INTERNET RESOURCES FOR
INTRODUCTORY CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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GENERAL INFORMATION LINKS
Comprehensive sites, Mega directories, guides, or linklists. They are relatively few in number, and may
be annotated or non-annotated. Some of the more academically useful ones are by professors
like Wilsker, Greek, Schmallenger, and O'Connor.
Agency websites, both government
and non-government. Police agencies are the most
prevalent and correctional agencies the least
prevalent with court sites somewhere in the middle.
The category of non-government includes non-profit agencies
and professional associations. These are relatively
many in number.
Clearinghouses, also called
Research Institutes, Centers, or Foundations. Their name will usually be an acronym, like ICPSR, NCJRS,
or NLETC. At these sites, you will usually find
advanced technical information and reports.
Law and Legal Research sites. A
fast-growing category, but also one that's been around a long time, like Cornell, FindLaw,
and Hieros Gamos. Every law school is online, many have
online courses, and legal research is done almost completely over the Internet today.
News sites, including online magazines, newspaper web supplements, newsletters, E-journals, publisher updates, and listservs. This is a diverse
category that is often overrelied upon. Topics and sources are usually sensationalized.
Personal Home pages. Good sites exist by professors,
librarians, authors, and the occasional student. They are
often specialized around some particular topic of interest but some try to be
comprehensive.
SPECIFIC LINKS USED IN ONLINE LECTURES
Lecture #1: What is Criminal Justice?
Bureau of Labor Statistics
AdviseNet
Employment
Mega-Site
Government Jobs
The federal government
Form OF-612
Legal Employment Search Site
The Corrections
Connection Career Center
Carpenter's Forensic Science Resources
Kruglick's List of Forensic Science links
Zeno's Forensic Page
LEMAS data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
Graduate Education Mega-Site
Cornell University's list of Law Schools
About.com - Crime/Punishment
About.com
- Current Events: Law
Societal Responses to President's Crime Commission--a 30-year retrospective
The Sherman Report (Preventing Crime: What Works)
Lecture #2: Crime Data
Statistical Analysis Centers
NCJRS
U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
NIJ
OJJDP
BJS
BJA
OVC
ONDCP
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
The NACJD website for Online
Analysis of NIBRS data
Bureau of Justice Statistics Home Page
Campus Crime and Security Website
Crime Data MegaSite
Crime Statistics Guide
FBI Uniform Crime Reports
National Archive of Criminal Justice
Data
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Statistics
When
Incarceration Increases Crime
Lecture #3: Crime Theories
CrimeTheory.com
Criminology Mega-Site
Prof. Hamlin's Notes on Deviance Theory
Prof. Keel's Theories of Deviance
Lecture #4: Crime Laws
About.com Current Events: Law
Anatomy of a Murder: A
Trip Thru the Legal System
CourtTV.com
FindLaw: Constitutional Rights
Mega-Site on Law
Nolo Law for All
What Happens When You're
Charged with a Crime
Lecture #5: Police Component
INS
FAA
FBI
DEA
ATF
Pinkerton Burns
Wackenhut
Guardsmark
Wells Fargo
Allied
ASIS (American Society for Industrial Security)
CATO Institute article on Expanding Federal Police Power
CopSeek Directory (leolinks)
Law Enforcement Sites on the Web
New York City's Precincts
Occupational Outlook Handbook on Private Detectives
Officer.com
PIMA's Law Enforcement Online
Police Structure & Organization Mega-Site
State Troopers Directory
U.S. Federal Government Agencies
Lecture #6: Police Issues
About.com
Crime's Backgrounder on Police Violence
ACLU Fighting Police Abuse
ACLU Rights to Encounters with Police
Amnesty
International Report on Police Brutality in the U.S.
Human Rights Watch Report on Police Brutality and Accountability
New York City's Precincts
Officer Down Memorial Page
Lecture #7: Police Law
Kyllo v. U.S.
(2001)
Drug Courier Profile Indicators
About.com Civil
Liberties Search & Seizure
ACLU Page on Racial Profiling
Article on Effective Search & Seizure
Lecture on Probable Cause
Miranda Law and Self-Incrimination
Nolo Press Guide to Arrest Law
Nolo Press Guide to Search & Seizure Law
Search and Seizure Law
Stop and Frisk Law
Lecture #8: Court Component
Structure of the
Federal court system
National Center for State
Courts
Pennsylvania's
Unified Court System
California's Superior Courts
Guide to Finding the court
you need
New Jersey Courts and Municipal
Courts
Texas Justice of the Peace courts
Teen courts
FEDERAL COURTS
Map of U.S.
circuits
U.S.
Supreme Court
U.S.
Court of Federal Claims
U.S.
Court of International Trade
U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
U.S.
Court of Veterans Appeals
U.S. Tax
Court
U.S.
Bankruptcy Courts
BJS Court and Sentencing
Statistics
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU
Federal Judicial Center
Federal Judiciary Homepage
Glossary of
Legal Terms
Judicial Watch (Honesty)
Justice at Stake Campaign for Fair State
Courts
LII Federal
Courts Overview
National Center for State Courts
National Tribal Justice Resource
Center
NCJRS Courts Page
North Carolina Court System
Salaries of
Prosecutors and Public Defenders
Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics on Courts
Well-done Court sites on the web
Lecture #9: Court Issues
National Legal Aid and Defender Association
Alabama Trial Lawyers Association
DOAR Trial Consultants, Inc.
