Tribal justice
Tribal Crime Data Collection Activities, 2024
Tribal Crime Data Collection Activities, 2023
Tribal Law Enforcement in the United States, 2018
Tribal Crime Data Collection Activities, 2022
National Survey of Tribal Court Systems (NSTCS)
The legal institutions in Indian country revolve around four main entities: indigenous or traditional courts, general jurisdiction courts, appellate courts, and the Bureau of Indian Affair’s Code of Federal Regulation courts. The National Survey of Tribal Court Systems (NSTCS) is the first complete enumeration of tribal court systems operating in the United States and gathers administrative and operational information from tribal court systems, prosecutors’...
Tribal Crime Data Collection Activities, 2021
Tribal Crime
To improve the availability of data on crime in Indian country, BJS creates data tables containing information reported by tribal law enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and published in the annual Crime in United States (CIUS) publication. The tables include crime data for agencies that reported 12 complete months of data for the year, submitted by tribal law enforcement agencies and the Bureau...