Criminal Justice Resources

SELECTED WEBSITES

Justice Information Center
Criminal Justice Links: Mr. Greek's site is widely considered to be the best directory of criminal justice links, arranged by topics such as crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, prisons, the death penalty, pornography, and due process. Includes links to federal criminal justice agencies.

Uniform Crime Reports: Uniform Crime Reports provide a nationwide view of crime based on the submission of statistics by law enforcement agencies throughout the country.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics: Collection of data on criminal justice in the U.S. taken from over 100 sources and published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Includes summaries of the Sourcebook with downloadable tables, graphs, and explanatory text.
National Crime Victimization Survey: The NCVS provides a detailed picture of crime incidents, victims, and trends. The Survey also estimates the number and types of crimes not reported to police.
Bureau of Justice Statistics: BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. Among the many informative documents available here are a description of the Nation's two crime measures (the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)) and a section devoted to Crime and Victims Statistics.
National Clearinghouse for Justice Information & Statistics: This U.S. Department of Justice site 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.
CJ Stats Web Sites: Huge list of WWW sites for Criminal Justice statistics.

The International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy: Offers a selection of articles, papers, and reports on a wide variety of topics. International in scope.
Vera Institute of Justice: Nonprofit institute conducting research on criminal justice, adolescent violence, and social welfare.

FindLaw: FindLaw is comprised of three search engines: the eponymous FindLaw which searches legal databases; FindLaw: Law Reviews, which offers full-text searches of legal journals on the Net; and the rather awesome LawCrawler which offers over a dozen options, the main one being "all U.S. sites with legal information."
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe: Use Academic Universe to find full-text newspaper articles as well as business, medical, legal and general reference information. Access restricted to the Saint Anselm College Community.
The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University: The Legal Information Institute Web site contains a huge amount of legal material organized by topic, type, and source, from state statutes to recent Supreme Court decisions. A recent addition is the Federal Judicial Statistics interface, which lets you get statistics on over 3.5 million (!) federal civil cases over the last 15 years.
Supreme Court Decisions 1937-1975

ABA Criminal Justice Section: The Section takes primary responsibility for the ABA's work on solutions to issues involving crime, criminal law, and the administration of criminal and juvenile justice. Web site includes policy statements and press releases, as well as a handy collection of CJ links arranged by topic.
ACLU Freedom Network: Criminal Justice: Useful directory of resources and sites related to criminal justice issues addressed by the American Civil Liberties Union. Covers sentencing, prison law and information, drug abuse, police resources, juvenile law, inmate assault, and forfeiture laws.
Amnesty International: Library of annual, campaign, and country reports. Provides links to AI chapters worldwide and to other organizations involved in human rights issues.
Criminal Defense: Michigan State Appellate Defender Office's legal resources project. Discusses recent criminal law developments, the basics of the criminal justice system, and locating criminal defense attorneys. Includes a discussion forum, a criminal defense database, addresses and maps, and a listing of training events sponsored by the agency.
OICJ: Information from the Office of International Criminal Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago. Includes extensive links to law enforcement, correctional, and criminal justice related sites, OICJ publications, press releases, and U.S. and international daily news briefs.
United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network: Comprehensive information on crime prevention and criminal justice issues. Includes links to the UN Centre for International Crime Prevention, the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, and other agencies and organizations dealing with international law, constitutions, treaties, and statistical sources.