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FY 2023 Survey of Prison Inmates Research and Development

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, has periodically collected information through personal interviews with people in prisons since 1974 (see Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI) at https: bjs.ojp.gov data collection survey prison inmates spi.) The purpose of this award is to provide funding for a collection agent to update and field test the existing 2016 SPI...

FY 2021 National Census of Victim Service Providers

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Since 2015, between 2 and 4 billion has been allocated to crime victim services each year. BJS designed the National Census of Victim Service Providers (NCVSP) as a foundational data collection that describes the size and scope of the victim service provider field, monitors characteristics of agencies overtime, and describes the types of victims that receive services, particularly victims that are difficult to reach in...