Race and/or ethnicity
Sentencing in the Federal Courts: Does Race Matter? The Transition to Sentencing Guidelines, 1986-90
Date Published
December 1993
Publication Type
Publication
Race
For the National Crime Victimization Survey, respondents self identify with one or more racial categories. Racial categories defined by the Office of Management and Budget are American Indian or Alaska Native; Asian; black or African American; Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander; and white. The race of the head of household is used in determining the race of the household for computing household crime demographics.
Non-Hispanic
Persons who report their culture or origin as something other than "Hispanic" as defined above. This distinction is made regardless of race.
Hispanic
A person who describes himself or herself as Mexican American, Chicano, Mexican, Mexicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central American, South American, or from some other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.
Ethnicity
A classification based on Hispanic culture and origin, regardless of race. Persons are asked directly if they are Spanish, Hispanic, or Latino before being asked about their racial category.
Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98
Date Published
March 2001
Publication Type
Publication
Violent Victimization and Race, 1993-98
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DIFFERENCES IN RATES OF VIOLENT CRIME EXPERIENCED BY WHITES AND BLACKS NARROW
American Indians Are The Most Victimized By Violence
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Violent victimization of both blacks and whites has decreased significantly since 1993, the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today in a report analyzing crime statistics from 1993-1998...
State Police Traffic Stop Data Collection Procedures
Collected data from state law enforcement agencies with traffic patrol responsibility about their policies for recording race and ethnicity data for persons in traffic stops. Basic information was obtained on the circumstances under which demographic data were collected for traffic-related stops and whether this information was stored in an electronically accessible format. The data collection was not designed to obtain available agency databases containing traffic-stop...