The Virginia Pre-Trial Data Project (VCSC)
VCSC followed 22,986 adult defendants charged with a criminal offense in October 2017.1 Each case was tracked until final disposition or December 31, 2018, w...
- Criminal Charges & Court Records 4
- Police Records 4
- Law enforcement agencies and officers 2
- Criminal Activity 2
- Longitudinal Studies 1
- Other 1
- Data about Inmates 1
Criminal Charges & Court Records
The NeuLaw Criminal Record Database (NeuLaw)
A database that contains millions of court records from 1977 to 2014 from Harris County in Texas, New York City, and Miami-Dade County in Florida. Each recor...
The JUdicial System Transparency for Fairness through Archived/Inferred Records (JUSTFAIR)
JUSTFAIR is a database of criminal sentencing decisions from Federal district courts. There are over 570,000 records from the years 2001 – 2018, complied fro...
The Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS)
COMPAS is a predictive tool used by judges and parole officers. The tool produces an automated risk score to predict the probability of re-offending within a...
Police Records
Uniform Crime Reporting Program Summary Reporting System (UCR SRS)
A program reporting aggregate data on arrests, collected from more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies. Although UCR provides much less detail than NIBRS, t...
The Stanford Open Policing Project (OPP)
A source of standardized data on vehicle and pedestrian stops from law enforcement departments. The data is not comprehensive, i.e., not all stops are includ...
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
The main program of data collections from law enforcement agencies in the US. Through NIBRS, the FBI collects incident-level data on crime from law enforceme...
Collated Police Incident Index (CPII)
A collection of 20 data sources containing incident-level data from police departments, obtained from \citep{zhou2021empirical}. This data is less standardiz...
Law enforcement agencies and officers
The Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS)
A periodic survey collecting data on law enforcement agencies, conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The latest cohort, 2016, includes over 3,000 ag...
The Chicago Police Department (CPD) Dataset
CPD contains information on ~ 35,000 officers in the Chicago Police Department. The raw data was obtained via Freedom of Information requests. Each officer i...
Criminal Activity
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
A national annual survey on tobacco, alcohol and drug use, and health-related issues. ~ 70,000 individuals are asked about their use of substances and their ...
The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
A national annual survey conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. A representative sample of ~ 240,000 people are asked whether they were victims of cr...
Longitudinal Studies
Pathways to Desistance study
A project that followed 1,354 serious juvenile offenders from adolescence to young adulthood. Participants between the ages of 14 and 18 years old were enrol...
Other
Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS)
A dataset containing information on over 2,200 violent and non-violent extremists in the United States. The dataset covers various ideologies (e.g., far righ...
Data about Inmates
Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI)
A periodic survey of prison inmates in state and sentenced federal prisons, conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The latest cohort, 2016, included ...