Society, Issues, Crime and Justice
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- Compares crime rates for major North American cities.
- CJPF provides information to policy makers and the public to promote innovative ideas about criminal justice issues, including sentencing, drug policy, and police policy.
- Article about Navajo traditional justice, which emphasizes peacemaking.
- Transparency International's web portal of resources crucial to key groups and individuals involved in anticorruption work and research: news, events, study courses, projects, contacts, and related links.
- Avocacy and education to reduce violence with a focus on public education, victims rights and the justice system.
- Private nonprofit, progressive, and effective criminal justice and human services agency founded in 1977.
- Lists publications and links on corrections, courts, crime, drugs, international crime, juvenile justice, law enforcement, research, statistics, crime victims.
- A site dealing with the history of the Mafia in the USA. Contents include profiles of infamous mobsters with photographs, links to other crime sites. Includes the Gambino, Gotti, and Genovese families.
- IRCP was founded in 1992. The intention of IRCP, The Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, which is integrated in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Faculty of Law of Ghent University, is to conduct and promote intern
- Crime and deviance is breaking laws or social rules (norms). Articles, discussions and links exploring crime and deviance
- Offers information and assistance to help bring together criminal justice agencies and ordinary citizens to make communities safer.
- Information about the center, with resources and details of current projects, as well as information about the 2001 Ron Wiebe Memorial Lecture and Dialogue on Restorative Justice.
- Gives a voice to criminal justice practitioners, academicians, students, crime victims, and interested citizens, covering police, courts, corrections, victims, crime causation, and the death penalty.
- Compendium of the latest federal crime statistics compiled by the White House.
- Background information and links on U.S. criminal justice policy, including issues like gun control, drug policy, and the death penalty.
- Information about problem-solving courts, such as drug courts, community courts and mental health courts, which seek to improve case outcomes for communities and litigants.
- Links to information on financial scandals, bank frauds, money laundering, corruption, scams, and organized crime.
- Works in the fields of juvenile and criminal justice and offers training, research and technical assistance.
- A group of public servants, practitioners, evaluators, analysts and academics sharing information from a research focus. Includes membership details, conference information, list of member interest areas, and newsletters.
- The purpose of this list is to talk about crimes, criminals, and punishment. The latest news is posted to this site everyday.
- Assembled by Jon Harris, criminal justice specialist at Michigan State University's library.
- Information exchange, networking and e-learning for people working in the community and criminal justice system. Includes news, press releases, job ads, publications, and discussion forum. [Registration required]
- Not-for-profit agency devoted to raising awareness about criminal justice and crime prevention. Resource links and sale of educational products.
- A collection of articles on crime from the Atlantic Monthly.
- News and resources on the history and fate of the warnings given while being arrested.
- Seeks to bring into clear focus the racial, economic and political biases active in U.S. courts, prisons, jails and policing agencies, and to expand public opposition to the death penalty.
- Information about the effects of a criminal record on such matters as voting rights, employment, pensions, and ability to obtain a license.
- Primary federal criminal investigation and enforcement agency.
- Implements the powers and duties of the Attorney General in the presecution of New Jersey criminal matters for the administration of justice. Division encourages cooperation among all law enforcement agencies statewide.
- International non-governmental organisation devoted to combating corruption. TI focuses on prevention and reforming systems.
- A comprehensive library of resources and lectures in crime, justice, criminology, and law.
- A nonprofit organization that works closely with government to improve the services that people rely on for safety and justice.
- Provides information about peacemaking in the U.S. criminal justice system and resources useful to those in interested in alternatives to the war on crime.
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