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Criminal Justice
| 360degrees: Perspectives on the U.S. Criminal Justice System |
| Picture Projects and National Public Radio (NPR) present a unique collection of first-person stories from inmates, correctional officers, lawyers, judges, parole officers, parents, victims, and more on the real criminal justice system. Prisoners' interviews and audio diaries available with Quicktime4. Other exceptional features include a timeline (601 to present) exploring the creation of prisons as know them today and suggestions for integrating this site into academic curriculums. |
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| Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice |
| This Center is a private non-profit organization with a self-stated mission to "reduce reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems." Solid policy research reports and publications available online including New York State of Mind?: Higher Education vs. Prison Funding in the Empire State, 1988-1998. Useful links to Internet sources for juvenile and criminal justice information as well. |
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| CrimDoc (Criminology Library Grey Literature) |
| Comprises the "grey literature" from the field of Criminology, as well as other, related areas of specialization, including criminal justice, penology and corrections, juvenile deliquency/young offenders, policing and law enforcement, and private policing. Housed in the Univ. of Toronto Centre of Criminology Library, this file is composed of institute, association, and government publications, as well as unpublished papers, working papers, research reports, etc. |
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| CrimeBlog |
| Website for crime-related news stories and member-posted commentary. Formerly APB Online. |
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| Jerry Lee Center of Criminology |
| The mission of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania is to produce major discoveries about the causes and prevention of crime. The site features abstracts and papers from the research of the faculty, and staff of the Center. |
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| Juvenile Justice Center |
| Sponsored by the American Bar Association, the goal of the Juvenile Justice Center is to advance the juvenile defense bar through training, technical assistance, information dissemination and advocacy. Includes access to full text reports on topics including Juvenile Death Penalty and Girls in the Juvenile Justice System. |
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| Law Enforcement News |
| Provides coverage of current topics of interest to the law enforcement community. A publication of John Jay College. |
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| National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) |
| NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. Included on the website are extensive publications on Corrections, Courts, Crime, Crime Prevention, Drugs, the Justice System, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, and Victims. |
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| National Criminal Justice Reference System: Corrections |
| The NCJRS provides a wealth of online publications (sorted by topic or date) and links to a multitude of Internet resources (by topic subdivisions). A must-see site for the state of corrections in the United States. |
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| Organized Crime and Corruption Bibliographic Database |
| Compiled by the Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption of York University, Toronto, indexes books, newspaper articles, magazines and journals. |
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| Restorative Justice Database |
| Created and maintained by the University of Toronto Centre of Criminology Library, this database includes citations to academic and practitioner literature from 1970 to the present. It is updated and maintained on a regular basis and presently includes more than 1,400 records. |
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| September 11, 2001 -- Sources of Information |
| The John Jay College librarians have created a page of Sources of Information Relating to the Disaster of September 11, 2001. |
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| VictimLaw |
| Database about victims rights and protections that includes Constitutional provisions, statutes, court rules, administrative code provisions, case summaries, and attorney general opinions. Also included are overviews of the justice system, and a glossary of legal terms. |
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| Workplace Violence |
| Workplace violence has emerged as an important safety and health issue in today's workplace. This website is maintained by the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA). |
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Criminal Justice - Metasites
| Cecil Greek's Criminal Justice Links |
| Probably the oldest and most comprehensive such site on the Net. |
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| Criminal Justice Cybrary |
| Dr. Frank Schmalleger's well-organized collection of nearly 12,000 Internet links, with a search engine. |
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| NCJRS Justice Information Center |
| A well-organized site of the U.S. Department of Justice with direct access to full-text government documents as well as links to other sites. Provides the full text of NIJ and other OJP and Office of National Drug Control Policy publications.
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| World Criminal Justice Library Network |
| The World Criminal Justice Library Network maintains an excellent set of links to web sites concerning Criminal Justice including a section on Statistical Resources. |
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Criminal Justice - International
| Australian Institute of Criminology |
| The Australian Institute of Criminology is the national focus for the study of crime and criminal justice in Australia and for the dissemination of criminal justice information. |
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| BOPCRIS |
| Search and browse information from British Official Publications over the period 1688-1995; some of the documents are available online in full text. |
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| Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) |
| The INL, and office of the U.S Department of State, advises the President, Secretary of State and other departments and agencies within the U.S. Government on the development of policies and programs to combat international narcotics and crime. |
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| Centre for Defence and International Security (CDISS) |
| An inter-disciplinary research center based in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University in the UK. CDISS exists to research, raise awareness and stimulate debate on a wide range of defense and security issues relevant to both the UK and the International Community.
