Date: 09-13-2023
The Council on Criminal Justice unveils a collection of 40 interactive charts that trace long-term changes in crime and victimization, arrests, incarceration, and community supervision. |
From The Council on Criminal Justice:
Analysts and reformers often talk about "shrinking the footprint" of the nation's criminal justice system. But how big is that footprint, and how does it compare to historical levels? While there are many sources that provide data on correctional control, they can be difficult to access and navigate, and information on long-term trends is often lacking.
Today, the Council on Criminal Justice unveils a collection of 40 interactive charts that trace long-term changes in crime and victimization, arrests, incarceration, and community supervision. The Footprint is designed to serve as a one-stop shop that puts current criminal justice levels in context for practitioners, policymakers, researchers, journalists, and others. Trends are broken down by crime type, age, race, and sex, and each chart presents calculations of the percentage changes in raw numbers and per capita rates from the earliest year reliable data became available to peak years, and from the peak Overall, The Footprint shows that while the size of the criminal justice system remains well above historical levels, it has shrunk considerably in recent years. years to the most current years.
Click here to explore this new online resource, which will be updated by CCJ when new data are published.
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