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National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP)

BJS FY 10 NCRP Data Collection 2010-2013

Closing Date
The BJS seeks a data collection agent for the National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) for the years 2010 through 2013, to collect individual (or offender-level) data on prisoners entering and leaving the custody or supervision of state prison systems and discharges from parole. BJS uses these data to support its ongoing efforts to study changes in racial and offense composition of corrections populations, movements and...

BJS FY 10 Visiting Fellows Program: Corrections Statistics

Closing Date
The Bureau of Justice Statistics invites candidates to apply to its Visiting Fellow Program to undertake methodological research to enhance its capacity to use its National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) data for studying failure (and success) of state parolees, time served in prison and its contribution to changes in the size of the prison population, periods of imprisonment over the life course of offenders, and...

Recidivism of State Prisoners

BJS uses criminal history records to study the number and types of crimes committed by state prisoners both prior to and following their release. The first study tracked a sample of state prisoners released in 11 states in 1983, and the second study followed a sample of state prisoners released in 15 states in 1994. Both studies had a 3-year follow-up period. The latest study...

National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP)

The National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) collects offender-level administrative data annually on prison admissions and releases, and year-end custody populations, and on parole entries and discharges in participating jurisdictions. Demographic information, conviction offenses, sentence length, minimum time to be served, credited jail time, type of admission, type of release, and time served are collected from individual prisoner records. The collection began in 1983 and is...