Learn more about BJS’s activities in October 2026. Click on the headings below for details.
BJS Releases Preliminary Victimization Estimates for 2025 from the Redesigned NCVS
BJS released Preliminary Victimization Estimates from the NCVS, 2025, a report that presents preliminary 2025 violent and property victimization estimates from the redesigned National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS-R) instrument. Administered to persons age 12 or older from a nationally representative sample of U.S. households, the survey collects information on nonfatal personal and household property crimes, including those that are reported and not reported to police. BJS fully transitioned to the NCVS-R in January 2025. The NCVS-R estimates are not comparable to legacy NCVS estimates. BJS will publish final estimates from the 2025 NCVS, which may differ from these preliminary estimates, in Criminal Victimization, 2025 (forthcoming in 2027).
New BJS Publications on Reports of Inmate Sexual Victimization
BJS released Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2021–2022 – Statistical Tables and Sexual Victimization Reported by Juvenile Justice Authorities, 2019–2022 – Statistical Tables. Both reports present findings from the BJS Survey of Sexual Victimization, conducted annually since 2004 to meet the requirements of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108–79).
Sexual Victimization Reported by Adult Correctional Authorities, 2021–2022 – Statistical Tables provides counts and rates of allegations of inmate-on-inmate and staff-on-inmate sexual victimization across all types of adult correctional facilities. The report also provides summary-level information for 2021 and 2022 separately and aggregated estimates for substantiated incidents of sexual victimization for 2021 and 2022, reflective of both years.
Sexual Victimization Reported by Juvenile Justice Authorities, 2019–2022 – Statistical Tables presents counts and rates of allegations of youth-on-youth and staff-on-youth sexual victimization in state juvenile systems and in locally or privately operated juvenile facilities. The report presents summary-level information separately for each year from 2019 through 2022. It also includes detailed information about substantiated incidents aggregated for 2019 through 2022.
New BJS Releases Describe Homicide Victimization and Crime Reported to Law Enforcement Agencies
BJS released three new reports: Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2025, Homicide Victimization in the United States, 2025, and Homicide Victimization in the United States, 2024. These reports present findings on violent and property crime in the United States, including homicide victimization, and are based on BJS’s and the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), which collects detailed information on crime incidents reported to law enforcement agencies across the country.
Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2025 details rates of violent and property crime in the United States based on offenses reported by law enforcement agencies in 2024 and 2025. It presents national and subnational estimates of crime offenses and victimizations for violent and property crime. Findings in this report, the third in an annual series, are based on the NIBRS Estimation Program.
Homicide Victimization in the United States, 2025 and Homicide Victimization in the United States, 2024 provide the number and rate of homicide victimizations reported by law enforcement agencies in the United States, including victim demographic characteristics, victim-offender relationships, the type of weapon(s) present, and the number of victims involved in the incident.
Access the 2025 Homicide Report
Access the 2024 Homicide Report
New BJS Statistical Tables Reports Examine Sexual Victimization Reported by Inmates in Local Jails and Prisons
BJS released Characteristics of Sexual Victimization in Local Jails Reported by Inmates, 2023–24 – Statistical Tables and Characteristics of Sexual Victimization in Prisons Reported by Inmates, 2023–24 – Statistical Tables. These reports present findings from the fourth National Inmate Survey (NIS-4) in local jails and state and federal prisons, respectively, and describe characteristics of victims, perpetrators, and incidents related to inmate-reported sexual victimization.
NCVS Instrument Redesign Implementation and First Victimization Estimates
BJS released Update on the NCVS Instrument Redesign: Full Implementation of the New Instrument and Victimization Estimates from the Redesigned NCVS Instrument, 2024. These reports provide an update on the implementation of the redesigned instrument and present the first victimization estimates produced with it.
Update on the NCVS Instrument Redesign: Full Implementation of the New Instrument highlights key changes between the redesigned and legacy instruments and describes updates to the data processing steps. The report also details next steps for the redesigned instrument.
Victimization Estimates from the Redesigned NCVS Instrument, 2024 examines differences in victimization estimates between the two instruments from the 2024 split-sample administration.
Read the Methodology and Results Behind the FY 2025 JAG Formula-Based Award Calculations
BJS released Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program, 2025. The report describes the steps used to calculate the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) formula-based award amounts and presents summary results of the fiscal year 2025 calculations. The JAG program provides states, tribes, and local governments with critical funding necessary to support a range of criminal justice areas. States and localities receive funds based on their resident population reported by the U.S. Census Bureau and on violent crime data reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
BJS Releases 2024 Statistics on Federal Deaths in Custody and During Arrest
BJS released Federal Deaths in Custody and During Arrest, 2024 – Statistical Tables. The report presents statistics on deaths that occur during federal arrest, detention, and incarceration in the United States. It is the seventh in a series in response to the Death in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA) of 2013 (P.L. 113–242) that requires federal law enforcement agencies to report information about the death of any person who dies while detained, under arrest, being arrested, or in the custody of federal law enforcement officers. It describes decedent, incident, and facility characteristics for deaths in federal custody and during arrest by federal law enforcement agencies during fiscal year 2024.
BJS Releases 2025 Crime Data Updates for LEARCAT
BJS updated the Law Enforcement Agency Reported Crime Analysis Tool (LEARCAT) with the latest 2025 crime statistics and enhanced analytical capabilities. LEARCAT is a dashboard that enables users to examine crime information reported by participating law enforcement agencies to the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System.
NCVS API Updated with 2024 Data
BJS updated the Application Programming Interface (API) codebooks for the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), in order to provide researchers with 2024 data and enhanced documentation to access and analyze victimization data.
BJS Adds 2025 Data to the NIBRS National Estimates API
BJS updated the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) National Estimates API with 2025 data and the accompanying codebooks. NIBRS presents nationally representative data at the incident, offense, and victim-level data for crime reported by law enforcement.
BJS Informational Webinar: 2025 Census of Prosecutor Offices
On Wednesday, October 14, 2026, BJS held an informational webinar on the 2025 Census of Prosecutor Offices. The session explained why participation matters, how the data will be used, and the privacy protections BJS has in place. With more than 2,300 prosecutor offices across the country, it was essential to provide an accessible forum that equipped respondents with the information they need at the start of data collection. A recording will be posted later.
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