Web
Sites Criminal Justice
The
Access to
Justice Network
A
site for Canadian law and justice resource materials.
American Bar
Association (
Homepage
of the largest and most influential national association of attorneys. Information about the positions taken by
the association and model ethics rules is available at this site.
American Bar
Association, Criminal Justice Section
http://www.abanet.org/crimjust
With its unique
interdisciplinary membership, the criminal justice section takes primary responsibility
for the
American Board
of Criminalists
http://www.criminalistics.com/ABC
The American
Board of Criminalistics provides a peer-developed and
peer-reviewed certification program, based on assessment of competency using
written examinations and proficiency testing.
American Civil
Liberties
The American
Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost advocate of individual rights --
litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues
affecting individual freedom in the
American
Judicature Society
Primary areas of
focus are judicial independence, ethics in the courts, judicial selection, the
jury, court administration, and public understanding of the justice system.
American
Probation & Parole Association (APPA)
APPA is an
international association composed of individuals from the
American Society
for Industrial Security (ASIS)
ASIS is an
international organization for professionals responsible for security, such as
corporate managers and directors of security. In addition, corporate executives
and other management personnel, as well as consultants, architects, attorneys,
and federal, state, and local law enforcement are active members of ASIS.
American Society
of Criminology (ASC)
World
Wide Web site of the American Society of Criminology. The A.S.C. is the pre-eminent
organization of academic, theoretical, and applied criminology in the
American
Sociological Association (ASA)
World
Wide Web site of the American Sociological Association. The A.S.A. has many members who focus
upon criminology and the sociological impact of crime and the criminal justice
system.
Amnesty
International
The home page of
Amnesty International -- an organization dedicated to the international fight
against the death penalty, and to the abolition of torture worldwide.
APB News
APB News
provides award-winning crime news and information to major media partners
throughout the country. Breaking news and archived stories make this the
top-rated crime news site in the country.
Atlantic
Monthly's Criminology Collection
http://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic/election/connection/crime/crime.htm
Great
collection on crime and social policy.
Australian
Institute of Criminology
Substantial
on-line collection of research and reports.
Bureau of
Justice Assistance (BJA)
The Bureau of
Justice Assistance (BJA), a component of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S.
Department of Justice, supports innovative programs that strengthen the
Nation's criminal justice system by assisting State and local governments in
combating violence.
Bureau of
Justice Statistics (BJS)
This site is the
Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice,
it is the
Center for Law
and Social Policy
This site serves
a non-profit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the
poor. The site has publications and an audio conferencing capability.
Computer and
Internet Security Resources
http://virtuallibrarian.com/legal
Collection of
links to WWW sites focusing on internet security and privacy.
Computer Crime
Research Resources
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~btf1553/ccrr/welcome.htm
Extensive
collection of information about and links to computer crime resources.
Computer
Security Institute
Computer
Security Institute (CSI) is a leading membership organization specifically
dedicated to serving and training information, computer and network security
professionals.
A
starting point for
Corrections
Connection
Voted a
Microsoft "Outstanding Criminal Justice Site," the Corrections
Connections provides links to almost any correctional organization in the
country, and to all kinds of corrections information. The Corrections
Connection contains over 10,000 links to corrections-related sites and
literature.
Counterterrorist
Organization Profiles
http://www.terrorism.com/terrorism/CTgroups.html
Information
about those who combat terrorism world-wide.
Court TV
Website
of the cable TV station.
Information about their coverage, some with full text concerning the trials
they cover.
Court TV On-Line
Court TV is a
24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week, cable legal news network and cable programmer
dedicated to reporting on the
Courts.Net
Site has links
to courts in all 50 states as well as federal courts.
Crime Spider --
a crime and justice search engine
A crime and
justice Internet search engine offering information on a wide range of sites,
including cybercrime, industrial espionage,
detectives, domestic violence, private investigations, criminalistics,
and so on.
Crime Theory.Com
An Educational
Resource for the Learning and Teaching of Theoretical Criminology
CrimeLynx -- The Criminal Defense Practitioner's
Guide through the Internet
Contains
a legal resource center with research links, links to experts, investigation
links, and crime policy links.
A criminal justice center with media links, shopping, and chat is also
available onsite.
Criminal Law
Links
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/09criminal/
Criminal Defense
and Criminal Justice section of this leading legal portal site.
Critical
Criminal Justice Issues: Task Force Reports from the American Society of
Criminology
Report and
recommendations to Attorney General Janet Reno by a respected organization of
scholars and practitioners (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
This site
contains a wealth of information on the death penalty.
Department of
Justice (
Many
links to Canadian legislative initiatives.
Department of
Justice Home Page (DOJ)
The Department
of Justice goal is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the
Dr. Frank Schmalleger's Criminal Justice Cybrary
http://talkjustice.com/cybrary.asp
The
World Wide Web criminal justice site directory -- with listings for over 12,000
criminal justice and justice-related sites. Sites are categorized into many
different areas, and are fully searchable. The Cybrary
Top 100 provides a list of the 100 most useful criminal justice sites on the
Web today. The Cybrary bills itself as "The
World's Criminal Justice Directory."
Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA)
The
D.E.A.'s official home page. Lots of publications
available, along with a history of the D.E.A.
Dumb Laws
Dumb laws from
all states and a wide variety of foreign jurisdictions are included. The full
text of many laws cited is available.
Electronic
Policy Network (EPN)
A site dedicated
to economic, political, domestic, health and education issues.
Electronic
Policy Network (EPN)
A site dedicated
to economic, political, domestic, health and education issues.
Evidence: The
True Witness
http://library.thinkquest.org/17049/
An
award-winning student-created site about forensics.
Family Research
Council (FRC)
The Family
Research Council exists to reaffirm and promote nationally, and particularly in
Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI)
The
home page of the FBI.
The FBI uphold the law through the investigation of violations of federal
criminal law; protects the United States from foreign intelligence and
terrorist activities; provides leadership and law enforcement assistance to
international, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies.
FedLaw
Outstanding
resource for legal research.
Though available to the public, the site was developed "to see if legal
resources on the Internet could be a useful and cost-effective research tool
for Federal lawyers."
Find Law
A
full featured and connected site dealing with legal information, with search
feature.
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks/
One of the
oldest criminal justice resources on the web, this site consists mostly of
links to other sites.
HandsNet -- Building The
Human Services Community Online
Dedicated
to brining human services information on-line.
Idea Central
http://www.epn.org/ideacentral/
A site dedicated
to economic, political, domestic, health and education issues.
Ira Wilsker's Law Enforcement Sites
Extensive
collection of links to law enforcement sites. Particular focus on South East Texas,
but the collection incorporates many sites in the
JUSTINFO: The
Newsletter of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://virlib.ncjrs.org/JUSTINFO.asp
Stay informed
about new publications, grants and funding opportunities, and other news and
announcements by subscribing to JUSTINFO. This free service will be e-mailed to
you on the 1st and 15th of every month.
Juvenile Justice
Magazine on-line
http://www.juvenilejustice.com
Current issues
of this bi-monthly magazine are available.
Law Enforcement
Jobs (lawenforcementjobs.com) employment
http://www.lawenforcementjobs.com
Arguably
the best site on the Web for anyone looking for employment in the law
enforcement field.
The site lists jobs with local departments, state departments, federal agencies, the
Law Enforcement
Links (LEOLINKS)
Many links to
law enforcement sites with a good search feature. Another excellent list of law
enforcement agencies can be found at: Just4Cops
Law Guru
An excellent
legal search engine
Law Links
http://www.counsel.com/lawlinks
Law News Network
http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/
Law News Network
is the national daily newspaper for and about the legal profession. A service
of American Lawyer Media, Law News Network describes itself as the most current
and comprehensive legal news source anywhere.
Law.com
An
excellent site for lawyers, students, and business and government officials to
learn more about the law.
Plenty of legal resources, a legal dictionary, a careers service, and
state-specific databases are available.
LawCrawler
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
Search for
keywords or by relevant websites.
Lectric Law Library (The 'Lectric
Law Library)
An
excellent collection of on-line legal materials and resources.
Lexis ONE
An
excellent free legal research site providing searchable case law, free legal
forms, a statutory law guide, a legal Internet guide and much more. The site is part of the Lexis-Nexis
family of products.
Los Angeles
Police Department (LAPD)
Official
site of one of the world's largest police agencies. Lots of information
and links about this agency.
MegaLinks in Criminal Justice
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor
A
very comprehensive site where you can find just about anything related to crime
and law enforcement.
Contains
information about missing children and those who have been abused or exploited.
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/crime/crime71.html
A site dedicated
to probation, parole, sentencing, prison and court issues.
Organization
providing support and assistance to state courts and their operation.
Extensive
on-line resource for victim information and advocacy. Contains many links
and information about the organization's advocacy efforts.
National
Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
The NCAD acts as
an information services facility (English, Spanish, TDD capability) equipped to
respond to the public's alcohol, tobacco, and drug (ATD) inquiries. They have
publications and research material.
National Council
on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD)
Website
of this research and advocacy group with annotated links to related sites. Focus of the group is on children as
victims and perpetrator's of crime and needs of dependent children.
National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
The U.S. Dept.
of Justice's site that focuses on international, juvenile and drug crimes.
There is a database search engine and catalogs
National
Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Sponsoring
agency of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. The National Institute of Justice is a
component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of
Justice Assistance, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Science and
Technology and Sentencing and Adjudication Program.
National Institute
of
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/international/
Home
page of NIJ's
National Rifle
Association (NRA)
Home
page of the National Rifle Association.
National
Security Institute -- Computer Security Resources
Many
links to resources for those interested in computer and internet security.
Information on
youth gangs including statistics and probable solutions.
New York City
Police Department (NYPD)
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/nypd/home.html
Official
website of one of the largest police agencies in the world. Contains much
information about the organization and its efforts.
Office for
Victims of Crime (OVC)
U.S.
Department of Justice site with information about crime victims and resources
for crime victims. Contains an extensive collection of links to other relevant
information.
