Useful Criminal Justice Web Sites

Criminal Justice Links - http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cj.html

• Description: Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice maintains this page. Links to pages related to drugs and alcohol, crime and crime prevention (includes Criminal Violence; Guns; Crime Prevention and Victims Organizations; Unsolved Crimes, Fugitives and Criminal Records Checks; Militias, Cults, Bombers, & Arsonists; Government and Political Crime; Organized Crime; Property, White-Collar and Computer Crimes; Copyright Issues; Satanic Crime; Vice Crimes; and Abnormal Behavior), juvenile delinquency
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Justice Information Center of National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - http://www.ncjrs.gov/

• Description: Extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice. NCJRS is a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs: the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the OJP Program Offices. It also supports the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
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National Youth Gang Center (NYGC) - http://www.iir.com/nygc/

• Description: Includes summaries of gang related news searchable by state, gang related legislation by state and subject, statistical information and links to related reports.
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NCJJ: National Center for Juvenile Justice - http://ncjj.servehttp.com/NCJJWebsite/index.html

• Description: Founded as the research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. The Publications/Databases include many downloadable items. Most require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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Sex offender notification - "Megan's law" site - http://www.klaaskids.org/pg-leg.htm

• Description: KlaasKids Foundation site with state-by-state info on sex offender reporting laws. Also has victims' rights information, state-by-state, and information on the Amber Alert system.
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Sites Related to Criminal Justice (Vera Institute) - http://www.vera.org/

• Description: Extensive list of criminal justice-related sites; maintained by Vera Institute, a private, non-profit organization devoted to encouraging just practices in public services.
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Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/

• Description: Web version of the annual publication. Currently contains 29th edition of Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, published in 2001. Contains tables of statistics on all sorts of criminal-justice-related topics. Includes a section on public opinion as well as statistics collected by law enforcement, judicial, and corrections agencies.
• Appropriate to course or program: Criminal Justice
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Virtual Gumshoe - http://www.virtualgumshoe.com/

• Description: Directory of investigative resources including: sex offender notification; information on cults, gangs, terrorists, and hate groups.
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