HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE BJS JUSTICE EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT SERIES The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) began the collection of justice expenditure and employment data with fiscal year 1971, using a special sample drawn by the U. S. Census Bureau especially for this purpose. The annual Survey of Criminal Justice Expenditure and Employment (CJEE Survey) provided comparable trend data from 1971 to 1979. That survey was the source of detailed, comprehensive statistics on the justice activities of the federal, state, and local governments. Each annual survey resulted in a preliminary report or BJS Bulletin, a publication of detailed tabulations of national and state-local estimates as well as individual government data,a volume displaying trends since 1971, and additional data accessible on magnetic tape. In 1980, BJS discontinued the CJEE Survey for budgetary reasons following the collection of 1979 data. The cancellation of the CJEE Survey left a gap in national criminal justice statistics, which the CJEE Extracts series is designed to fill, albeit on a limited basis. Instead of presenting data based on a separate survey, the CJEE Extracts contain justice expenditure and employment data from the Census Bureau's annual sample surveys of government finances and public employment. The Census Bureau surveys have traditionally provided limited data on the justice sectors of police protection (from 1902) and corrections (from 1954), with slightly more data being collected for state governments and the largest local governments. Beginning with 1982, these surveys began collecting judicial and legal services data as a separate category, allowing for the CJEE extracts program to estimate total justice expenditure and employment. This is done by extracting criminal justice data from the Census Bureau's annual government finance and employment surveys. Special CJEE Surveys collected 1985, 1988, and 1990 CJEE Survey data that are comparable to data for 1971 to 1979. The current Extracts methodology produces considerably less detailed information than is available from those special CJEE Surveys. Another significant difference, which is not as noticeable, relates to the comparability of the CJEE Extracts variables to the variables in those CJEE Surveys. In many instances, variables by the same name are not comparable between the two programs. While great care was taken to adjust the source data to maximize comparability with the CJEE Survey data, irreducible differences remain. These are detailed in CJEECOMP.TXT (Comparability Issues Between the CJEE Survey and the CJEE Extracts Programs) on this zip archive. In making trend comparisons, users should limit their analysis to one of the two sources: -- long-term trends for 1971-79, 1985, 1988, and 1990 from the CJEE Survey series -- more recent trends from 1980 using the CJEE Extracts data. Only CJEE Extracts data are available from the BJS website.