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

机译：确保美国司法统计的质量，信誉和相关性

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The Bureau of Justice statistics (BJS) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) 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. BJS requested that this panel be convened to examine the full range of BJS requested that this panel be convened to examine the full range of BJS programs and suggest priorities for data collection. We descirbed the current methods of and future options for the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) in an interim report (National Research Council, 2008B). This final report considers the balance of BJS's portfolio, its assistance to state and local authorities, and functions of BJS as a whole. We conclude that 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. We identify some Major gaps in the Substantive Coverage of BJS data, such as white-collar Crime, civil justice, juvenile justice, and contextual factors such as the interaction between drugs and crime. However, the methodological challenges involved in filling these major gaps preclude doing so under BJS's current funding; it would require increased and sustained support in terms of staff and fiscal resources. BJS generally espouses the principles and practices of a federal statistical agency, but it has sustained major shocks to its position of independence as a national statistical resource in recent years. We suggest two strong organizational measures to reduct the likelihood that BJS and its officials are inappropriately treated in the future. Concluding that BJS 's current adminstrative position within the Office of Justic Programs (OJP) is detrimental to the agency's function, we recommend that BJS be moved out of OJP. We futher recommend that the position of BJS director be made a fixed-term presidential appointment with Senate confirmation.

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