2021 State Justice Statistics: Juvenile Justice Data Collection and Alcohol Related Crime Trends
15PBJS-21-GK-00033-BJSB
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2021
$222,359
U.S. Department of Justice ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1998 202/307-0784 FOUR IN TEN CRIMINAL OFFENDERS REPORT ALCOHOL AS A FACTOR IN VIOLENCE But Alcohol-Related Deaths and Consumption in Decline WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Although alcohol consumption and alcohol-related deaths are in decline, alcohol abuse is still linked to a large percentage of criminal offenses, the Justice Department's Bureau of...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EST BJS SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1998 202/307-0784 ALMOST HALF OF ALL PROBATIONERS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL OR DRUGS WHEN COMMITTING THEIR OFFENSE WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Almost half of the men and women on probation in the United States were under the influence of alcohol or illegal drugs at the time of their criminal offense...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 10:00 A.M. EST BJS TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1999 202/307-0784 MORE THAN THREE-QUARTERS OF PRISONERS HAD ABUSED DRUGS IN THE PAST WASHINGTON, D.C. Fifty-seven percent of state prisoners and 45 percent of federal prisoners surveyed in 1997 said they had used drugs in the month before their offense--up from 50 percent and 32 percent reported in a 1991...
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT BJS SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1999 202/307-0784 MORE THAN 500,000 DRUNK DRIVERS ON PROBATION OR INCARCERATED IN 1997 WASHINGTON, D.C. An estimated 513,200 people were under correctional supervision as a consequence of driving while intoxicated by alcohol (DWI) in 1997 up from 270,100 in 1986, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today...