• Criminal justice characteristics
• Public opinion
• Crime, victims
• Arrests, seizures
• Courts, prosecution, sentencing
• Parole, jails, prisons, death penalty

Did you know:

A recently released report shows a marked 39% decrease in firearm homicide over the period 1993-2011, mirroring the overall decline in violent crime.

However, the prevalence of firearm use in homicides has remained level at approximately 67% over same time period; likewise, the prevalence of firarms used in killing of police officers has remained, on average, above 90% for the same period; and the proportion of workplace homicides involving firearms has remained steadily above 78% since 2003.

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Trends:

Background checks • Crime rates • Deportations • Executions •
Drug arrests • Jail inmates • Murder weapons • Prisoners •
Public corruption • U.S. correctional population

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Focus on:   Terrorism

•	Beliefs about future acts of terrorism
•	Beliefs that there will soon be another terrorist attack in the U.S.
•	Confidence in government to protect citizens
•	Civil liberties vs. curbing terrorism
•	Fear that self or someone in family will become a victim of terrorism
•	U.S. citizen casualties resulting from international terrorism
•	More tables

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