BJS and the FY2013 and FY2014 Budget Implications

1. BJS and the FY2013 and FY2014 Budget Implications Presented by William J. Sabol, Ph.D., Acting Director June 7, 2013 BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

2. BJS authority spans: • Collecting and analyzing statistical data on all aspects of federal, state, and local criminal justice systems (see “sequence of events” flow chart) and related aspects of the civil justice system; • Collecting and analyzing statistical data on statutorily-identified topics including crimes against the elderly, juvenile delinquency, criminal offenders and juvenile delinquents. • Assisting state, local, and tribal governments in gathering and analyzing justice statistics • Disseminating high-value information and statistics to inform policy makers, researchers, criminal justice practitioners, and the general public • Maintaining an ongoing program of research and develop to recommend national standards for statistics, ensure their reliability, and fulfill statutory mission. BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

3. BJS statistical collections • 46 separate statistical collections • 16 annual • 30 periodic • Organized around substantive areas • Victimization (NCVS ~ 75% of total “core” BJS budget) • Law Enforcement • Prosecution and Adjudication • Corrections • Recidivism, Reentry and Special Projects • Criminal Justice Data Improvement Programs • Mandates: • Prison Rape Elimination Act Statistics (funded by transfers into BJS) • Tribal Law and Order Act BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

4. Sequence of Events in the Criminal Justice System www.BJS.gov

5. BJS budget: Three elements • Criminal Justice Statistics Program (CJSP) • NCVS • NCVS Core • NCVS Redesign • Non-NCVS CJSP • State & Local Law Enforcement Assistance • NCHIP • NICS • Research, Evaluation, and Statistics Set Aside (2% of non-research and statistics grant funds in OJP) BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

6. 2% Research & Statistics Set Aside • At the discretion of the Attorney General,…, up to 2 percent of funds made available for grant or reimbursement programs under such headings, except for amounts appropriated specifically for research, evaluation, or statistical programs administered by the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, shall be transferred to and merged with funds provided to the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, to be used by them for research, evaluation or statistical purposes, without regard to authorizations for such grant or reimbursement programs; … BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

7. FY 2014 President’s Budget Request and FY2011-FY2013 Enacted ($000s) BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

8. Use of the 2% RESS Set Aside BJS & NIJ agreed upon allocation: 1/3 BJS; 1/3 NIJ; 1/3 joint programs; • Building a system of incident level law enforcement administrative records (NCS-X). • Crime Indicators Working Group and subnational estimation of crime and victimization. • Victim services organizations, coverage of non-household populations in NCVS, victim-offender overlap. • Continuous data collection for law enforcement management and administration statistics. • White collar crime statistics. • Joint with NIJ: • Center for the Collection and Analysis of Administrative Data on Crime, Recidivism and Re-entry. • Metropolitan Crime Consortia: Using Administrative Data to Measure, Prevent, and Reduce Crime. BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

9. FY2013 Impacts • Use of set aside to fund core CJSP programs funded (e.g., ARD, DCRP, State Justice Agencies & Tribal Lands, Prosecutors Survey, FJSP, NCRP, P&P, etc.) • R&D funding (e.g., NCS-X, criminal history records conversion, crosswalk, etc.) • Joint BJS-NIJ projects scaled back and delayed • Hiring freeze (DOJ wide): • BJS staffing (on board) has fallen from 57 in 2010 to 43 in 2013 • 8 unfilled statistician positions (25 on board); 4 exceptions granted (1 on board; remaining 3 before the end of FY13) • Major surveys delayed (e.g., SILJ) BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

10. FY 2014 Priority Statistical Areas • Continue to improve BJS’ criminal victimization statistics derived from the NCVS; • Sub-national estimates • Enhancing data on the crimes of rape and sexual assault; • Continue exploration/use of administrative records data in police and correctional agencies; • Recidivism information • Arrests/booking statistics • Offenses known to the police (NCS-X) • Expand surveys of inmates of prisons and jails; • Inform the process of re-entry / reintegration • Maintain BJS’ core statistical programs in law enforcement, victimization, prosecution and adjudication, corrections, recidivism, and criminal justice data improvement programs; • Continue to improve the availability of justice statistics for Indian country; and • Continue to support the enhancement of criminal justice statistics available through state statistical analysis centers. BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

11. FY2014 Impacts • Assuming sequestration and set-aside: ~$45mn for programming; ~$9mn for non-NCVS core • Set aside funding to be used for core • Investment in NCS-X police administrative records impacted • Set aside is at the discretion of the AG (grant-making entities’ funding tapped); • Set aside eliminated • NCVS and weakened non-NCVS • Staffing: • Major surveys impacted (SILJ, victim-offender overlap) BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

12. Principal Federal Statistical Agencies:Budget and Staffing Levels, FY 2013 BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

13. FY 2014 NCHIP Increase • Description • Justification • Goals and Objectives BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov

14. Contact Information Bureau of Justice Statistics 810 7th Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20531 (202) 307-0765 William.Sabol@usdoj.gov BJSBureau of Justice Statistics www.BJS.gov