The United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is a federal government

Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States is the national government of the constitutional republic of fifty states that is the United States of America. The federal government comprises three distinct branches of government: a legislative, an executive and a judiciary. These branches and...

 agency belonging to the U.S. Department of Justice

United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...

. Established on December 27, 1979, the bureau collects, analyzes and publishes data relating to crime in the United States

Crime in the United States

Crime statistics for the United States are published annually by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Uniform Crime Reports which represents crimes reported to the police...

. The agency publishes data regarding statistics gathered from the roughly fifty-thousand agencies that comprise the U.S. justice system on its Web site.
BJS, along with the National Institute of Justice

National Institute of Justice

The National Institute of Justice is the research, development and evaluation agency of the United States Department of Justice. NIJ, along with the Bureau of Justice Statistics , Bureau of Justice Assistance , Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention , Office for Victims of Crime ,...

 (NIJ), Bureau of Justice Assistance

Bureau of Justice Assistance

The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, within the United States Department of Justice.On Monday, December 13, 2010, President Barack Obama sent to the U.S. Senate the nomination of Denise Ellen O'Donnell, of New York, to be the Director of the Bureau, in...

 (BJA), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is an office of the United States Department of Justice and a component of the Office of Justice Programs....

 (OJJDP), Office for Victims of Crime

Office for Victims of Crime

The Office for Victims of Crime is a part of the Office of Justice Programs, within the U.S. Department of Justice.The OVC's mission is to provide aid and promote justice for crime victims....

 (OVC), and other program offices, comprise the Office of Justice Programs

Office of Justice Programs

The Office of Justice Programs is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that focuses on crime prevention through research and development, assistance to state and local law enforcement and criminal justice agencies through grants, and assistance to crime victims.The major bureaus...

 (OJP) branch of the Department of Justice.

Further reading

• Bessette, Joseph M. "The Injustice Department", The Weekly Standard
  The Weekly Standard
  The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year. Its founding publisher, News Corporation, debuted the title September 18, 1995. Currently edited by founder William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the Standard has been described as a "redoubt of...
  
  (Volume 011, Issue 05), October 17, 2005.
• Lichtblau, Eric. "Profiling Report Leads to a Demotion". The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  , August 24, 2005.