Crime Data, Research, and Policy

• Administration of Justice Reseach Guide  Brought to you by George Mason University, this site has links to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service's Abstracts Database and other valuable, free resources.
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• CJ Today  Textbook used for Criminal Justice 101. This interactive site is complete with quizes and review questions.
• Crime & Justice Electronic Data Abstracts  Compressed data files allow you to sort Bureau of Justice crime data in a number of ways, including by state, selected time span. It requires you to have unzip software on your computer to access.
• Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design  Maintained by the National Crime Prevention Council, this site discusses how to create safer neighborhoods and cities by the examining the creation of space, its use and safety.
• Crime Statistics: a Tutorial  How to locate the data, and how to assess its validity. With an excellent set of links to crime data at federal, state, local, or international level.
• Domestic Violence Information
• Drug Abuse Statistics  Official information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
• DrugText  International database of laws, news, court decisions, documents regarding drug policy.
• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin  Important monthly journal.
• Fight Crime: Invest in kids  National anti-crime organization led by police chiefs, prosecutors, and crime survivors.
• Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture  Available full text, 1993-present.
• Justice Information Center  Text files in Acrobat or ASCII on gangs, drugs, boot camps, community policing, more.
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data  Over 500 downloadable data sets with abstracts, as well as links to criminal justice issues.
• Safety and Security Links  Brought to you by the police notebook with information on drug abuse, crime prevention, personal safety, etc.
• Sentencing Project  Independent factual analysis of sentencing patterns and outcomes.
• Western Criminology Review  An online Criminal Justice Journal Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.
• Uniform Crime Reports, 1998 Preliminary Release  Adobe PDF format. Final figures available in the fall of 1999.

• The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics  Data about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States presented in over 600 tables from more than 100 sources.
  
  

  Criminal Investigation

• Cybercrime, Infowar and Infosecurity
• Computer Crime Research Resources  Includes state statutes, US Code, court cases, and articles from journals and newspapers.
• Copnet  Set of links to all cop-related issues and concerns.
• Crime Scene Evidence File
• FBI's Violent Crime Initiatives  June 1998 report
• Forensic Science: an Introduction  Includes sections on firearms identification, forensic psychiatry, fingerprinting, DNA analysis, forensic photography, and crime scene processing. Diagrams accompany the text and a suggested reading list is provided. Authored by a professional forensic investigator.
• Forensic Science on WWW

• Trial and Error --Chicago Tribune  This major investigative series from the Tribune documents hundreds of homicide cases where innocent people were sent to jail, some to Death Row, because of the "egregious misconduct" of prosecutors, usually in the form of suppressing evidence or using evidence that they knew to be false.
  

  Criminal Law

• American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section
• Anatomy of a Murder  A Trip Through Our Nation's Legal Justice System.
• American Civil Liberties Union  Foremost defender of the Bill of Rights, including rights against self-incrimination, illegal search and seizure, and cruel and unusual punishment.
• Court House  From attorney Brian Pierce, a nice topical collection of links on environmental law, alternative dispute resolution, human rights, etc., as well as full texts of documents, court decisions, and more.
• Criminal Justice Page  Courtesy of Prof. Cecil Greek, generally considered THE starting point for criminal justice.
• Criminal Law Links
• Critical Criminology File Links to crime statistics, info on prisons, death penalty, and more
• Federal Rules of Evidence, Searchable
• Financial Crimes Enforcement Network  Includes data on money laundering, news releases, info on how to follow the money trail.
• Forensic Psychiatry   Maintained by the American Academy of Psychiatry and the law.
• Interlaw's 'Lectric Library  Includes a legal dictionary, reference desk, text files of court cases, laws, articles..
• Internet Law Library on Criminal Justice and Prisons  Laws and court cases from all jurisdictions.
• State Laws on Obscenity, Child Pornography and Harassment  This site has a chart on state laws regarding obscenity, child pornography and harassment and some legal commentary on possible applications to the internet.

• United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network  Global crime prevention and criminal justice information network. Created in an effort to centralize the input from nongovernmental organizations and scientific institutions.
  

  Juvenile Justice

• Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice  Progressive policy institute that develops alternatives to incarceration for young offenders.
• The Coroner's Report: INFORMATION AND RESOURCES ON GANG INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION  From Steve Nawojczyk, advisor to the Arkansas Attorney General's Youth Gang Task Force. Includes an overview of gang dynamics and gang graffiti, a parents' resource guide, a recommended reading and viewing list, and recommended links.
• Juvenile Crime  Links, readings, and full text documents and laws, prepared by the Government Documents Library of the University of Kansas for the 1996-97 high school debate topic on juvenile crime.
• Juvenile Justice Index from Cornell Law Library
• National Youth Gang Center  "The Center assists state and local jurisdictions in the collection, analysis, and exchange of information on gang-related demographics, legislation, literature, research, and promising program strategies."

• Substance Abuse and Gun Violence  Public policy issues and legislative briefs from Join Together, a national resource center for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence. Of notable interest are the Community Prevention Programs. 

  Organizations and Institutes

• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence  Includes a literature database.
• FBI Home Page
• Higher Education Center Against Violence and Abuse
• International Association of Women Police
• InterPol  An introduction to what it is, how it works, and the kinds of research it conducts. Includes an FAQ file.
• Jobs for Police  National police and law enforcement job listings updated daily, searchable by state.
• Legal Information Institute at Cornell  Arranged by topic
• Law enforcement careers  This site offers employment, testing and interviewing guides for federal and state police careers.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service

• Office of International Criminal Justice  News updates on crime issues worldwide.
  

  Police Links

• National Center for Community Policing  Contains full texts of the Community Policing Series.
• Police Complaint Center  Assistance to victims of police brutality, but also links to training in non-abusive methods for police officers.
• Police Officers' Internet Directory  Complete set of links to employment, training events, associations, investigation, special ops, and more, regularly updated. A Lycos top 5% of the net.
• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States  Report from Human Rights Watch on police practices in 14 American cities.
• State Police Information Center  Official contact information and job requirements for careers with all 50 state police agencies and highway patrols.
• Testimony on Police Violence, Nation-Wide

• Violence Against Women Office, Department of Justice
  

  Prisons and Prisoners

• AIDS and HIV Infection in Prisoners  Detailed data on incidence, testing, transmission, policies, confidentiality, and more from the AIDS Knowledge Base.
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Index: Prison Links  Law, correctional facilities, prisoners' issues, prison newspapers and more.
• Internet Law Library: Sentencing and Parole  Laws and court cases from all jurisdictions.
• Justice Net Prison Issues Net  Primarily prisoners' rights issues, with links and extensive file of articles.
• Office of Correctional Education  Programs relating to education and training inside prison.
• Private Prisons  Collection of research, statistics, and a bibliography.
  

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