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| CIA World Factbook |
| Extensive data about countries of the world with general sections on geography, people, govenment, economy, communications, transportation and military and a special section on the country's involvement in transnational issues. The web version of the CIA World Factbook is updated weekly. |
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| Country Studies |
| The Library of Congress' Country Studies handbooks have extensive background information, as well as information on criminal justice in countries around the world. |
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| David Willshire's Forensic Psychology & Psychiatry Links |
| David Willshire, an australian forensic psychologist, offers a wide variety of links to Internet sites dealing with forensic psychology and psychiatry. Brief definitions of the two fields are given along with useful links to online journals in the field. |
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| Foreign Governments |
| The official Web sites of the governments of other countries. Direct links are included for major governmental departments including statistical departments for some countries. The web links are maintained at Northwestern University. |
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| Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases |
| A guide from the New York University School of Law, Law Library. |
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| HEUNI |
| This web site for the European Institue for Crime Prevention and Control (an affiliate of the United Nations)provides studies of the criminal justice systems in specific European countries. Each study follows a specific structure so that comparisons between countries can be made easily. Statistics are included, but the statistics are only as current as the date of the report. |
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| Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission |
| Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission web site. From the Organization of American States. |
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| International Money Laundering Information Network |
| An organization sponsored by governmental bodies and financial institutions, includes research reports, bibliographies, country pages with full text of anti-money laundering legislation, and a page of links to international organizations and financial intelligence units. |
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| Interpol |
| The web site of Interpol reports on the activities of this international police organization which facilitates cross-border police cooperation to combat international crime and terrorism. |
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| Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) |
| LANIC is the web site for the University of Texas's Institute for Latin American Studies. Click on "Government" for topics such as Human Rights, Law and Justice, and Corruption. |
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| National Policing Improvement Agency (UK) |
| The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) provides a clearinghouse for information about research projects, education and technology that can enhance policing in the United Kingdom. The electronic version of The Digest is especially helpful for providing news about new and planned legislation and case law effecting policing in the UK> |
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| Official Documents of the United Nations |
| ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993, but including some that are older; also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. It does NOT contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information. |
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| Organization of American States |
| The web site of the Organization of American States includes documents concerning human rights, fighting drug abuse, corruption, etc. |
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| Trade and Environment Database (TED) |
| TED is a collection of over 700 case studies on international matters concerning trade: September 1992 to May 2007. The cases originally focused on environmental issues; but newer categories include economic consequences of social policy choices, such as culture, human rights, or other issues. This is a project at American University. |
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| Tuebingen Institute of Criminology |
| The Tuebingen Institute of Criminology has recently fully revised and updated its Criminology and Criminal Justice Link List with links to German, European, International, EU, and UN sources, including content services to many journals in the field. Headings are in German and English. |
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| United Nations |
| Site available in English, French, Russian, and Spanish versions. The home page has a search option on the lower right. Advanced keyword searching options allow for the retrieval of text and multimedia publications from the UN and its many related organizations. Both official and unofficial informational material can be found. |
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| United Nations - Documentation Centre |
| Documentation Center provides links to fulltext for many documents from the General Assembly (floor debates), Security Council (resolutions), Economic and Social Council (reports), Secretariat (annual reports), International Court of Justice, and Trusteeship Council. |
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| United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |
| Site of UN funded programs focused on drugs, trafficking in human beings, corruption, terrorism and organized crime. Links to some full text documents on the issues, including their annual World Drug Report. |
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| World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems |
| Developed under BJS grants, this site provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of 45 countries around the world. The original 42 descriptions were completed in 1993. The latest 5 entries including two updated country profiles were prepared in 2002. |
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Criminal Justice - Statistics
| Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| The BJS publishes most of its reports on its WWW pages as well as in print. Statistics are maintained in the areas of law enforcement, prosecution, courts and sentencing, corrections (including capital punishment), and expenditure and employment. |
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| Campus Security Data Cutting Tool |
| Reported statistics on campus crimes at over 6000 postsecondary education institutions in the United States. From the US Office of Postsecondary Education.
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| Civilian Complaint Review Board |
| The CCRB has a web page with an online complaint form and links to their status reports and monthly statistical reports. |
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| College and Universities Crime Statisics |
| Provides campus crime statistics for colleges and universities across the United States, including searches of the Dept. of Education database, and links to the FBI Uniform Crime Reports statistics for over 400 colleges. |
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| Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJSRC) |
| The FJSRC maintains the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database, which contains information about suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system. |
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| Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) |
| The FRED database contains economic data including interest rates, producer price indexes, GDP, consumer price indices, and many other number series reflecting the U.S. economy. |
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| Fedstats |
| The "gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies," allows you to browse or search for thousands of statistical tables maintained by the U.S. government. |
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| National Archive of Criminal Justice Data |
| Holds over 550 data collections relating to criminal justice. This website provides browsing and downloading access to most of this data and documentation, as well as an on-line Data Analysis System for some of the studies. |
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| New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services |
| Included on the Division's Web site are criminal justice
statistics for New York state as well as a
Directory of New York State Criminal Justice Agencies.