Adversary System and
Divorce
A Look Inside How
a Court Operates
American Law Sources Online
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
Court Reform
of the Adversarial System
Grand Jury FAQ
How Grand
Juries Operate
Is the Adversarial System
Eroding?
National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers
Philosophic Logic of the Adversary System
Lecture #10: Sentencing
The courtroom
workgroup concept
The Minnesota model
The Sherman Report on What
Works in Criminal Justice
Beccaria, Deterrence and
Punishment
State Government Home Pages
list of Attorney General and
crime data sites
History of stocks
and pillories
ElectricChair.com
Pending Executions
Focus on Death Row
Guidelines for Handling
Requests for Postconviction DNA Testing
BJS 1998 Report on
the State of America's Crime Labs
BJS data resource page
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Sentencing Project
Bentham Project
Lecture on Trial Format
Lecture on Objections at Trial
Families Against Mandatory
Minimums
Death Penalty Links
History of Prisoner Appeals & Litigation
Minnesota Sentencing Commission Guidelines
National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers
The Other Side of the Wall
Reasons to Amend Three-Strike Laws
Sentencing: The Judge's Problem
Tales of Justice and
Vengeance
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Lecture #11: Community Corrections
Amber's Probation &
Parole Site
American Probation & Parole Association
Bill Sand's 7th Step Society
Broken Windows Probation: The Next Step in Fighting Crime
Carolina Correctional Services
Center for Restorative Justice
Five Futures for
Probation & Parole
Georgia Parole & Pardon Board
History of
John Augustus: Father of Probation
Mark's Parole and Crime
Measuring the Performance of Community Corrections
Parole and Prisoner Reentry in the United States (pdf)
United States Parole Commission
Welcome Home: Examining the
Reentry Court Concept
What Probation is like in Hunt
County, Texas
Lecture #12: Institutional Corrections
After Martinson:
The Case for Reintegration
Canada's Correctional Service
Cook County Jail
Corrections Connection;
"unofficial" sites
Corrections Education Connection
Departments of
Corrections for all States
Federal Bureau of Prisons;
UNICOR;
National Institute of Corrections
It's
Official: Prison Does Work After All (UK)
New York City Jail
John Howard Society Article on
Prison Overcrowding
PreventingCrime
Report on Rehabilitation and Treatment
Prof. Logan's Page on
Privatization in Corrections
Prison and Corrections
MegaLinks
Sentencing Project
Yahoo's Headlines
in Corrections News
Lecture #13: Prison Issues
Stop Prisoner Rape
ACLU Prisons Page
Corrections MegaLinks
Florida Report on Prison Gangs
Prison Activist Groups
Prisoners-dot-com: The Voice of the
Imprisoned
Street Gang Dynamics
The Other Side of the Wall
WebCam for Maricopa County Jail
Yahoo's Full
Coverage of Prison Issues
Lecture #14: Juvenile Crime and Justice
Utah's glossary of terms
North Carolina's glossary
of terms
OJJDP
American Bar
Association's Juvenile Justice web
California Youth Authority
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Children, Youth, and Family Consortium
Children's Defense Fund
Coalition for Juvenile Justice
Florida Department of Juvenile Justice
Infanticide, Dependency,
and Justice
Juvenile Information Network
Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse
Juvenile Justice MegaLinks
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
OJJDP report on female juvenile offenders
Trying Juveniles as Adults
Lecture #15: Wars on Crime
Second Amendment
Jurisprudence
Gallup Poll
Indicators of Most Important Problems
International Association of Crime Analysts
Joint Military Intelligence
College
Justice Blind's Links on the
Drug War
Loyola University's
Strategic Intel Page
Operation Intercept (Atlantic Monthly article)
The Real War on Crime (NCIA Report)
Terrorism and Civil Liberties
Lecture #16: Comparative Justice Systems
Qualitative
research methodology
Historiography
Holism
ASC Division of
International Criminology
BJS International Justice Statistics
Comparative Criminal Justice chapter of Handbook of CJ Administration
International Center for Criminal Law Reform
International Center for the Prevention of Crime
Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization
Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Law
Michigan State's List of International Criminal Justice Sites
NCJRS International Resources
Office of International Criminal Justice
Prof. Dreveskracht's Comparative Criminal Justice Resources
Prof. Greek's Comparative Criminal Justice Resources
Prof. Reichel's Textbook Supplement Site
Prof. Round's Textbook Companion Website
Transnational Crime and Corruption Center
United Nations Crime and Justice Network
United Nations Interregional Crime Institute
United Nations Surveys of Criminal Justice Operations
World Criminal Justice Library Electronic Network
World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems
Lecture #17: Technology and Justice
Officer.com list of
policing divisions
techpolice.com
Police Futurists
World Futurist Society
IACP technology clearinghouse
NLETC
Freedom of Information Act
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