Corrections.Capital Punishment 2000 presents statistics on a number of topics related to capital punishment, such as the number of prisoners under the death sentence as of December 31, 2000, and the number of persons executed in 2000. Tables in this annual Bureau of Justice Statistics Noun 1. Bureau of Justice Statistics - the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers BJS (BJS Noun 1. BJS - the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers Bureau of Justice Statistics ) bulletin depict data on capital offenses by state and federal death penalty laws, methods of execution, offender demographics (e.g., sex, race, education, marital status), and time between imposition of death sentence and execution. Additionally, the bulletin summarizes the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during 2000, provides preliminary data on executions in 2001, and presents historical tables on executions since 1930 and death sentencing since 1973. This 16-page BJS bulletin (NCJ NCJ National Criminal Justice NCJ National Contest Journal NCJ New Columbia Joist Co. 190598) is available electronically at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cp00-htm or contact the National Criminal Justice Reference Service The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a program that disseminates publications from the United States Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) agencies, as well as the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Office on Violence Against at 800-851-3420. |
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