The Bureau of Justice Statistics said the number rose to 6,288,600, from 6,124,200 in 1998.

In 2005, the federal government spent nearly $20 billion on police protection (source: Bureau of Justice Statistics).

The Bureau of Justice Statistics study reported that women were eight times more likely to be injured by an intimate than men.

The data come primarily from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov).

The department was only 9 percent black in 1983, a study for the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics found.

The report was compiled by the Bureau of Justice Statistics as an update to a 1982 study on the same subject.

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the rate of family violence in this country has dropped by more than half since 1993.

The study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics was released Thursday.

Bureau of Justice statistics indicate that 70 percent of victims of homicide by an intimate are women.

This group includes the 16 percent of the incarcerated who, according to Department of Justice statistics, suffer from major mental illness.