Crimes of Violence Data Dashboard

The Crime of Violence (COV) Dashboard provides key characteristics for guidelines-eligible COV sentenced in Maryland circuit courts in fiscal years 2022 through 2025. Data is updated annually.

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

1. Overall (New in 2026): This tab provides the number of sentencing events, including COV, by circuit.
2. Demographics: This tab provides the race, gender, age, and (New in 2026) type of legal representation for guidelines-individuals sentenced for COV.
3. Offender Score  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.
4. Offense Score: This tab provides the mean and median offense score, seriousness category, victim injury, weapon presence, and special victim vulnerability for guidelines-sentenced COV.
5. Disposition Type: This tab provides the disposition type for guidelines sentencing events involving COV.
6. Guidelines Compliance: This tab provides the sentencing guidelines compliance rates for guidelines sentencing events involving COV.
7. 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.
8. Crimes of Violence-Offenses (New in 2026): This tab provides a count of each COV.
9. 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 sentence type and the mean total and non-suspended sentences for COVs. 
10. Life-Eligible COV (New in 2026): This tab provides the number of life-eligible COVs sentenced in Maryland circuit courts, by offense and circuit.  
11. 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 sentence type and the mean total and non-suspended sentences for life-eligible COV.
12. 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.
13. Definitions: This tab provides definitions for terms used throughout the Dashboard.

This dashboard presents information regarding Maryland sentencing guidelines data for COVs sentenced in Maryland circuit courts.

Filters
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