As has been widely reported in the press, the Intelligence Division of the NYPD had undertaken surveillance of Muslim communities. Here is the report for Newark, called Newark, New Jersey Demographics Report. Since the Associated Press broke this report (and has been honored because of it), here is the AP feature including timeline, incidents, and reactions. Governor Christie’s reactions are summarized here, and Newark’s Mayor Booker has his reactions reported here.
Archive for Criminal Justice
Crime in U.S. Schools, Including Bullying
This biennial report, Student Victimization in Schools, released on November 2, is based on the 2009 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey. It examines “serious violent,” “violent,” or “theft” crimes within the school setting, both victims and nonvictims, as well as student reports of bullying, gangs, weapons, and drug use. Highlights of the report are on pages iii-iv; bullying statistics are found on pages 10-11.
Crime in the United States 2010
This annual comprehensive FBI report shows that reported crime is down once again. An overview of this is available as are previous volumes in this series back to 1995 . With this report, you can sort at national, regional, state, county, or city levels. Another annual report available from the FBI is Hate Crime Statistics.
City Crime Rankings
Much press has been devoted to the newest release from CQ Press - City Crime Rankings 2010-2011. For those interested, the city rankings are available here. Read the U.S. Conference of Mayor’s reaction as well as this cautionary note from the FBI whose Crime in the United States is the basis for CQ’s report. News coverage is found courtesy of: Reuters, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Star-Ledger, and the Albany Times Union.
New Jersey Crime Rate Lowest in a Decade
A perusal of the annual Uniform Crime Report from the NJ State Police indicate that crime in almost every category has declined. Statistics for individual municipalities will be found here along with a comparison to the 2008 statistics.(Just scroll down a bit to find this interactive feature.) For instance, here is a look at Jersey City. Press coverage is available from: The Star-Ledger, The Wall Street Journal, new jerseynewsroom, and The Bergen Record.
International Criminal Justice Statistics
This entry is prompted by the latest release of the FBI’s Crime in the United States, an annual report detailing trends in crimes throughout the country. Statistics can be broken down by state , by county and by municipality. Overall, crime is trending downwards. Previous reports back to 1995 are also online, along with other valuable FBI titles. New Jersey has its own Uniform Crime Report; previous volumes in the series can also be accessed. International criminal justice statistics are more difficult to come by. We recommend trying these documents: European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics – 2010 (this is the fourth edition of this irregularly published title; previous editions are here); International Statistics and Crime and Criminal Justice, published in 2010; and State of Crime and Criminal Justice Worldwide(this was a paper presented at the 12th United Nations Conference on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Salvador, Brazil, 2010). Other papers include a discussion guide, papers on Africa, western Asia, Asia/Pacific, and on a variety of other topics.) Other sites of major importance are: United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems which published its 11th edition for 2007/08 and includes statistics on homicides, burglary, theft, etc. from around the world; victimization surveys for African countries available from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime; from King’s College, we have the World Prison Brief in which you will find that, for example, foreigners make up 72% of Saudi Arabia’s prison population while the United States’ federal prisons operate at 162% of capacity; the Overseas Security Advisory Council issues Crime & Safety Reports for all countries detailing crime threats, road safety, terrorist actvities, and political unrest; this site – Crime and Society: A Comparative Criminology Tour of the World presents a rather comprehensive overview of each country listing among other topics criminal codes, the court system, and incidences of crime, although this last category is somewhat dated; still quoted is this World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems but it must be used with caution as much as the information is current only through the early 1990s; and the National Criminal Justice Reference Service has hundreds of full text documents on international crime. Last, but not least, there is the European Institute for Crime Prevention (HEUNI) which has published such valuable titles as: Victimisation Surveys in Comparative Perspective, Crime and Criminal Justice Systems in Europe and North America 1995-2004, What Does the World Spend on Criminal Justice?, and National Criminal Justice Profiles of European countries. Update (5-23-11): Crime statistics for Australia are available courtesy of the Australian Institute of Criminology. Update(7-20-11): Crime statistics are interspersed in this conference proceedings volume on Policing in Eastern and Central Europe. Update (11-11-11): Canadian statistics are available from Juristat (Statistics Canada). Update(11-30-11): Drug statistics are available from the “Statistics and Data” section of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Update (1-19-12): Crime in England and Wales (Home Office). Update (3-15-12): Comparing International Criminal Justice Systems (UK. National Audit Office, February 2012. A MUST READ!) Update (3-15-12): 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (US Department of State. Contains individual country reports.)
