These web resources provide access to statistics, organizations, online journals and other justice-related sources.
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Bureau of Justice Statistics:
Provides numerous statistical documents relating to criminal justice. Categories include crimes and victims, criminal offenders, the justice system, and crime and justice data from other justice-related organizations.
Death Penalty Information Center
This website offers a significant amount of statistical data including crime statistics, Death Row demographic data, and reports about the application of the death penalty on a national, as well as state-by-state, level. The site was established, and is maintained by, the Death Penalty Information Center which opposes the death penalty.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
The NACJD is a special topic archive of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
(ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. NACJD acquires, archives, processes, and provides access to electronic criminal justice data collections for research and instruction. The NACJD Web site provides downloadable access to hundreds of criminal justice data collections free of charge.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics:
Published by the Bureau of Justice and SUNY-Albany. The Sourcebook is an authoritative and comprehensive compilation of statistics representing all aspects of criminal justice in the United States.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR):
The UCR is a comprehensive, yearly compilation of various national crime statistics based on local and state police reports.
Federal Bureau of Prison Quick Facts:
This site provides a statistical overview of the federal prison system.
Federal Sentencing Statistics by State:
Sponsored by the United States Sentencing Commission, this site lists sentencing statistics by circuit court and state.
Criminal Justice Statistics Center:
This site from the State of California, Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General provides access to state-related crime statistics.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States
"The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States." Data are compiled from a wide array of federal agencies and sources.
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice: Cybercrime Criminal Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
National Institute of Justice
State of California, Department of Justice
California Department of Corrections
California Highway Patrol
United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime
The Pew Center on States: Public Safety Performance
Offers in-depth, non-partisan research and analysis on criminal sentencing and prison administration.
Talk Justice
Dr. Frank Schmalleger's site gives a voice to criminal justice practitioners, academicians, students, crime victims, and interested citizens.
World Criminal Justice Library Electronic Network
This site provides links to international law enforcement issues.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Excellent site that contains numerous CJ-related internet resources. Created by the Lloyd Sealy Library at John Jay College (CUNY).
Florida State University, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
CopSeek
A directory and specialized search engine for police-related sites.
Corrections Connection Network
Offers reports and data on "sentencing inequities" and the development of sentencing alternatives.
Journals /Publications
The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Full-text articles of this monthly publication are provided.
The Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
JCJPC describes itself as "publishing reviews of all types of popular culture artifacts and original essays pertaining to the intersection of popular culture and criminal justice."
Crime-Times
Published by the Wacker Foundation. This newsletter reports on research and news related to "the biological aspect of crime and violence."
The Western Criminology Review
Official journal of the Western Society of Criminology.
