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BJS has launched a new Survey of Prison Inmates Data Analysis Tool (SPI DAT). The dynamic analysis tool modernizes public access to the most recent SPI data (2016) with interactive data visualizations. The SPI DAT allows users to readily analyze data, view selected charts, and create custom charts for a range of characteristics of persons in federal prisons, state prisons, and all persons in U.S...
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11,101 FATAL AND 467,300 NONFATAL FIREARM VICTIMIZATIONS OCCURRED IN 2011
WASHINGTON–Firearm-related homicides declined 39 percent and nonfatal firearm crimes declined 69 percent from 1993 to 2011, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. Firearm-related homicides dropped...
