US Sentencing Commission starts new series of “Crime Victims Fact Sheets”

I was pleased to see a number of new items on the US Sentencing Commission’s website this morning, including the announcement of new “Crime Victims Fact Sheets.”   The USSC website front page describes the new work as a new series that “gives readers basic facts about victims of particular categories of federal crime in an easy-to-read, two-page format.”  This detailed USSC webpage includes this overview and links/descriptions to the first two fact sheets in the series:

This Crime Victims series presents information collected and analyzed during a recent project in which the Commission reviewed court documents to identify victims in offenses for which a sentence was imposed in fiscal year 2023.

The Commission will release additional fact sheets on crime victims in drug offenses and sex offenses as well as on vulnerable victims and official victims, among others…. 

• Issue 1: Federal Offenses Involving Force or Threat Against the Person (Published August 18, 2025)
  • The first issue covers offenses involving force or threat against the person (including Homicide; Assault; Kidnapping, Abduction, or Unlawful Restraint; Air Piracy and Offenses Against Mass Transportation Systems; and Threatening or Harassing Communications, Hoaxes, Stalking, and Domestic Violence). Other such offenses are found under Chapter Two, Part B (Robbery, and Extortion by Force or Threat of Injury or Serious Damage). 
     
• Issue 2: Federal Economic Offenses (Published August 18, 2025)
  • The second issue covers economic offenses, which can be found in Chapter Two, Part B of the federal sentencing guidelines (Theft, Embezzlement, Receipt of Stolen Property, Property Destruction and Offenses Involving Fraud or Deceit; Burglary and Trespass; Blackmail and Similar Forms of Extortion; Commercial Bribery and Kickbacks; Counterfeiting and Infringement of Copyright or Trademark; and Motor Vehicle Identification Numbers).