Office of
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
Provides
information on grants, news, conferences, and publications.
Office of
National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
This agency
serves as the central research and development organization in the United
States Government for counterdrug enforcement and
drug abuse education, prevention and treatment.
Parents of
Murdered Children (POMC)
The National
Organization of Parents Of Murdered Children (POMC)®
is the only national helping organization which is specifically for the
survivors of homicide victims and which follows up with supportive family
services after the murder of a family member or friend.
Partnerships Against Violence (PAVNET)
Partnerships Against Violence Network (PAVNET) is a "virtual
library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing
data from seven different federal agencies. Violence prevention professionals
can communicate and share resources through the Pavnet
mailgroup. NCJRS says that PAVNET is "A Model of
Internet Use."
Patterns Of Global Terrorism
http://www.usis.usemb.se/terror/ http://www.usis.usemb.se/terror/
Annual
reports since 1994 on the nature of terrorism and activities of the
Police Guide
One of the
largest police sites on the Internet. The site consists of 238 separate web
pages -- and is growing.
Police
Scanner.com
http://www.policescanner.com/police.stm
Here you'll find
the latest live audio-enabled police sites.
Preventing
Crime, What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising
http://cjcentral.com/sherman/sherman.htm
On-line
copy of a report sponsored by the National Institute of Justice dealing with a
review of crime prevention efforts in the
Project on Human
Development in
http://www.rand.org/centers/dprc
Reintegrative Shaming Experiments
http://www.aic.gov.au/rjustice/rise/index.html
Reports examine
and present evidence available from Reintegrative
Shaming Experiments (RISE) about the effects of diversionary restorative
justice conferences on repeat offending.
Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP)
The
website for the prominent Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Their extensive site provides
information on many of the facets of their organization.
Sourcebook of
Criminal Justice Statistics
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook
Home
of the on-line version of the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics -- the
largest compilation of criminal justice statistics available anywhere. The Sourcebook site is run by the State
University of New York at
Stop Prisoner
Rape
Stop Prisoner
Rape (SPR) is a small but growing national non-profit organization dedicated to
combatting the rape of male and female prisoners and
to helping survivors of jailhouse rape.
Supreme Court
Opinions from the Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/focus/bulletins.html
Since 1993, the
Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School has provided a free current
awareness service via E-mail, distributing the syllabi of U.S. Supreme Court
decisions in bulletin format within hours after their release. Known as the liibulletin, this service will continue with the Court's
upcoming October term.
Talk Justice
Talk Justice is
the nation's premier criminal justice discussion forum. Offering a number of
message boards, it is available for use by students, professors, professionals,
and interested citizens.
Technology and
Privacy (the Home Page of Gary T. Marx)
http://web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/garyhome.html
Professor Marx
posts numerous articles on technology and privacy.
Terrorism
Documents
http://www.terrorism.com/terrorism/documents.html
Links to
documents maintained by the
Many
on-line resources dealing with terrorism, terrorist organizations, and
anti-terrorism efforts.
Terrorist Group
Profiles
http://www.terrorism.com/terrorism/Groups2.html
Profiles
of terrorist groups maintained by the
The Global
Bibliography of Prison Systems
http://www.uncjin.org/country/GBOPS/gbops.html
The primary goal
for this bibliography is to provide practitioners, scholars, and students with
a comprehensive source for identifying information written about the prison
system in as many countries of the world as possible.
Good starting
point for research about federal law enforcement and crime data.
http://www.usis.usemb.se/terror/
Text
of the State Department's analysis of global terrorism. Brief discussion of
terrorist acts and organizations and discussion of anti-terrorist initiatives.
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct
U.S. Supreme
Court online
Round the clock
access to the U.S. Supreme Court! This site provides public access to the
Court's decisions, argument calendar, schedules, rules, visitors' guides,
building photos and bar admission forms. Although dockets have also been
available by phone, this is the first venture onto the Internet for the
nation's highest court. It has decision texts available online by noon on the
day they are announced (which always occurs at 10 a.m. ET).
Uniform Crime
Reports (UCR)
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
The most recent
Crime Reports collected by the FBI and made available to the public.
United Nations
Human Rights Website
This site
focuses on the functioning of the United Nations system in the field of human
rights. They have publications and press releases.
http://www.uaa.alaska.edu/just/rlinks/corrections/index.html
the
Vera Institute
of Justice
Working
in collaboration with government, the Vera Institute of Justice designs and
implements innovative programs that encourage just practices in public services
and improve the quality of urban life. Vera operates the programs it designs only during the
Versus Law
Subscription
based service allowing search of federal and state case law.
Victims’
Information
http://virlib.ncjrs.org/VictimsOfCrime.asp
Extensive
collection of information about victims of crime.
A
great collection of criminal justice- and law-related sites, with a search
feature.
White House's
Social Statistics Briefing Room On Crime Data
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/crime.html
Collection
of selected data concerning crime in the
World Wide Web
Security FAQ
http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/www-security-faq.html
Very
useful resource for anyone with, or considering, a World Wide Web site.
WWW Virtual Law
Library (
http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib
Numerous law
related links.