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  ¤@¯ë¥Ç¸o¾Ç  General Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Database of WWW Resources

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Department of Sociology/Criminal Justice, University of North Alabama.
  • Lists URLs for federal law enforcement and prison agencies. This site is not frequently updated.

Criminal Justice Links

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Cecil Greek, Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice.
  • Thousands of links to criminal justice agencies, police and court sites, and educational resources in forensic science and criminal justice.
  • Not updated frequently.

Criminal Justice System

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Police and prison systems in England and Wales.
  • Describes the various law enforcement and prison agencies within the UK.

Legal Information Institute

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Cornell University Law School.
  • Extensive links to State constitutions, codes, and court decisions.
  • Click on “Current Awareness: Eye on the Court?for searchable information about recent Supreme Court and other appellate decisions.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, U.S. Department of Justice.
  • Downloadable raw data on national and international crime.
  • Gives examples of SAS and SPSS command files for manipulating the data; one of these programs is necessary for summarizing and interpreting the data files.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

  • ºô¯¸«Ø¸mªÌ: Utilization of Criminal Justice Statistics Project, University of Albany (NY).
  • In Adobe Acrobat .PDF format, the Web site provides tables of U.S. data on public attitudes towards crime and the justice system, numbers of offenses and characteristics of arrested persons, and the prison population.