Thanks to Martha Tenney and Eve Glazier '23 for locating & organizing these resources!
Learn more about Eve's experience processing the Coalition for Women Prisoners (CWP) collection for the Barnard College Archives in Toward an Abolitionist Archival Practice.
See the general Urban Studies research guide for many more sources of quantitative sources.
If you need assistance organizing, analyzing, or visualizing data sets, please visit the Empirical Reasoning Center (ERC). The Empirical Reasoning Center (ERC) helps faculty, students, and alumnae engage critically with data - quantitative, qualitative and spatial.
Their website contains software tutorials and workshop tutorials. You can meet with staff of the ERC virtually by making an appointment or during walk-in hours.
See the general Urban Studies research guide for many more sources of quantitative sources.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is a federal agency under the Department of Justice; that collects and creates creates data, surveys, and reports about inmate populations, prisons, expenditures, deaths in custody, policing, victims of crime, and more. The BJS site is somewhat confusing. Specific series and data sets of interest for studying trends in populations of incarcerated people, policing, and crime over time include:
The Key Statistics page provides easy access to national trend data. You can also search over available data table files and other files. The BJS is the source of much of the data that is used in reports and visualizations from other sources mentioned in our library research guides.