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Independent agency of the U.S. federal judiciary which determines sentencing guidelines
The most recent published compilations indicate the U.S. saw roughly , with organizations estimating ; independent count and classification differences mean the exact rape total varies by source . Fed...
Official data do not support a single, precise national percentage of U.S. prisoners who are unauthorized (illegal) immigrants for 2024; federal reporting covers only portions of the system, and , mak...
The available data do not support a simple answer to which in the United States; different datasets measure different things and produce different signals. Federal sentencing data show a higher absolu...
Data from U.S. reporting and multiple studies show that a plurality or majority of recorded child-sex offenders and child-abuse perpetrators are white in raw counts — for example, Statista cites about...
Available reporting in the provided documents does not give a single, authoritative annual count of U.S. CSAM convictions for each year of the last decade; some items cite discrete prosecution results...
The available 2024 data and related analyses consistently indicate that among U.S. racial groups in the provided materials. Multiple datasets and summaries—covering sentencing records, lifetime preval...
Federal gun law in 2025 remains a patchwork of existing statutes, recent federal actions, and ongoing legislative proposals: the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) and NICS background-check proce...
There is no single, authoritative count of “how many illegal immigrants committed felonies” because different agencies measure different populations (apprehensions, detainees, convictions, noncitizen ...
There is no single, publicly available dataset in the provided sources that lists annual U.S. convictions for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) broken down by federal versus state prosecutions; feder...
Law-enforcement detection and reporting of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) surged between 2015 and the early 2020s — for example, NCMEC’s CyberTipline rose from about 4.4 million reports in 2015 to...
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...
Accessing child pornography in the United States in 2025 carries severe criminal penalties at both the federal and state levels, with typical federal sentences running and mandatory minimums that rise...
No single authoritative list in the provided reporting labels particular U.S. states as uniformly “soft on felony crimes”; instead, coverage highlights shifting policies at both federal and state leve...
Available national data show counts and rates of reported or substantiated child abuse by race/ethnicity but do not provide a single, widely‑used “per capita conviction rate for child sexual abuse by ...
Federal sentencing data for 2024 show that , accounting for roughly 72–76% of federal sentences for noncitizens in the datasets cited. The United States Sentencing Commission’s FY2024 tallies list of ...
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...
Plea deals routinely change charges, guideline computations, and exposure to mandatory minimums in federal CSAM cases; prosecutors can negotiate down from receipt/distribution (five‑year minimum) or p...
Federal sentencing rules and statutory mandatory minimums work together to make penalties for possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) severe and, in some cases, rigid: federal statutes such as 1...
The available materials do not provide a reliable, comprehensive count of how many sexual offenders have existed in the United States since the 1950s, nor any verified partisan breakdown between Repub...