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2024 Annual Report: Our Impact
Despite the deep polarization afflicting our nation, the Council surged forward in 2024 with its mission to use data and evidence to bridge partisan and ideological divides and advance safety and justice for all.

Check out highlights of CCJ’s initiatives and wide-ranging impacts.
Read the Report
From Confinement to Community: Supporting Successful Veteran Reentry and Employment
In its third set of recommendations, the Veterans Justice Commission asks Congress to reverse a ban on VA-provided healthcare for incarcerated veterans and urges government agencies and the business community to prioritize the hiring of “second chance veterans.”
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Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Mid-Year 2024 Update
Homicide and most other violent crimes have dropped to or slightly below levels seen before the onset of the COVID pandemic and nationwide protests that followed the killing of George Floyd. Mid-year 2024 analyses also show declines for 11 of 12 crime types compared to the first half of 2023.
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Meet the Women's Justice Commission
CCJ’s newest initiative is the national, nonpartisan Women’s Justice Commission, led by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The diverse panel is examining the unique challenges facing women in the justice system and developing recommendations for evidence-based reforms to advance safety, health, and justice.
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Better Crime Data, Better Crime Policy
CCJ’s Crime Trends Working Group reached consensus on recommendations to strengthen the nation’s crime data infrastructure and better equip policymakers with timely, accurate, and usable data essential to address community violence and other crime.
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Pushing Toward Parity
Advancing our work on racial disparities, this comprehensive package assesses the impact of sentencing reforms on disparity trends in 12 states, examines imprisonment trends among female populations, and explores challenges in the measurement of Hispanic disparities.
Explore the Research
First Step Act: An Early Analysis of Recidivism
This analysis estimates recidivism rates among individuals released from federal prison prior to the FSA who had similar risk profiles and were tracked for similar periods of time as those released under the Act.
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DOJ Adopts CCJ Violence Reduction Framework
The new U.S. Justice Department Violent Crime Reduction Roadmap urges state and local governments to follow the 10 Essential Actions strategy developed by CCJ’s Violent Crime Working Group.
Explore the 10 Essential Actions
How big is the footprint of the criminal justice system, and how has it changed over time?
This new resource is a one-stop shop tracing decades-long changes in crime and victimization, arrests, incarceration, and community supervision.
Check out the footprint
Building Common Ground
Centering Justice is a collaborative project engaging a diverse range of the nation’s top thinkers and doers in an ongoing, ideologically vibrant conversation about criminal justice policy.
Learn More
2024 Annual Report: Our Impact
Despite the deep polarization afflicting our nation, the Council surged forward in 2024 with its mission to use data and evidence to bridge partisan and ideological divides and advance safety and justice for all.

Check out highlights of CCJ’s initiatives and wide-ranging impacts.
Read the report
From Confinement to Community: Supporting Successful Veteran Reentry and Employment
In its third set of recommendations, the Veterans Justice Commission asks Congress to reverse a ban on VA-provided healthcare for incarcerated veterans and urges government agencies and the business community to prioritize the hiring of “second chance veterans.”
Read the report
Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Mid-Year 2024 Update
Homicide and most other violent crimes have dropped to or slightly below levels seen before the onset of the COVID pandemic and nationwide protests that followed the killing of George Floyd. Mid-year 2024 analyses also show declines for 11 of 12 crime types compared to the first half of 2023.
Read the report
Meet the Women's Justice Commission
CCJ’s newest initiative is the national, nonpartisan Women’s Justice Commission, led by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The diverse panel is examining the unique challenges facing women in the justice system and developing recommendations for evidence-based reforms to advance safety, health, and justice.
Learn More
Better Crime Data, Better Crime Policy
CCJ’s Crime Trends Working Group reached consensus on recommendations to strengthen the nation’s crime data infrastructure and better equip policymakers with timely, accurate, and usable data essential to address community violence and other crime.
Read the Report
Pushing Toward Parity
Advancing our work on racial disparities, this comprehensive package assesses the impact of sentencing reforms on disparity trends in 12 states, examines imprisonment trends among female populations, and explores challenges in the measurement of Hispanic disparities.
Explore the Research
First Step Act: An Early Analysis of Recidivism
This analysis estimates recidivism rates among individuals released from federal prison prior to the FSA who had similar risk profiles and were tracked for similar periods of time as those released under the Act.
Read the Report
DOJ Adopts CCJ Violence Reduction Framework
The new U.S. Justice Department Violent Crime Reduction Roadmap urges state and local governments to follow the 10 Essential Actions strategy developed by CCJ’s Violent Crime Working Group.
Explore the 10 Essential Actions
How big is the footprint of the criminal justice system, and how has it changed over time?
This new resource is a one-stop shop tracing decades-long changes in crime and victimization, arrests, incarceration, and community supervision.
Check out the footprint
Building Common Ground
Centering Justice is a collaborative project engaging a diverse range of the nation’s top thinkers and doers in an ongoing, ideologically vibrant conversation about criminal justice policy.
Learn More

Grounding Criminal Justice Policy in Facts and Evidence

Upclose Spotlight

“Our staff is our most valuable asset, and they have very difficult jobs ... We want our staff to feel valued, have the tools to be successful through training and professional development, and have pathways for their careers.”
Beth Skinner - Director, Iowa Department of Corrections
Beth SkinnerDirector, Iowa Department of Corrections
“The criminal justice system is the one system that has escaped accountability. [There is] very little transparency, and we’ve extended power to those who work in the criminal justice system without that accountability”
Brett Tolman - Founder/Attorney & Chair of the White Collar, Corporate Compliance, and Government Investigations Section, Tolman Group
Brett TolmanExecutive Director, Right On Crime
“When the very people [who] we are called to serve don’t see equity and fairness in our service, our work is literally being done in vain. We have to … create a safe space for collectively reimagining our approach to justice issues.”
Leslie Cooper - Director, Pretrial Services Agency, District of Columbia
Leslie CooperDirector, Pretrial Services Agency, District of Columbia
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UpClose With Jamila Hodge
UpClose With Jamila Hodge

This month’s spotlighted member is Jamila Hodge, executive director of Equal Justice USA. In her interview, Hodge discusses how the criminal justice field addresses violent crime and the importance of identifying solutions that address the underlying drivers of violence.

Trends in Carjacking: What You Need to Know

This analysis examines carjacking trends from 2018-2023 and compares them with trends for non-carjacking robbery and motor vehicle theft. It also explores offense characteristics for carjacking, including the use of firearms as well as victimization and case clearance rates.
Can Suicide be Predicted for Justice-Involved Veterans?

Military veterans have more than twice the risk of suicide death as non-veterans. This brief examines a federal program designed to identify veterans with the highest suicide risk in order to provide enhanced outreach and support. It finds that the prediction model had low accuracy for identifying veterans who died by suicide.
Between the Aisles: A Closer Look at Shoplifting Trends

Examining data for the nation’s three largest cities through fall of 2024, this report finds that shoplifting levels remain higher than pre-pandemic rates. It also highlights two conflicting sources of federal data on the crime.

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