Dangers that teens and kids face: A look at the data
What the data show on bullying, drug and alcohol use, depression, violence and other common sources of parental concern.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
What the data show on bullying, drug and alcohol use, depression, violence and other common sources of parental concern.
Of the 4,705 reported fire incidents at houses of worship between 1996 and 2015, 2,378, or 51%, have been ruled intentional.
Surveys have found a shift in gun policy attitudes over time. Here’s a look at how public opinion on the subject is measured.
Voters in 41 states and the District of Columbia will get to weigh in on policy initiatives on state ballots in the November 2014 election. There are 147 statewide ballot measures facing voters this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (Underhill, 2014). Among the policy issues up for a vote are measures […]
A record 25.2 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2014 midterms, or 11% of eligible voters nationwide. But in many states with close races this year, Latinos make up a smaller share of eligible voters.
Americans with young children in their home are just as likely as other adults to have a gun in their household.
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
Offense categories defined in this report were created by collapsing the primary offense categories utilized by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The Commission determines an offender’s primary offense category by examining the offense conviction with the highest statutory maximum. Below is the description of the primary offense categories used in the analyses for this report. Drugs […]
The number of convictions in federal courts nearly doubled over the past two decades, from 36,564 to a record 77,506 in 2011, then falling to 75,867 in 2012.[11. numoffset=”11″ These totals are only of cases for which the offense of conviction is known. In 1992, there were 1,694 cases with missing information on the offense […]
A daily roundup of fresh data from scholars, governments, think tanks, pollsters and other social science researchers.
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