Criminology Data and Statistics: Crime Rates

Data on offenses and arrests for Part I crimes (e.g., murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson), and for arrests only for Part II crimes (those considered less serious), reported for police departments. Data are collected by the FBI from local law enforcement agencies, 1930-present.
• Crime in the United States (annual): Online, 1930-present.
• Crime in the United States (annual): Print, 1930-present.
• UCR data: Excel tables, 1960-present (via UCR Data Tool).
• UCR data: Datasets for statistical packages, 1960-present (via NACJD).
HINT! In NACJD, watch for multi-year compilations that offer online analysis tools.
• UCR data: Tables, datasets, mapping, 2010-present (via Social Explorer)

Part of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports data collection program, receiving detailed crime reports from local law enforcement agencies.
• Datasets for statistical packages, 1991-present (via NACJD).

NCVS surveys 135,000 households nationwide each year, 1973-present, asking about the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of criminal victimization. Detailed information is collected from respondents about individual victimication incidents, including offender characteristics and respondent experiences with police and the criminal justice system. In early years of the program, known as National Crime Survey.
• Criminal Victimization (annual): Online, 1984-present (via BJS).
• Criminal Victimization (annual): Print, 1976-1995.
• NCVS data: Excel tables, 1993-present (via NCVS Victimization Analysis Tool - NVAT).
• NCVS data: Datasets for statistical packages, 1992-present, via NACJD.
HINT! In NACJD, watch for multi-year compilations and for datasets that offer online analysis tools.

Derived from the FBI's UCR, this CQ Press publication ranks cities and metropolitan areas by total crime and Crime Index (Part I) offenses: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson. 1996-present.

Crimes by year, 2001-present, on college and university campuses. Covers criminal offenses, hate crimes, violence against women, arrests, disciplinary actions, unfounded crimes, and fire statistics. Compiled from Clery Act data reported by individual postsecondary schools.

Crime data for Pennsylvania only, 2000-present.

Datasets and visualization tools for Philadelphia Police data on crime incidents, shooting victims, vehicle & pedestrian investigations, and complaints against police.

Datasets, tables, and reports for periodic surveys, 1989-2000, of victim rates, fear of crime, and subjective wellbeing within European countries.

Tables on intentional homicide, prison population, and drugs crime. The UNODC Statistics website has more data but is being migrated.

Quinquennial surveys, 1970-1994. Also known as World Crime Surveys.

Bioassay data collected from arrestees. Statistics available in ADAM annual reports; restricted-access data available from NAHDAP (see below).

Provides datasets from Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, US Department of Health & Human Services. Includes several important data series: Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), National Survey on Drug use and Health (NSDUH), and Treatment Episode Data Set.
• Reports and Excel tables (via SAMHSA).
NOTE! NAHDAP replaces SAMHDA, a superseded ICPSR topical data archive.

See also the previous administration's website, especially:
• Estimation of drug expenditures, consumption and supply, covering 2000-2010.

Annual reports from the Uniform Crime Reports Program, 1995-present.

Incidents of hate crimes against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and HIV-affected (LGBTQH) communities reported to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, in PDF format. 1998-present.

Annual reports on federal firearms (commercial) licensees, firearms trace data by state and by country, firearms manufacture, export, and commerce reports.

The number of firearm transaction applications checked by state points of contact and local agencies, and the number of applications denied and the reasons for denial. 1999-present.

RAND Corporation.
Dataset with analysis of U.S. state-level estimates of firearm injuries, 2000-2016. Published as part of RAND's Gun Policy in America research program.

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Annual national surveys on gun ownership and attitudes toward guns, conducted by National Opinion Research Center for Jouns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy & Research and the Joyce Foundation. Survey datasets with online analysis tool from Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.

Statistics on calls to human trafficking hotline by state, 2009-present.

BJS reports from the Human Trafficking Reporting System.

From the U.S. State Department, classification of countries by efforts to comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking, 2001-present.

Bureau of Justice Statistics reports.

Prevalence and characteristics of sexual violence, stalking, and intimate partner violence. 2010 report available as PDF, or state-level tables.

From Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, 1995-present.

Information on and data access to key data sets related to juvenile offending, victimization, and contact with the juvenile justice system.

Factsheets, 1994-present.
Also see:
• Juvenile Court Statistics. (1927)-present (via Juvenile Court Data Archive).

Survey of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students on drug, alcohol, and tobacco use and related attitudes. 1975-present.

From the Centers for Disease Control.

Guide to relevant datasets in NACJD.

No longer maintained. Guide to relevant data sources.

Data compiled from cases of occupational fraud, in PDF format, 1996-present.

Surveys on the prevalence of consumer fraud. Also see periodic FTC surveys on Consumer Fraud in the United States.

Defines technical terms relevant to cyber crimes. Reproduced from National White Collar Crime Center (U.S.)