Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics
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Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics

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Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics

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About this book

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice is one of the smallest of the U.S. principal statistical agencies but shoulders one of the most expansive and detailed legal mandates among those agencies. Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics examines the full range of BJS programs and suggests priorities for data collection.BJS's data collection portfolio is a solid body of work, well justified by public information needs or legal requirements and a commendable effort to meet its broad mandate given less-than-commensurate fiscal resources. The book identifies some major gaps in the substantive coverage of BJS data, but notes that filling those gaps would require increased and sustained support in terms of staff and fiscal resources.In suggesting strategic goals for BJS, the book argues that the bureau's foremost goal should be to establish and maintain a strong position of independence. To avoid structural or political interference in BJS work, the report suggests changing the administrative placement of BJS within the Justice Department and making the BJS directorship a fixed-term appointment.In its thirtieth year, BJS can look back on a solid body of accomplishment; this book suggests further directions for improvement to give the nation the justice statistics--and the BJS--that it deserves.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780309144568
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  3. PANEL TO REVIEW THE PROGRAMS OF THE BUREAU OF JUSTICE STATISTICS
  4. COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL STATISTICS 2008–2009
  5. COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE 2008–2009
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. List of Boxes
  11. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  12. Abstract
  13. Summary
  14. –1– Introduction
  15. –2– Measurement in the Justice System
  16. –3– Overview of Bureau of Justice Statistics Data Series
  17. –4– State and Local Partnerships
  18. –5– Principles and Practices: BJS as a Principal U.S. Federal Statistical Agency
  19. –6– Strategic Goals for the Bureau of Justice Statistics
  20. References
  21. Appendixes