Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

Time 2020-07-09 16:07:24

Web Name: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

WebSite: http://www.bjs.gov

ID:23552

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Corrections | Local jail inmates and jail facilities Corrections | State and federal prisoners and prison facilities Corrections | Community Corrections (Probation and Parole) Corrections | Mortality in Correctional Institutions (MCI) (Formerly Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP)) Corrections | Prison Rape Elimination Act (Sexual Victimization in Correctional Facilities) Crime Type | Human Trafficking/Trafficking in Persons Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program | National Criminal History Improvement Program Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program | State Justice Statistics Program Criminal Justice Data Improvement Program | The NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 Law Enforcement | Law Enforcement Training Academies This site requires a Javascript-enabled browser, click here for additional information. In 2018, the combined state and federal imprisonment rate (431 sentenced prisoners per 100,000 U.S. residents) was the lowest since 1996. The total imprisonment rate fell 15% from 2008 to 2018. From 2008 to 2018, the imprisonment rate dropped 28% among black residents, 21% among Hispanic residents, and 13% among white residents. In 2018, the imprisonment rate of black residents was the lowest since 1989. Note: Rates are based on prisoners sentenced to serve more than one year in state or federal prison. See table 5 in Prisoners in 2018 for rates from 2008 to 2018. *Includes all races, including those not shown separately in the figure. Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics,Prisoners in 2018 (NCJ 253516, BJS, April 2020).BJS is seeking a supervisory statistician to serve as chief of the Corrections Unit. Applicants must have a bachelor's or higher-level degree from an accredited college or university with a specific number of hours in statistics and other related topics. See the Qualifications Statement for a full list of eligibility requirements. Job duties include planning, scheduling, and assigning work to supervised staff and providing technical guidance to contractors or grantees to ensure work is performed according to established procedures, specifications, and requirements developing and following best practices related to data collection, analysis, and dissemination and performing statistical data-collection activities to satisfy immediate, mid-range, and long-term statistical data collection requirements consulting and collaborating with governmental officials, professional associations, and others to advise on the application of statistics to criminal justice issues, policies, and programs.Apply now. Applications are due by July 14, 2020.Public comments requested on the proposed extension of BJS data collection: Annual Probation Survey and Annual Parole Survey BJS encourages comments for 60 days until August 3, 2020, on the proposed extension of a currently approved data collection: Annual Probation Survey and Annual Parole Survey. Your comments on BJS s request to the Office of Management and Budget, which is published in the Federal Register, should address points such as whether the proposed data collection is necessary, including whether the information will have practical utility the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of data, including the validity of the methodology and assumptions whether and how the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected can be enhanced the burden of the information collection on respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques.

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