Image: U.S. incarceration rates 1925 onwards

Description: A graph made in excel 2007 showing the incarceration rate per 100,000 population in the United States. It shows the female and male rate, as well as their average. The graph depicts under the rate (per 100,000 resident population in each group) of sentenced prisoners under jurisdiction of State and Federal correctional authorities from 1925 through 2014. It does not include jail inmates. 2003-2013 data from Bureau of Justice (Prisoners in 2013, p13t03.csv and p13t05.csv)
Title: U.S. incarceration rates 1925 onwards
Credit: I, Smallman12q (talk), created the graph from the data available at http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/glance/tables/incrttab.cfm for the 2003 - 2008 incarceration rate. I used Table 6.28 on page 500 from the "Sourcebook of criminal justice statistics 2003" http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/section6.pdf for the rate by sex (gender) for 1925-2008. The sources for that table are as follows: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners1925-81, Bulletin NCJ-85861, p. 2; Prisoners in 1998, Bulletin NCJ 175687, p. 3,Table 3 and p. 5, Table 6; 2000, Bulletin NCJ 188207, p. 5, Table 6; 2001, BulletinNCJ 195189, p. 5 and p. 6, Table 7; 2002, Bulletin NCJ 200248, p. 4 and p. 5, Table5; 2003, Bulletin NCJ 205335, p. 4 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice);and U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Correctional Populationsin the United States, 1994, NCJ-160091, Tables 1.8 and 1.9; 1997, NCJ177613, Tables 1.8 and 1.9 (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice).
Author: Smallman12q (talk)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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