Federal Justice Statistics Program Hate Crime Data
Since the early 1990s through its Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has collected administrative records detailing the processing of every matter/case through five components of the federal justice system: 1) U.S. Marshals Services, 2) Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, 3) Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, 4) U.S. Sentencing Commission and 5) the Federal Bureau of Prisons. To identify hate crimes using the FJSP data requires assessing a combination of agency offense codes and U.S. criminal code statute information. Needed information to identify hate crimes is not available for the stages of arrest and imprisonment, while necessary variables are available for the stages of prosecution, adjudication, and sentencing.