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New BJS data on federal criminal justice realities

By Douglas A. Berman

A new report just released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics provides a different perspective on federal crime and punishment than is provided by the data produced by the US Sentencing Commission. The new BJS report, titled simply "Federal Justice Statistics, 2005" and available online at this link, provides arrest data and other case-processing information that provides a more complete view of the massive realities of the federal criminal justice system. This official press release provides an overview of some of the many interesting particulars appearing in the full BJS report:Immigration and drug arrests comprised more than half of the 140,200 federal suspects arrested and booked by the U.S. Marshals in 2005, the Justice Department?s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).