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BJS FY 11 Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) Program

Closing Date
The FIST program collects counts of firearm transfers and permit checks conducted by state and local agencies and combines this information with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) transaction data. Under FIST, additional information is collected on reasons for denials, appeals of denials, and law enforcement actions the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives...

Victimization During Household Burglary

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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 Contact: Kara McCarthy (202) 307-1241
https://bjs.gov/ After hours: (202) 598-0556

HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS EXPERIENCED VIOLENCE IN ABOUT SEVEN PERCENT OF HOUSEHOLD BURGLARIES FROM 2003 THROUGH 2007

WASHINGTON – An estimated 3.7 million household burglaries occurred each year from 2003 through 2007, and about seven percent (266,560) involved some form of violent...

Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)

A national fingerprint and criminal history system maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division. The IAFIS provides automated fingerprint search capabilities, latent searching capability, electronic image storage, and electronic exchange of fingerprints and responses, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. As a result of submitting fingerprints electronically, agencies receive electronic responses to criminal 10-print fingerprint submissions within two hours and within 24 hours for civil fingerprint submissions. The IAFIS maintains the largest biometric database in the world, containing the fingerprints and corresponding criminal history information for more than 55 million subjects in the Criminal Master File. The fingerprints and corresponding criminal history information are submitted voluntarily by state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies.

Criminal Justice Information Services Advisory Policy Board (APB)

Successor to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) APB, the CJIS APB is comprised of 30 criminal justice officials who provide policy input to guide the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the administration of its CJIS Division. The CJIS Division administers the NCIC, the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), and other information system programs determined by the FBI director to have some relationship with these programs.

Guns and Crime: Handgun Victimization, Firearm Self-Defense

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1994                                202-307-0784
 
RECORD NUMBER OF HANDGUN CRIMES--NEARS ONE MILLION A YEAR
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The number of non-fatal crimes committed
with a handgun rose to a record level during 1992, the
Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
announced today. Handguns were used in an estimated 917,500
non-fatal crimes...

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Redesign

CRIME RATE ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED LAST YEAR


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BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS
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CRIME RATE ESSENTIALLY UNCHANGED LAST YEAR

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The number of Americans who were the victims of
crime remained essentially unchanged last year, according to a 
redesigned annual survey the Department of Justice published today.  
The new...

Criminal Victimization 1993

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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BJS  WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1995                      
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YOUNGEST TEENS AT GREATEST CRIME RISK

WASHINGTON, D.C.  During 1993, the youngest age
group surveyed--those 12 through 15 years old--had
the greatest risk of being violent crime victims,
the Department of Justice announced today.  The
risk decreased steadily with age, from 1 in 8
young people 12-15 years old...

Survey of Criminal History Information Systems, 1993

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1995           202-307-0784

   FIVE STATES SELECTED FOR SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING
     TO IMPROVE CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDKEEPING

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Maine, Mississippi, New
Mexico, West Virginia and Vermont will receive up
to $1 million each in federal funds to jump start
the automation of their criminal records.  
     
     Mississippi has computerized 7 percent of its
criminal history files, but...

Criminal Victimization 1994

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1996        202/307-0784

CRIME VICTIMIZATION DROPS THREE PERCENT 
FROM 1993 TO 1994

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Total violent and
property crime victimizations fell almost 3
percent from 1993 to 1994, the Justice Department
reported today.   Violent crime rates leveled off
during that period, after falling 20 percent
between 1981 and 1986 and...

Firearm Injury from Crime: Firearms, Crime, and Criminal Justice





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THURSDAY APRIL 11, 1996          202/307-0784

ONE-QUARTER OF THE CRIME VICTIMS WHO ARE SHOT
ARE YOUNG BLACK MALES

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A federal study of non-
fatal firearm injuries from crime shows that
almost 90 percent of such victims were male, 59
percent were black and 49 percent were from 15 to
24 years...

National Crime Victimization Survey, 1995: Preliminary Findings

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1996                          202/633-3047



     VICTIMS REPORT 9 PERCENT FEWER VIOLENT CRIMES LAST YEAR


     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Violent crimes fell more than 9 percent
last year, the Department of Justice announced today.  According
to preliminary estimates by the Department's Bureau of Justice
Statistics (BJS), there were an estimated 9.9 million violent
crimes during 1995, compared to about...

Sex Offenses and Offenders

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1997             202/633-3047

     SIXTY PERCENT OF CONVICTED SEX OFFENDERS
            ARE ON PAROLE OR PROBATION

        Rapes and Sexual Assaults Decline

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- According to a report
released today by the Justice Department's Bureau
of Justice Statistics (BJS), on any given day in
1994 almost 60 percent of the 234,000 convicted
sex...

Changes in Criminal Victimization, 1994-95

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

ADVANCE FOR RELEASE AT 4:30 P.M. EDT           BJS
SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 1997                202/633-3047

  VIOLENT CRIME DECLINED 12.4 PERCENT DURING 1995
           Largest Drop in Survey History

     WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Between 1994 and 1995
violent crime--rape, robbery and assault--dropped
12.4 percent, the Justice Department's Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS) said today.  The decline
was the largest since BJS' National Crime
Victimization Survey began...