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

Did you know:

As of 2010, just over half (53%) of State prisoners were incarcerated for a violent offense; a small increase from 2002 when violent offenders comprised 50% of the prison population.
In contrast, State prisoners serving time for drug offenses decreased over the same time period from 21% to 17%. (See same table.)

How many murders were known to police in your State?

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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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