All posts tagged "Bureau Of Justice Statistics"

The incidence of sexual violence is likely sharply underreported in a closely-watched barometer of US crime because of the way it's designed, an expert panel said Tuesday.

Southern states are more violent than any region, according to a recently released crime index created with U.S. government statistics.

Harsh sentencing policies and the use of confidential informants has created a racially discriminatory criminal justice system in Mississippi that harms innocent individuals and erodes the rule of law, according to a report released Monday by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Mississippi.

Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) have defended their state's controversial new immigration crackdown on grounds of spiraling crime in Arizona due to the lack of security along the US-Mexico border. But new studies finds that spillover violence from Mexico has been "declining," bringing into question the timing and validity of this rationale.