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| NYPD Crime Statistics |
| New York City Police Department Crime Statistics are available citywide, by borough, or by precinct (pdf files). |
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| Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics |
| Updated regularly to reflect the latest U.S. government statistics. |
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| TRAC Immigration |
| Attempts to discover very detailed information from the U.S. government, check it for accuracy and completeness and then make it available in an understandable way; includes special reports from TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse) at Syracuse University, one-click access to the very latest monthly data on the criminal enforcement of the immigration laws, an extensive library of reports on immigration matters by the GAO, CRS and inspectors general; and a plain English glossary of frequently used words and acronyms common to the immigration world. |
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| U.S. Census Bureau |
| Comprehensive site for current and historical U.S. demographic data. Browse by topic or use American FactFinder or State & County Quick Facts to access data. Links to federal, state, and international statistical resources as well. |
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| Uniform Crime Reports |
| Uniform Crime Reports (Crime in the United States) --requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
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Criminal Justice - International Statistics
| International Centre for Prison Studies |
| Select the World Prison Brief option for statistics on prison systems and incarceration rates in over 200 countries. This web site is maintained by the School of Law at King's College of the University of London. Note the year and source for the collected data by looking at the profile for each country. |
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| International Justice Statistics |
| Links to statistical sources maintained by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. |
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| Nation Master |
| Specializes in ranking countries of the world on the basis of a specific statistic within broad statistical categories. For example within the category of crime there is a ranking of countries by number of jails per capita. The statistics are gathered from sources published by the UN, the CIA World Factbook, the World Bank and other authorative sources. Use the Encyclopedia link on the top right to see the statistics available by category. Caution: Since we are not a sponsor of the site, you will not be able to use the option for making your own graphs based on selected countries and categories.
If you click on the name of a country in a ranking list, you will be given a statistical profile of that country. However, statistical profiles in the CIA World Factbook are more current. |
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| United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime |
| Site of UN funded programs focused on drugs, trafficking in human beings, corruption, terrorism and organized crime. Links to some full text documents on the issues, including their annual World Drug Report. |
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| United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems |
| The major goal of the United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems is to collect data on the incidence of reported crime and the operations of criminal justice systems with a view to improving the analysis and dissemination of that information globally. |
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| World Criminal Justice Library Network |
| The World Criminal Justice Library Network maintains an excellent set of links to web sites concerning Criminal Justice including a section on Statistical Resources. |
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Criminal Justice - History
| 360degrees: Perspectives on the U.S. Criminal Justice System |
| Picture Projects and National Public Radio (NPR) present a unique collection of first-person stories from inmates, correctional officers, lawyers, judges, parole officers, parents, victims, and more on the real criminal justice system. Prisoners' interviews and audio diaries available with Quicktime4. Other exceptional features include a timeline (601 to present) exploring the creation of prisons as know them today and suggestions for integrating this site into academic curriculums. |
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| Criminal Justice History Resources |
| Extensive list of resources from Northeastern State University. |
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| Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library |
| Website with full text and images of more than 500 broadsides relating to public executions in 18th and 19th century Britain. |
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| Famous Trials |
| Prof. Doug Linder of the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School has put together information about famous trials in history from the trial of Socrates in 399 B.C. to the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995. Also included are the Nuremburg Trials, the trial of Charles Manson, the McMartin Preschool Trial, and the trial of LAPD Officers for the beating of Rodney King. Linder has included exerpts from transcripts, background information on the individuals involved and supplementary materials. |
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| GangRule.com |
| Biographies, historical events, and a searchable database related to the history of organized crime. |
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| Guide to Records of the New York State Department of Correctional Services |
| This guide serves as a link to finding aids of the records created by Correctional Services agencies in New York State. The records are held in the New York State Archives in Albany, N.Y. Included are lists of records by Correctional facility, including Sing-Sing. It is recommended that researchers call the New York State Archives to make a research appointment before visiting. |
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| History of Policing, Legal Institutions, Criminology, and Crime |
| This database provides easily accessible and systematic information about ongoing projects in the fields of the history of police, legal institutions, criminology, and crime. Its main purpose is to facilitate orientation and encourage collaboration in a quickly growing interdisciplinary field of historical research. |
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| Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930 |
| This rich site provides primary source access to a database with information on 11,000 homicides maintained by the Chicago Police Dept. Users can search the database by name, type of crime, date, etc. or browse descriptions of 25 of the more sensational homicides in Chicago, complete with links to newspaper articles, photographs, and court records. |
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| National Security Archive |
| An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act. |
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| New York City Police Museum |
| Official website of the museum. |
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| Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London |
| The Proceedings of the Old Bailey London can now be read and searched online. So far the accounts of 53,000 trials, from April 1674 to December 1799, are available in transcription and as page images. The site also includes historical background. |
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