Serial Data

Serial data offer a number of different perspectives on the nature of crime and justice phenomena. These kinds of data make it possible to study patterns of stability or change and their correlates, to determine whether relationships observed at one time persist or may be different when observed over time, and to assess the effects of a planned as well as an unintended change.

NACJD contains a number of data series, reflecting the criminal justice field's attention to issues of stability and change. To assist interested users in identifying the extent and contents of series collections, they are listed on this page by subject area. Another reason for this listing is that some series datasets are actually comprised of multiple ICPSR study numbers while others are available as different parts within one study number. Those available under multiple study numbers are listed separately in our catalogs and, therefore, users may not fully appreciate or realize the extent of series collections maintained by NACJD.

1. Attitude Surveys

   • General Social Surveys (offsite link)

2. Community Surveys

   • National Survey of Black Americans

   • Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods

3. Corrections

   • Capital Punishment in the United States (BJS)

   • Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional and Shelter Facilities

   • Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities (BJS)

   • National Corrections Reporting Program Data (BJS)

   • National Jail Census (BJS)

   • Annual Survey of Jails (BJS)

   • Survey of Inmates of Local Jails (BJS)

   • Survey of Inmates of State and Federal Correctional Facilities (BJS)

4. Court Case Processing

   • Civil Justice Survey of State Courts (BJS)

   • Federal Court Cases: Integrated Database

   • Federal Justice Statistics Program Data (BJS)

   • Juvenile Court Statistics

   • Monitoring of Federal Criminal Convictions and Sentences: Appeals Data (BJS)

   • National Judicial Reporting Program Data (BJS)

   • Offender Based Transaction Statistics

   • State Court Processing Statistics (BJS)

   • State Court Statistics (BJS)

5. Courts

   • Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences (BJS)

   • National Prosecutors Survey (BJS)

   • Organizations Convicted in Federal Criminal Courts (BJS)

   • United States Supreme Court Judicial Database

6. Criminal Justice System

   • Expenditure and Employment Data for the Criminal Justice System (BJS)

   • National Justice Agency List (BJS)

7. Crime and Delinquency

8. Official Statistics

   • Mortality Detail Files

   • Multiple Cause of Death

   • National Incident-Based Reporting System

   • Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data (BJS)

   • United Nations Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems

9. Police

   • Directory of Law Enforcement Agencies (BJS)

   • Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (BJS)

10. Victimization

    • British Crime Surveys

    • International Crime Victimization Survey Series

    • National Crime Victimization Surveys (BJS)

11. Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime

    • Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program in the United States

    • Drug Abuse Warning Network

    • Monitoring the Future

    • National Household Survey on Drug Abuse