Criminal
Justice :
Anatomy
of a Murder: A Trip Through Our Nation's Legal Justice System
You
will be able to follow the story of a Defendant as he faces one
of the most serious charges that the legal justice system of the
U.S. can levy against an individual. This is more than an exciting
fictional story, however. Absolutely every aspect of the tale is
researched and legally accurate. By enjoying this story you will
learn the details of a criminal trial that are often glossed over
on television and in the movies. This story will describe to you
the events of a Criminal Prosecution as they would actually unfold.
Legal terms, where they are used, can be looked up in the glossary.
Bureau
of Justice Statistics (US Department of Justice)
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. Annually, BJS publishes
a document that presents findings of major BJS statistical series,
describes BJS data collection programs and summarizes programs.
The information in the most recent edition is also available from
the BJS web site.
Corrections
Connection
An online resource for news and information relating to corrections.
Criminal
Justice Links
A collection of criminal justice links categorized by topic,
compiled by Dr. Cecil Greek of Florida State University School of
Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Criminal
Justice MegaLinks
Criminal Justice MegaLinks is a comprehensive informational
and educational site for the criminal justice field: police, judiciary,
corrections, criminology, law, government, technology, and the media.
The most informative sites make a Best of CJ list, a Current Events
page, or one of the many topical pages. Graduate school links, Distance
Education links, and Employment links are also provided.
Criminal
Justice Resources
General purpose web page identifying reference resources available
for research at the Michigan State University Libraries as well
as providing web resources on over 50 topics such as the death penalty,
drugs and crime, gangs, organized crime, race and crime, and women
and crime. Compiled by Jon Harrison, Criminal Justice Bibliographer.
Financial
Crimes Enforcement Network - FinCEN
This site is maintained by the U.S. Treasury.
Interpol
Interpol aims to ensure and promote mutual assistance between
all criminal police authorities and to establish and develop all
institutions likely to contribute effectively to the prevention
and suppression of crimes.
NACJD
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
NACJD's specific goals include: Providing computer-readable
data for the quantitative study of crime and the criminal justice
system through the development of a central data archive that disseminates
computer-readable data; Supplying technical assistance in selecting
data collections and the computer hardware and software for analyzing
data efficiently and effectively; Offering training in quantitative
methods of social science research to facilitate secondary analysis
of criminal justice data through the ICPSR Summer Training Program.
NCJRS
- Justice Information Center
NCJRS is one of the most extensive resources of information
on criminal and juvenile justice in the world, providing services
to an international community of policymakers and professionals.
NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of
the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. In addition,
NCJRS houses one of the largest libraries of justice-related
literature in the world, currently possessing over 140,000
publications. Full abstracts of these publications are currently
searchable on-line at:
http://fulltextpubs.ncjrs.org/.
NCJRS
also maintains an extensive mailing list to disseminate OJP agency
publications. Other services, including electronic newsletters such
as JUSTINFO and JUVJUST help keep criminal and juvenile justice
professionals abreast with current criminal and juvenile justice
research, topics, and issues.
Nathanson
Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption (Osgoode
Hall Law School; York University, Toronto)
Includes a bibliographic database search.
Officer.com
Officer.com is a comprehensive law enforcement site with many
useful criminal justice resources.
Redwood
Highway, The: Crime, Law and Related Links
The Redwood Highway: Crime, Law and Related Links is an annotated
list of sites on the world wide web dealing with the nature and
extent of crime, law, the response to crime, corrections, and prevention.
It also deals with scholarly aspects of criminology, including publication,
research, methodology, and teaching.
Texas
State Prison System Directory
- Texas Department of Criminal Justice list of prison addresses
alphabetized by TDCJ unit's city location.
World
Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
This factbook, developed under a BJS Grant, provides narrative
descriptions of the criminal justice systems of countries around
the world. These country descriptions are written to a common template
so that comparisons of similar functions in different countries
can be easily made.
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