U.S. Statistics on ethnicity and crime
Criminal Victimization
- Jennifer Truman, Lynn Langton, and Michael Planty, Bureau of Justice Statistics Statisticians have released a report on "Criminal Victimization, 2012" (2013) that contains victimization by ethnicity statistics. Their statistics are aggregated from the microdata obtained by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
- The Federal Bureau of Investigation collects national microdata on crime in the United States. Arrests by race statistics are shown in this table. Further tables on crime by race at cities level, and by suburban area are available from this page.
- Also, the FBI hosts many of its statistics on the data.gov website. Crime in the Uninted States data which includes ethnicity is located here.
- The Federal Bureau of Prisons has a very simple and user friendly website that supplies statistics on their inmate population. For example, inmates by race are shown in this chart.
U.S. microdata on ethnicity and crime
- The Bureau of Justice Statistics makes their National Crime Victimization Survey microdata available through the ICPSR. Note that you may have to setup an account to access the downloads on their data page. The ICPSR website has the advantage of already formatting the data and syntax files for SPSS.
- The Bureau of Justice Statistics Police-Public Contact Survey (2008) microdata is also available from the ICPSR, and allows for SPSS formatted files to be downloaded. This survey contains microdata on the race of both the police officers and the members of the public that they stop, including the outcome of the encounter.
- The Bureau of Justice Statistics conducted a Census of Jail Inmates (2005), this microdata contains information on the ethnicity of the inmates and other demographic and health data. A compressed file containing data (.txt), SPSS syntax (.sps), SPSS readable (.sav), Codebook (.pdf), and Portable (.por) files is available for download here as a compressed (.zip) file.