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| ONLINE RESOURCES - SUBJECT
GUIDE
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & Law -
Selected Links |
Comprehensive
Child Abuse
- Child
Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources -
by Jim Hopper, Ph.D., a researcher and therapist.
- Child
Welfare Information Gateway - Responding to Child Abuse & Neglect
- Information on reporting suspected child abuse
and neglect; intake, investigation, and assessment of reports; case
management and more.
- Children's
Rights Council - Children's Bill of Right, benefits in divorce,
etc.
- Family
Law Advisor - Professional services and resources.
- MedlinePlus:
Child Abuse - Links to information about child
abuse and neglect. Topics include diagnosis, treatment, prevention,
research, organizations, law and policy, and statistics.
- Prevent
Child Abuse America -
A description of advocacy efforts, research publications, prevention
tips, event listings and more.
Criminal Justice
Service
- ACJS Home Page - The official
Websites of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
- ACLU Freedom Network - American
Civil Liberties Union's web page: Know your rights, New updates, Criminal
justice in the 107th congress, and more.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- A federally sponsored information clearinghouse for people involved
with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile
justice and drug control.
- The National Center for Victims of Crime -
Service and help for crime victims.
- Handbook of Forensic Sciences
- Guidance and procedures for safe and efficient methods of collecting
and preserving evidence and to describe the forensic examinations performed
by the FBI Laboratory.
- CopNet - Community service
involved in the law enforcement community around the world.
Corrections
- American
Probation and Parole Association (APPA) - An
international association involved with probation, parole and community-based
corrections.
- National
Institute of Corrections (NIC) - An agency within the U.S. Department
of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, provides training, technical
assistance, information services, and policy/program development assistance
to Federal, State, and local corrections agencies.
- Prisons & Prison Law Page
- Prison news, articles, dictionary , death penalty and more.
Courts
- National Center for State Courts
- NCSC is a nonprofit organization that promotes
justice through leadership and service to the state courts. Its mission
is accomplished through research, education, consulting and information
services.
- New Jersey Judiciary - Information
about NJ Courts.
- Supreme
Court of the United States -
General information, opinions, term orders, argument calendar, schedules,
court rules, bar admission forms and instructions, case-handling guides,
special notices, biographies of current and past justices, architectural
details, and press releases.
History
Resources of Criminal Justice
Government
Agencies
-
United States Department of Justice - About DOJ, publications,
employment, grants, Fugitives & Missing Persons & more.
- Central
Intelligence Agency - (US CIA) An independent
agency, responsible to the President through the DCI, and accountable
to the American people through the intelligence oversight committees
of the U.S. Congress.
- Federal
Bureau of Investigation - FBI is the principal investigative
arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
- Office
of Justice Programs (OJP) - provides "federal leadership in
developing the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime, improve
the criminal and juvenile justice systems, increase knowledge about
crime and related issues, and assist crime victims".
- National Institute of Justice,
International Center - Access to documents on transitional crime
or comparative studies on crime.
- NJ Department of Law and Public
Safety- provides statewide law enforcement and emergency response
services, and other related services.
- NJ Department of Law and Public
Safety. Division of Criminal Justice - provides a variety of functions
pertaining to the administration of criminal justice.
Juvenile
Delinquency & Juvenile Justice
Policing
- New
Jersey State Police -Information and services
from NJ State Police.
- American Police Beat - Information
about law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve, crime
and justice news.
- Community Policing Consortium
- Sources of community policing information. It helps users to find
out how to contact government agencies, communities, and law enforcement
organizations.
- Officer.com - provides police departments'
web pages; a good place to see if departments have any info on local
criminal justice issues.
Statistics
- New Jersey Uniform Crime Report
- Compilation, classification, analysis of crime
data reported by all New Jersey police agencies.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Statistics of crime related issues by Bureau of Justice Statistics,
U.S. Department of Justice.
- International Justice Statistics
- Comprehensive site of BJS publications as well as links to UN publications.
- The International Crime Victim
Survey (ICVS) - Programs of standardized sample surveys to look
a householders’ experience with crime, policing, crime prevention
and feelings of unsafety in a large number of countries.
- Justice Research and Statistics Association
- State-level agencies that coordinate, collect, and analyze criminal
justice data for policy decision makers.
- Statistics and Research Sources
from UNCJIN - Comprehensive Statistics collections.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Statistics 2000 - Data from more than 100 sources about all aspects
of criminal justice in the United States, compiled by the Utilization
of Criminal Justice Statistics Project since 1973.
- U.
S. Sentencing Commission’s Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics
- the eleventh edition, contains descriptive statistics
on the application of the federal sentencing guidelines and provides
selected district, circuit, and national sentencing data.
Law Sites
Programs
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