Learn more about BJS’s activities in January 2026! Click on the headings below for details.
View the 2026 Publications and Products Calendar
BJS released its publications and products list for calendar year 2026.
Read about recent BJS data collection activities on human trafficking
BJS released Human Trafficking Data Collection Activities, 2025. This report describes BJS’s activities during 2024 and 2025 to collect data and report on human trafficking as required by the Combat Human Trafficking Act of 2015 (34 U.S.C. § 20709(e)).
It details ongoing and completed efforts to measure and analyze the nationwide incidence of human trafficking, to describe characteristics of human trafficking victims and offenders, and to describe criminal justice responses to human trafficking offenses. Additionally, the report provides information on human trafficking investigated and prosecuted by U.S. attorneys, human trafficking defendants convicted and sentenced to federal prison, and admissions to state prison for human trafficking.
Learn about the wellness programs available to law enforcement agencies
BJS released Health and Wellness Resources Available to Law Enforcement, 2022. This report covers which health and wellness resources are available to law enforcement agencies, and which are most offered, depending on the size of the agency. Findings are from the 2022 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics Post-Academy Training and Officer Wellness supplemental survey. Administered for the first time in 2023, this survey collected data from a nationally representative sample of general-purpose state and local law enforcement agencies.
Law Enforcement Agency Reported Crime Analysis Tool updated with 2024 data
BJS updated its Law Enforcement Agency Reported Crime Analysis Tool (LEARCAT). Launched in 2022, LEARCAT allows users to examine crime information reported to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) by participating law enforcement agencies nationwide. Users can explore data at both the incident and victimization levels. The update also displays monthly incident counts at the state and NIBRS-reporting agency levels.
Updated Recidivism Patterns Explorer tool now available
BJS revamped and enhanced the Recidivism Patterns Explorer (RPE), formerly the Prisoner Recidivism Analysis Tool (PRAT). The RPE allows users to select graphs and tables with recidivism rates on cohorts of released prisoners by their demographic characteristics, criminal histories, and commitment offenses. It includes results from BJS’s national studies on persons released from state prisons in 2005, 2008, and 2012. The tool presents recidivism patterns according to three measures: persons with a new arrest following release, persons with a new conviction following release, and persons who returned to prison.
Updates to the tool include new functionality allowing users to filter and produce estimates using up to two characteristics, such as rearrest rates by offense type and by age. This latest iteration includes our largest sample to date, with arrest records covering more states than the previous version of the tool.
BJS is seeking applications for the following six funding opportunities. See the Opportunities and Awards page for more details.
BJS FY25 Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA)
The CLETA collection provides national statistics on recruits, staff, training curricula, equipment, and facilities from training academies that are responsible for administering mandatory basic training to newly appointed or elected law enforcement officers. These academies are operated by state, county, and municipal agencies and by universities, colleges, and technical schools.
BJS FY25 Survey of Public Defenders (SPD)
This collection implements a full national collection of the SPD using the survey instrument and recommendations from the 2021 SPD pilot study and 2024 Census of Public Defender Offices frame as the universe for the sample. The goal of the FY2025 SPD is to collect and disseminate national statistics and data about the characteristics, activities, and workload of the estimated 15,000 public defenders in the United States.
BJS FY25 National Victimization Statistical Support Program (NVSSP)
The program provides scientific and technical support for statistical and methodological research, statistical analysis, documentation, and dissemination related to BJS work on crime and victimization. Specifically, the NVSSP will support general methodological research related to improving the utility and cost-effectiveness of BJS’s National Crime Victimization Survey.
BJS FY25 National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) National Prisoner Statistics (NPS) Program, Reference Years 2025-2029
The NCRP and NPS programs measure the size and composition of state and federal prison populations on an annual basis by obtaining aggregate and detailed individual-level information on people incarcerated in state departments of corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
BJS FY25 Consolidated National Criminal History Improvement Program (NCHIP)
The program combines three previously separate funding opportunities to provide grants to assist states, state court systems, territories, and federally recognized tribes. The funding opportunity aims to reduce violent crime and address gun violence by improving the accuracy, utility, and interstate accessibility of criminal history and related records, and updating the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System with information which may disqualify individuals from purchasing or possessing firearms.
Apply for the FY25 Consolidated NCHIP
BJS FY25 State Justice Statistics (SJS) Program for Statistical Analysis Centers (SACs)
The program supports the collection, analysis, and dissemination of statistical information on crime and criminal justice at the state and local levels.
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