Crimes of Violence Data Dashboard

The Crime of Violence (COV) Dashboard is provided in fulfillment of Correctional Services Article (CS), § 6-209.

This dashboard provides key characteristics for guidelines-eligible COV sentenced in Maryland circuit courts in fiscal years 2022 through 2024. Summaries of these figures are provided in the MSCCSP’s Annual Report for 2022 through 2024, respectively. Data will be updated annually.

The data for this dashboard come from sentencing guidelines worksheets submitted by the State's circuit courts. The dashboard is divided into ten tabs. The first eight tabs may be filtered by various variables, including judicial circuit and offense.

1. Demographics: This tab provides the number of sentencing events involving COV, by circuit, and the race, gender, and age, of guidelines-sentenced individuals convicted of COV.
2. Offender Score (New in 2025): This tab provides the mean and median offender score, prior adult criminal record score, involvement in the criminal justice system at the time of the instant offense, and prior adult probation/parole violations for guidelines-sentenced individuals convicted of COV.
3. Offense Score (New in 2025): This tab provides the mean and median offense score, seriousness category, victim injury, weapon presence, and special victim vulnerability for guidelines-sentenced COV.
4. Guidelines Compliance: This tab provides the sentencing guidelines compliance rates for guidelines sentencing events involving COV.
5. Disposition Type: This tab provides the disposition type for guidelines sentencing events involving COV.
6. Departure Reasons: This tab provides a count of the most cited reasons for departures below and above the sentencing guidelines in sentencing events involving COV.
7. Mean Sentences (Non-Life Eligible): This tab is limited to COV for which the statutory maximum penalty is not life (i.e., non-life eligible offenses). This tab provides the number of guidelines-eligible COV sentenced in Maryland circuit courts, by offense and circuit. Additionally, this tab provides the mean total and guidelines-applicable sentences for COV, as well as the mean percent of the total sentence suspended for sentences involving some amount of suspended time.
8. Mean Sentences (Life-Eligible Offenses): This tab is limited to offenses that carry a statutory maximum penalty of life (i.e., life-eligible offenses). This tab provides the number of life-eligible COV sentenced in Maryland circuit courts, by offense and circuit. Additionally, this tab provides the type of sentence and the mean total and guidelines-applicable sentences for life-eligible COV, as well as the mean percent of the total sentence suspended for sentences involving some amount of suspended time.
9. COV Index: This tab provides a list of all COV defined pursuant to Criminal Law Article (CR), § 14-101, their sources, and their statutory maximum penalties, including any mandatory minimum penalty.
10. Definitions: This tab provides definitions for terms used throughout the Dashboard.

This dashboard presents information regarding Maryland sentencing guidelines data for crimes of violence sentenced in Maryland circuit courts, as required by the enactment of Chapter 141 (S.B. 763), Acts of 2022.

**This dashboard defaults to include data from all fiscal years. To limit the data to a select fiscal year, use the Fiscal Year filter on the left-hand side of the dashboard**

Filters
Selecting a filter will filter the entire dashboard. This function provides information by the filter selected. You can also select multiple filters for a further breakdown of the data.

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