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

Did you know:

From 1930 through 2012, a total of 5,179 executions were carried out in the United States.

43 executions were carried out in the U.S. during 2012, continuing a downward trend that began in a decade ago.

In 1985 almost two-thirds of Americans(62%) believed that the death penalty was a deterrent to murder; in 2011 survey less than a third of the public (32%) continued to hold that belief.

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Trends:

Background checks • Crime rates • Deportations • Executions
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.
•	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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