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- National Clearinghouse for Justice Information and Statistics
- A U.S. Department of Justice site that offers many datasets and associated codebooks for downloading as ASCII files, Acrobat files, or ordering paper copy by e-mail, phone or fax. They also make available their full-text reports on corrections, capital punishment, jail inmates, probation and parole.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Wide ranging publications and data tables related to drugs, juvenile crime, prisons, and victims of crime.
- Justice Information Center
- Summarizes new publications from NCJRS, many of which are available online in ASCII or Adobe PDF formats.
- NCJRS Abstracts Database
- Searchable database provides summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.
- Office of Justice Programs
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - updated as new data is released
- Currently, this site presents the 24th edition of Sourcebook, published in October 1997. Although the publication of Sourcebook is an annual event, its compilation is an ongoing process. As such, updates of tables and new data sources continually are received and prepared for presentation in the next edition. This site will be updated to reflect these new data as they will appear in the next edition, the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1997, which will be published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, in the summer of 1998.
- American Bar Association's "Facts About the American Criminal Justice System"
- in Adobe PDF format
- American Society of Criminology's Critical Criminology Page
- Prison information and statistics.
- Community Policing Consortium
- A partnership of five major organizations: International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), National Sheriffs Association (NSA), Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), and the Police Foundation. The Consortium is administered and funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan
- National Center for State Courts (NCSC)
- National Center for Women and Policing
- National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA)
- NCJA exists to foster the development of criminal justice systems in the states and units of local government that enhance public safety; that prevent and reduce the harmful effects of criminal behavior on individuals and communities; that adjudicate defendants and sanction offenders fairly and justly; and that use their resources effectively and efficiently.
- OICJ Online : The Office of International Criminal Justice
- The Office of International Criminal Justice was founded in 1984 as a center for excellence in education, research, development, and training at the University of Illinois at Chicago. OICJ's mission is to improve the administration of criminal and juvenile justice both at home and abroad by providing enhanced opportunities for communication and collaboration by both academics and practitioners.
- Rand Corporation
- Drug Policy Research Center at the Rand Corporation
- United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network - Statistics and Research Sources
- Violence Policy Center
- The Violence Policy Center (VPC) is a national educational foundation that is at working to reduce firearms violence in America. The Center works to increase public understanding of firearms violence as an expanding public health crisis of which crime is merely the most recognized aspect.
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- Community Policing Exchange
- Crime and Justice International : Worldwide Trends and News - published by The Office of International Criminal Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago
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- International Journal of Drug Testing
- Guide Lines : News from the U.S. Sentencing Commission
- Sheriff Times
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Periodical Resources (some resources may not be full-text)
Other Resources
- Cop Net
- An international collection of works by and for law enforcement officers.
- Community Policing for Law Enforcement Managers from the Illinois Criminal Justice Authority
- Court Web Sites
- Provides links to state court web sites, federal court related web stes, and international court web sites.
- Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
- Provides legal materials on particular areas of criminal justice, including: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Death Penalty, Juvenile Justice, and Prisons and Prisoners' Rights.
- CRISNET CJ Roster
- Provides links to the home pages of police departments and law enforcement agencies.
- Idea House: Crime and Gun Control
- Provides statistics, policy analysis and policy proposals; online via National Center for Policy Analysis.
- The Police Pages
- A reference list of law enforcement and criminal justice resources on the Internet.
- Vera Institute of Justice
- Working in collaboration with government, the Vera Institute designs and implements innovative programs that encourage just practices in public services and improve the quality of urban life.
- Violence Against Women in the United States
- Links to studies with statistics about violence against women, testimony from Congressional committee hearings, information on the Violence Against Women Act, and more.
- World Criminal Justice Library Network
- The World Criminal Justice Library Network enables you to access international library and criminal justice resources. Site is hosted by The School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University.
- Youth Gangs : Out of Control and Getting Worse
- by Robert L. Maginnis; article available online from the Family Research Council.
Legal Resources
- Commission on Domestic Violence
- The American Bar Association's newly created Commission on Domestic Violence researches model domestic violence programs across the country in an effort to understand why they work. This site contains a wide variety of links to law, legislation and issues related to domestic violence.
- FINDLAW : Internet Legal Resources
- Law Links : The Internet Legal Resource Center
- Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
- Links to searchable legal indexes on the World Wide Web.
- Supreme Court Decisions Search
Statistical Resources
- Bureau of Prisons
- Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts - Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Contains aggregated data from a wide variety of published sources that are presented in spreadsheets to facilitate use with analytic software. These files contain thousands of numbers and hundreds of categories, displayed by jurisdiction and over time. Data comes from a variety of sources including BJS statistical programs (correctional populations, Federal case processing), the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program of the FBI (Index crime, homicide, and arrests), and the Bureau of the Census (population numbers and noncriminal justice information).
- Crime in the United States 1995-1996
- From the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, Uniform Crime Reports. This report is in PDF format.
- Hate Crime Statistics, 1995+
- These reports are available in PDF format.
- Justice Department Crime Statistics
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics -- updated as new data is released
- Uniform Crime Reports, Preliminary Release - January through June 1997
- A brief compendium of crime statistics for the US and its cities of over 100,000 people. This report is in PDF format.
- Uniform Crime Reports, 1995 +
- Uniform Crime Reports, 1990-1995
- This collection consists of four county-level data files. The first three provide arrests for Part I offenses (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, and arson) and for Part II offenses (forgery, fraud, embezzlement, vandalism, weapons violations, sex offenses, drug and alcohol abuse violations, gambling, vagrancy, curfew violations, and runaways). The fourth file provides reported offenses (as opposed to arrests) for Part I crimes only. Two county population variables are included: one for total county population and the other for counties reporting six months or more of data. Provided by the University of Virginia Social Sciences Data Center.
Drug Abuse and Prevention
- Center for Drug Research (CEDRO)
- Provides information about drug policies in France, Germany and the US., including historical analyses, statistics, and consequences of drug policies and how the policies relate to economic and medical issues.
- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
- The Drug Library
- "The world's largest online library of drug policy," provides direct links to sites concerning addiction, marijuana, the Drug War, and essays and other articles.
- International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
- March, 1997 report issued by the Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; online from the U.S. State Department.
- The Lindesmith Center
- A Manhattan-based drug policy research institute. The site features full-text articles from the academic and popular press focusing on drug policy from economic, criminal justice, and public health perspectives.
- Marijuana Sentencing Guidelines
- Testimony by David Boaz, Executive Vice President of the CATO Institute before the U.S. Sentencing Commission.
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Psychoactive Substances and Violence
- By Jeffrey A. Roth; article online from the Justice Information Center.
- The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)