Sponsors
NACJD is sponsored by agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice. Each of our sponsors provides data to the archive, funds secondary analysis of criminal justice data, and sponsors educational workshops on quantitative methods in criminal justice research.
BJS
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is a federal agency that collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of the justice systems at all levels of government.
NIJ
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research agency established to prevent and reduce crime and to improve the criminal justice system. NIJ’s Data Resources Program collects, preserves, and disseminates data from award grantees.
OJJDP
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) provides leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization.
Our Parent Organization
NACJD was established in 1978 under the auspices of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), which is part of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan. ICPSR provides access to the world’s largest archive of computer-readable social science data and offers training facilities in basic and advanced techniques of quantitative social analysis.
NACJD is one of several special topical archives at ICPSR. Topical archives are funded by agencies external to ICPSR and focus on archiving data within specific topical areas. Most of the data collections in topical archives, including NACJD, are freely available to the public, whereas most ICPSR data collections are available only to researchers affiliated with member institutions.
More information about ICPSR and its data collections available through ICPSR can be found on the ICPSR website.