Goldmine of Information

WEEAPUB (WEEAPUB@edc.org)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:48:58 -0400


A goldmine of information on violent crime in the USA is:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm

(slow to load but great)
is the USA Dept of Justice information site

You get such pearls as this:
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Bureau of Justice Statistics

Sex Offenses and Offenders:
An Analysis of Data on Rape
and Sexual Assault

By Lawrence A. Greenfeld
BJS Statistician

February 1997, NCJ-163392

(revised 2/7/97)

The full text of this report is available through:
* The BJS Clearinghouse, 1-800-732-3277
* on the Internet at: //www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
* on the BJS gopher:
gopher://www.ojp.usdoj.gov:70/11/bjs
* on the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Electronic
Bulletin Board (set at 8-N-1, call 301-738-8895, select BJS).

* * *

Jan M. Chaiken, Ph.D.
Director

This report was written by Lawrence A. Greenfeld, Deputy
Director, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Deborah Dworanczyk
assisted with verification. Tom Hester and Yvonne Boston edited
and produced the report, assisted by Jayne Robinson and
Priscilla Middleton. Marilyn Marbrook supervised publication.

Data analyzed for this report can be obtained from the National
Archive of Criminal Justice Data, Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48106
(800-999-0690).

An electronic version of this report and the data analyzed in it
can be found on the Internet
at--
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

Forwarded from SASH-L
Susan Carter
edequity-admin@mail.edc.org


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