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WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released Arrest in the United States, 1990-2010, which presents annual estimates of arrests in the United States covering the period from 1990 through 2010. Based on data collected by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, this report expands the FBI's set of published arrest estimates to include offense-specific arrest estimates grouped by age, sex and race. These...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than half of the nation's violent crimes, or nearly 3.4 million violent victimizations per year, went unreported to the police between 2006 and 2010, according to a new report published by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Using data from BJS's National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), this new report examines characteristics of unreported victimizations, the reasons victims did not report crimes and trends from 1994...

AlertID, Inc., which provides a free online and mobile service for members and public safety officials, today announced that it provides alerts from state sex offender databases (“SODs”) to 166 million people or more than half (53%) of the US population. Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) August 08, 2012 AlertID, Inc., which provides a free online and mobile service for members and public safety officials, today announced that it provides alerts from state sex offender databases (“SODs”)...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At the end of 2009, the nation's publicly funded crime labs had an estimated backlog of 1.2 million requests for forensic services, relatively unchanged from the backlog at yearend 2008, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. A request was defined as backlogged if it had not been completed within 30 days. In 2009, the 411 federal, state, county and municipal labs began the year with more than 1.0 million backlogged...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Two of the nation's leading providers of technology to local sheriffs' offices have announced a new content publishing agreement that will enhance the public's ability to protect themselves from sex offenders. Appriss is the leading provider of smartphone application technology, delivering content directly from a sheriff to smartphone users. Appriss offers more than 2,800 sheriffs' offices that use its VINE program a free smartphone...

Perpetrators of elder abuse were often related to the victims WASHINGTON, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A report released today by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) found that half of violent victimizations of persons age 65 or older involved serious violence, such as murder, rape, sexual assault, robbery and aggravated assault, based on data from crimes known to Michigan law enforcement from 2005 to 2009. A family member was identified as the...

WASHINGTON, June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Office of Justice Programs' National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has released a final report demonstrating that a statistical forecasting model may help probation departments predict which offenders are most likely to reoffend. Researchers from the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania collaborated with the Philadelphia Adult Probation and Parole Department in the demonstration project. The...

Length of Stay for Drug and Violent Crimes Grows at Nearly Same Rate WASHINGTON, June 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Prisoners released in 2009 served an average of nine additional months in custody, or 36 percent longer, than offenders released in 1990, according to a report released today by the Pew Center on the States' Public Safety Performance Project. The study found that for offenders released from their original sentence in 2009 alone, the additional time behind...

Michael Harper for RedOrbit.com When someone is caught, charged and prosecuted as a sex offender, they lose a great many rights they once had. Depending on the state, they have to register themselves as an offender, alert their neighbors and even keep a safe distance from any public place where children congregate. It’s likely a majority of Americans feel that these restrictions are warranted and even wise, but now some sex offenders are fighting against rulings that ban them from using...

AlertID, a free online and mobile service for members and public safety officials, now provides universal access to and alerts from state sex offender database (“SOD”) information for more than 112 million people or more than 35 percent of the US population. Las Vegas, Nevada (PRWEB) May 30, 2012 AlertID, a free online and mobile service for members and public safety officials, now provides universal access to and alerts from state sex offender database (“SOD”) information for...