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Resources on international social work and human rights.
This is the major general encyclopedia for the criminal justice field. It includes 250 essays on the causes of crime, criminal behavior, crime prevention, institutions of criminal justice, and criminal law.
As the "information clearinghouse" of the U.S. Department of Justice, National Criminal Justice Reference Service offers here fulltext reports and studies on criminal justice topics, NCJRS catalog, conference and grants information, listservs, calendar of events and links to numerous criminal justice sites.
Includes criminal justice data, missing children, most wanted list, products and services for criminal justice professionals, recent laws, publications, and extensive links to other criminal justice resources.
In addition to information on academics, faculty, and jobs, this homepage includes links to many criminal justice sites.
Cecil Greek's large collection of links to criminal justice, police, substance abuse, courts, crime prevention, law, death penalty, criminal justice education sites, etc. Also lists of discussion groups and e-journals.
Access to United Nations documents and standards, statistical sources, laws and treaties, country information and Institutes of the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network.
This site provides links to criminal justice information on countries around the world. Includes links to government agencies, statistical information, conferences, conferences, library catalogs, lists of resources, etc.
CPRI is "dedicated to conducting and/or supporting empirical and historical study of issues involving the ultimate penal sanction."
News and activities of California organization opposed to the death penalty.
This report on women and the death penalty includes figures on death sentences, women currently on death row, and executions and comparisons to figures on males.
"Anti-Capital Punishment Resources from the ASC's Critical Criminology Division."
DPIC is a "...non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment." Listed are executions, state by state information, issues, DPIC reports, news.
Federal and state statistics and polls (from Justice Center Web Site, University of Alaska).
"A grassroots organization committed to educating the public about the flaws and injustices in the Illinois capital punishment system..."
Operated by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, the Innocence Project undertakes "cases where postconviction testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence."
News, actions, and resources from New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, a "statewide coalition of organizations and individuals committed to the abolition of capital punishment."
This organization represents death row inmates in Texas and does research on the death penalty there.
Comprehensive listing of corrections news, organizations, policy, jobs, funding, and discussion.
Directory and inmate information, employment information, National Institute of Corrections.
New York State prisons and locations, inmate information, employment opportunities, research reports.
Documents and information about restorative justice, including a "web tour of the best restorative justice websites."
"The Campbell Collaboration is an independent, international, non-profit organization that aims to help people make well-informed decisions about the effects of interventions in the social, behavioral and educational arenas." The Collaboration's Crime and Justice Group web site features reports and conference papers, information about the group's systematic reviews of criminal justice research studies, and links to other evidence-based practice criminal justice sites.
This is the home page for the NIC's corrections library. The NIC is an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons. The NIC's library contains numerous evidence-based practice reports and articles written by the NIC, the Crime & Justice Institute, and other criminal justice and public policy organizations. These publications focus on criminal justice issues such as community corrections, probation/parole, mental illness, and substance abuse treatment.
The Center's mission is to evaluate California's corrections programs and "provide information that helps corrections officials make policy decisions based on scientific evidence." The Center's web site includes descriptions of current projects and full text articles, reports, and other publications regarding the application of evidence-based practices in evaluating corrections programs.
Descriptions of collections in the University Libraries' M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives, Archives of Public Affairs and Policy. Included are records of Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, the Correctional Association of New York State, Arthur H. Estabrook, Eliot H. Lumbard, the New York State Coalition for Criminal Justice, the New York State Executive Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice, and Carleton Simon.
A guide to records on the history of state prisons and correctional services housed in the New York State Archives, Albany, NY.
A comprehensive list of major books in criminology, 1846 to the present, arranged by time period.
Articles on the history of individual prisons in New York State.
History of New York City jails and pentitentiaries.
Exhibit at the University at Albany, University Art Museum on the history and images of biological criminology. September 23-November 5, 2000.
Resources on international social work and human rights.
This organization advocates reforms in juvenile justice. Site has statistics, advocacy stategy, and resources, including the 11/15/07 report, Jailing Juveniles. (Full text of report is under "News.")
Information on juvenile justice legislation in the states, technical assistance projects, and CJ Letter, an online criminal justice newsletter.
From the ABA Criminal Justice Section, this site tracks federal and state policy and offers juvenile justice standards and fulltext articles on juvenile justice issues.
Juvenile justice programs, education programs, and state agency resources for juvenile justice.
