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Prosecution

Since 1990, BJS has sponsored periodic national surveys or censuses of prosecutor offices through its National Survey of Prosecutors (NSP). This program collects data on the resources, policies, and practices of the prosecution component of state court systems. NSP gathers general administration information on annual office budgets, the tenure and salaries of chief state court prosecutors, and the number of full-time office staff—including attorneys, investigators, victim...

Survey of State Attorneys General Offices (SSAGO)

The Survey of State Attorneys General Offices was designed to collect data on special topic areas. The first survey in the series addressed jurisdiction over white-collar crime and the second addressed jurisdiction over human-trafficking offenses. Because the roles and responsibilities of attorneys general vary by state, the White-Collar Crime survey was a census of the 50 states and the District of Columbia; the Human Trafficking...