think very negatively," Mr. Correa said. "Also, the media scandalizes things, putting crime on the front page and good news on page four. The media have a way of glorifying violence. They exploit it."

    20. Prison Stats 1990-2000
    by rising crime; nor did it cause crime to decrease 3 or more new 500 bed prisons every week Some states ban parolees from certain occupations, including nursing
    http://www.wrongfuldeathinstitute.com/links/prison/prisonstats.htm
    Prison Statistics, 1990 - 2000 Certain Information from the Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin Overall, the United States incarcerated 2,071,686 persons at year end 2000." That's 478 inmates per 100,000 US residents. California (163,001 inmates), Texas (157,997), and the Federal system 145,416) together held 1 in every 3 prisoners in the Nation. By the end of 2000, State Prisons were operating between full capacity and 15% above capacity. Between 1990 and 2000 the number of State correctional facilities increased by 351. States also added over 528,000 beds, an 81% increase. Since 1990 the number of male inmates has increased by 77%, and the number of female inmates has increased by 108%. In the year 2000 the Federal inmate population rose by 9.4%. Since 1990, the Federal System has increased by 148%. Among the more than 1.3 million sentenced inmates (not including those in jail custody) at yearend, an estimated 428,300 were black males between the ages of 20 and 39. This means that 9.7% of all black males between the ages of 25 and 29 were in prisons. At yearend 2000, 1 in every 143 US residents were incarcerated in State or Federal prisons or a local jail.

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