Criminal Cases in State Courts (continuation award)

The Criminal Cases in State Courts (CCSC) was originally solicited as the Analysis of Publicly Available Data (APACD) in FY2018 to collect case-level state court data using a variety of methods. During the project, BJS and the project team determined a larger sample size was necessary to generate nationally representative statistics. Additionally, BJS and the project team restricted the data collection methodology to include only data extracts, both of which drove up the cost of data collection. The noncompetitive award will allow the project team to collect, clean, standardize, merge, and assist BJS with analyzing data from 150 jurisdictions.