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Federal reporting and recent research show persistent racial disparities in U.S. homicide victimization and offending: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) data finds the Black homicide victimization ra...
Recent, high-quality work through 2024–2025 shows observed U.S. sexual recidivism is substantially lower than many public assumptions: pooled routine-sample estimates commonly fall in the single digit...
Major peer-reviewed and policy research finds U.S. news media routinely misrepresents race in crime coverage: television and print over‑represent minority suspects, use mugshots and custodial images o...
Black Americans experience significantly higher incarceration rates due to a combination of , with multiple analyses reporting incarceration rates roughly four-to-six times those of white Americans. R...
After adjusting for age, of and many forms of violent crime than white Americans, though the magnitude varies by crime type and over time; geography (concentrated disadvantage and urban segregation) e...
Raw arrest and victimization counts show Black Americans are overrepresented in many criminal-justice metrics relative to their share of the U.S. population, but those counts do not by themselves prov...
A felony conviction in the United States can result in loss of voting rights for millions, but the scope and duration of that disenfranchisement vary dramatically by state and over time; recent analys...
Available sources show persistent racial disparities in arrests, convictions and sentencing, with Black people arrested and incarcerated at higher rates than White people even after some statistical c...
Federal repositories document prosecution, sentencing and post-conviction outcomes in detail, but publicly available datasets that follow child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from initial identification...
The FBI’s published 2024 national rates put the violent‑crime rate at about 359.1 per 100,000 residents and the property‑crime rate at about 1,760.1 per 100,000 residents for 2024 (FBI summary reporte...
Research across the provided analyses attributes low crime rates in top-ranked states to a mix of rather than purely punitive policing or high incarceration. Reports emphasize that correlate with lowe...
Trump’s most tangible criminal-justice legacy was the bipartisan First Step Act, which produced measurable reductions in the federal prison population through sentence-shortening and early-release mec...
Racial bias in policing and arrest practices materially shapes reported crime statistics by inflating arrest rates for Black and Latinx people relative to their actual offending as measured by surveys...
Recent reporting and research show a substantial Black–white incarceration gap, but the size varies by measure and year: several Prison Policy Initiative pieces report that nationally Black people are...
Black and Hispanic people face the largest and most consistent racial disparities in arrests and convictions for drug offenses and for low‑level “quality‑of‑life” crimes—disparities that cannot be ful...
Crime in the United States fell sharply through 2025, with many analysts flagging historically large declines in homicide and sustained drops in violent and property crime compared with recent years ....
Research summaries and policy briefs cited in recent reporting show that prison sentences — especially long terms — produce limited deterrent effects and can sometimes increase future offending; the N...
Mass incarceration remains a central U.S. policy crisis: national counts hover around “nearly 2 million” people locked up and reforms have cut drug-prisoning but not ended mass incarceration . Major a...
There is no clean, published statistic that directly ties because state disenfranchisement laws, data systems, and privacy protections separate criminal records from party enrollment; researchers ther...
Across available reporting, for building new prisons in the since 2000 have varied widely—from low tens of thousands of dollars in older estimates to well over $100,000 per bed in recent large project...