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Our mission is to empower activists, journalists, and policymakers to shape effective criminal justice policy, so we go beyond our original reports and analyses to curate a database of virtually all the empirical criminal justice research available online.
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- Community Impact (163) Impact of justice system on communities, includes housing, employment, schools
- Conditions of Confinement (272)
- Crime and Crime Rates (330) Information on type of crime/frequency
- Death Penalty (146) Data, policy, and analysis of the death penalty
- Disability (10)
- Drug Policy (167) Analysis of drug policy and its effects on the prison system
- Economics of Incarceration (214) The economic drivers and consequences of mass incarceration
- Education (94) Correctional education and the school-to-prison pipeline
- Families (103) The justice system's impact on families.
- Felon Disenfranchisement (86) Barring people from the polls because of criminal convictions
- General (72) Atlases, indices, and broad-based source material
- Gun Control (45) Statistics on gun violence, suggestions for gun control
- Health impact (96) Public health, access to healthcare, and mortality
- Immigration (44) Detainment practices and statistics
- Incarceration Rates Growth Causes (414)
- International Incarceration Comparisons (52)
- Jails (170) Information and data on jails
- LGBT (8)
- Mental Health (105) Policy and practice of mental health
- Police and Policing (150)
- Poverty and wealth (51)
- Pretrial Detention (63) Exploring cost and outcome of detaining people before trial or deportation (ie. instead of bail or other alternatives)
- Prison Gerrymandering (33) Research on prison-based gerrymandering (see also www.prisonersofthecensus.org)
- Privatization (49)
- Probation and parole (32)
- Public Opinion (54)
- Race and ethnicity (219)
- Recidivism and Reentry (277) What makes people more or less likely to succeed upon release?
- Sentencing Policy and Practices (206) Relating to sentencing policy.
- Sexual offenses (40)
- Trials (152) Statistics about the court system and its processes
- Women (114)
- Youth (399) Criminal justice and young persons, the prison system’s effect on their lives
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Prison Gerrymandering Project
We are leading the movement to protect our democracy from the Census Bureau's prison miscount.
Legal Resources for Incarcerated People
The internet's first always-up-to-date list of organizations that provide legal services and resources for incarcerated people, organized by state.
Tracking State Prison Growth in 50 States
State-by-state briefing on prison growth (and occasional contraction) from 1978 to 2012
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