Data collections

Per the Federal Deaths in Custody Reporting Act statute (P.L. 113-242), the head of federal law enforcement agencies are required to submit a report that contains information regarding the death of any person while that person is detained, under arrest, or in the process of being arrested by federal law enforcement officers or while in custody. In response to the legislation, BJS was designated the...

Award funds to assess the feasibility of restarting the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts and the Civil Justice Survey of State Courts-Trials on Appeal data collections, using new approaches.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) seeks a vendor to support research and testing activities related to development of a new data collection that will measure access to justice for civil legal needs. As the Department's principal federal statistical agency, BJS is responsible for the collection, analysis, publication, and dissemination of statistics on crime, criminal offenders...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, has periodically collected information through personal interviews with people in prisons since 1974 (see Survey of Prison Inmates (SPI) at https://bjs.ojp.gov/data-collection/survey-prison-inmates-spi.) The purpose of this award is to provide funding for a collection agent to update and field test the existing 2016 SPI instrument for administration to inmates in a...

The National Prison Rape Statistics Program (NPRSP), developed upon passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, entails the collection of both administrative and self-report data on sexual violence from State and Federal prisons, locally operated jails, and public and private facilities for juvenile offenders in the nation. The National Inmate Survey (NIS) is one of the data collections developed under the NPRSP. The...