Choose "Juvenile Just" on agency list. Information on services for juvenile justice in New York City, including court services, facilities, history and statistics.
Information on the FBI, science and technology in law enforcement, "Most wanted" lists, Freedom of Information and Privacy Act, careers.
Links to web pages for federal, state, local, foreign and college police departments. From Cecil Greek at Florida State University.
History, programs, Bureau of Criminal Investigation, traffic safety, statistics, employment opportunities .
Information on federal policing in Canada, forensic laboratories, Canadian Police Information Centre, Canadian Police College, Canadian Criminal Records Information Services, news releases, recruiting, etc.
The COPS office, which is part of the U.S. Department of Justice, is designed to help state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies implement community policing programs. The site includes a Resource Information Center with fact sheets, newsletters, and guides, as well as information and publications on a variety of community policing topics, such as school safety, underage drinking, gangs, and identity theft.
Drug Reform Coordination Network is dedicated to the reform of the nation's drug laws and policies.
NIAAA publications, press releases, research, programs, conferences, etc. Also includes the Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database, with over 100,000 records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism.
Information on drugs and abuse, publications, meeting dates, news releases, funding, etc.
"...the only search engine to index the 26 most authoritative public interest and U.S. government sites" on substance abuse.
PREVLINE allows multi-web site search of several federal, state and private organizations concerned with substance abuse.
Project Cork disseminates information on substance abuse. Its site includes a database of more than 13,000 articles and books on substance abuse.
"Web of Addictions is dedicated to providing accurate information about alcohol and other addictions."
Includes Victimology Research Database on research in progress, news bulletins and many links to victimology sites worldwide.
Information on grants, victim assistance, technical assistance as well as statistics, web resources and fulltext publications.
Metasite for victimology by Charles Dreveskracht at Northeastern State University, Oklahoma.
This is an interdisciplinary, searchable database of 100,000 records on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Records cover the late 1960's to the present.
A searchable database of 25,000 articles, reports, book chapters and books on child abuse and neglect and child welfare issues.
Free access to NLM's many databases--MEDLINE, AIDSLINE, BIOETHICSLINE, HealthSTAR, OLDMEDLINE, TOXLINE, and several others.
Searchable database of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service covering more than 150,000 documents (from federal, state and local governments), articles, and books on criminal justice topics .
A searchable database of information on programs and funding on violence and youth-at-risk. Also includes technical assistance information.
PREVLINE allows multi-web site search of several federal, state and private organizations concerned with substance abuse.
A database of more than 13,000 articles and books on alcohol and substance abuse.
A small database of research in progress in the victimology field. Click on "Links" at the top of the page; on the links page, click on "Study & Research."
(selected articles) .
Collection of New York State documents in electronic format. Includes materials from executive, legislative and judicial branches.
Statistics on U.S. crime, offenders and the justice system. Also links to other government and international sources, criminal justice data sets and abstracts of data sets.
Includes Uniform Crime Reports, Hate Crime Statistics, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, National Incident-Based Reporting System, Terrorism in the U.S. and other reports.
This site offers data on suspects and defendants from the Federal Justice Statistics Program database. Includes Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics.
Statistics from more than 100 agencies of the U.S. government.
"JRSA is a national organization of state Statistical Analysis Center directors as well as analysts, researchers, and practitioners throughout the justice system." Included is information on programs, research, publications, links to Statistical Analysis Center web sites and the JRSA databases on state criminal justice research and national firearms research.
Research data available from ICPSR, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and National Institute of Justice.
General source of statistics for New York State including population, health and human services, housing, education, public safety and the criminal justice system, etc.
More than 600 tables of Criminal Justice statistics, produced at the University at Albany.
The federal government's compendium of statistics. Includes both statistics and sources for researching further information.
Extensive links to U.S. and international "Statistics Collections" on criminal justice.
New York State criminal justice data from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.
The Criminal Justice/Criminology Discussion Group serves as a forum for sharing information, ideas, and news in the fields of criminal justice and criminology librarianship. Group meetings focus on issues of common concern for improving library service in the field. The discussion group is part of the American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Anthropology and Sociology Section. ALA Midwinter Meeting 2008 will be in Philadelphia. The Criminal Justice/Criminology Discussion Group will meet January 12, 2008 at 4:00-5:30pm at Marriott 404. Topic to be announced. Contact ANSS for more information .
The American Psychological Association's guide to bibliographies, reference citations in text, etc.
A guide to reference resources for Criminal Justice at the University at Albany .