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Crime & Victimization in the U.S.

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) are the two largest and most comprehensive resources for information relating to crime and victimization in the United States. While the UCR...

Crime Trends

Criminal victimization trends provide useful insights by positioning annual data within a broader context. To estimate these trends, researchers rely on two national sources of crime data: the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) and...

Curriculum that “Works” Webinar

Curriculum that "Works" CMCA webinar moderated by Dr. Karen Swanson with panelists: Sarah Heaton, Marcus Baird, Erika Mariglia This webinar features 3 curriculums that are actively used by chaplains and ministry workers in jails and prisons and recommended for use in...

Data Collected Under the First Step Act, 2019

This report, the first required under the First Step Act of 2018, presents selected characteristics of federal prisoners and facility-level statistics, including— marital, veteran, citizenship, and English-speaking status education levels medical conditions...

Discipling in the Age of Biblical Illiteracy

What can you do to get people to dust off their Bibles? Only 20 percent of Americans say they’ve read the entire Bible at least once. And only 22 percent say they systematically read through a section of the Bible a little each day.  A third of Americans never read...

Educational Aftercare and Reintegration Toolkit

In 2005-2006, juvenile justice professionals in Pennsylvania’s67 counties were assessed to determine their current aftercarepractices. As a result of this assessment, this Toolkit waswritten in 2006 to address one of their main areas of concern:helping youth returning...