Criminal Justice: Web Resources

The CIA pages discuss the mission of the CIA, news about the agency and describes career information.

Links to criminal justice websites.

To enhance scholarly, practitioner, and public access to the materials of New Jersey law and legal history through the processes of digitization, metadata creation, and placement on a freely accessible public website. Rutgers University Library for the Center for Law & Justice is pleased to host the New Jersey Digital Legal Library.

A legislative history is a compilation of the documents which express the purpose or intent behind the passage of a particular law. The State Library compiles histories on all New Jersey laws which are general and permanent. Appropriations, temporary and executed, and repealer acts are excluded.

A collection of links for New Jersey legal resources including state law, opinions, forms, etc.

New Jersey State Library Digital Collections includes electronic New Jersey State government publications along with digital books, photographs and postcards about New Jersey but not published by state government. This database is designed to address the long-term preservation and access requirements of electronic government publications and other digital material.

Includes data from more than 100 sources about aspects of criminal justice in the United States.

This website offers information that is used by the United Nations in determining crime trends and problem areas for intervention in the form of technical cooperation.

Quality data about the nation.

USAFacts is a new data-driven portrait of the American population, our government’s finances, and government’s impact on society. A non-partisan, not-for-profit civic initiative that relies exclusively on publicly available government data sources.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office for Victims of Crime.

This website provides comprehensive statistical resources for criminology and criminal justice, including crime and victims, drugs, corrections, criminal offenders, the justice system and law enforcement.

Housed at the University of New Hampshire, the CCRC provides information about a variety of topics, including bullying, child prostitution, kidnapping, polyvictimization, missing children and exposure to domestic violence.

The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.

Published by the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, State University of New York, this online journal records research and opinion about crime, criminal justice and popular culture.

The mission of the NACJD is to facilitate research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data. The group provides data and data research guides in the areas of criminology and criminal justice.

This website is devoted to helping crime victims rebuild their lives. Information available on this site includes statistics, reports and studies, missing children, recommended reading and links to additional websites. The Stalking Resource Center located within this organization provides additional information specifically on stalking laws, statistics and a new section on legislation.

The National Center for Women & Policing, a division of the Feminist Majority Foundation, conducts and disseminates original research on the status of women in policing and the impact of gender on police operations. Included are fact sheets on gun bans and police-officer involved domestic violence.

NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy and program development worldwide. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Agency with the Department of Justice that provides training, information and assistance to federal, state and local corrections agencies.

Agency within the U.S. Department of Justice that researches crime control and justice issues. The Institute provides a special page dealing with crime mapping.

NW3C research is a resource of high-tech and economic crime information for member agencies and public and private entities. Its mission is to identify the impact of economic crime, in hopes of increasing the public's awareness of the problem and law enforcement's ability to control it. This is accomplished by conducting original research on economic crime issues and member needs, collecting and distributing statistics and economic crime information and evaluating different NW3C training programs and conferences.

Community-oriented policing site that provides training, information and research. Community policing topics include financial crimes against the elderly, gangs, homeland security, identity theft, crime and the economy, underage drinking and more. Links to additional resources are provided under specific topics.

Agency within the Department of Justice that works in partnership with the justice community to identify the most pressing crime-related challenges confronting the justice system. Its aim is to provide information, training, coordination, and innovative strategies and approaches for addressing these challenges. OJP provides grants, programs and leadership to state and local governments for crime prevention.

White House Office of Drug Control Policy establishes policies for the nation’s drug control program.

The SMART Office provides jurisdictions with guidance about the implementation of the Adam Walsh Act and tracks important legislative and legal developments related to sex offenders.

The OVW, a component of the U.S. Department of Justice, provides information on domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.

UNODC is an organization devoted to fighting illicit drugs and international crime. Information about criminal justice, prison reform and crime prevention is available through the site.

The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin is published monthly by the FBI Law Enforcement Communication Unit, with articles of interest to state and local law enforcement personnel.

The Handbook of Forensic Science has been authored and is distributed by the FBI. It provides accurate and reliable information.

The death investigation community searches for solutions for a fragmented system.

U.S. Dept. of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation

2011 update to the original 1999 publication Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator.

PBS Frontline Documentary

The National of Medicine has developed and maintains this excellent source of information about forensics.

The American Academy of Forensic Science is a professional association with a diverse membership which includes physicians, dentists, psychiatrists, attorneys, toxicologists, criminalists and educators. The association is dedicated to the advancement of forensic sciences. The site contains newsletters and proceedings.

This organization focuses on forensic psychiatry, a medical subspecialty, and deals with legal issues that involve psychiatry. The site contains valuable links and a landmark case list.

This is the website of a research laboratory at the of Texas in El Paso. The site contains a number of very good bibliographies.

The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin is published monthly by the FBI Law Enforcement Communication Unit, with articles of interest to state and local law enforcement personnel.

The Handbook of Forensic Science has been authored and is distributed by the FBI. It provides accurate and reliable information.

A list of selected Internet links to forensic science web pages.

The National Fish and Wildlife Forensic Lab is “the only crime lab in the world dedicated entirely to wildlife.”

NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. It contains a search-able database.

The Office of Forensic Science is part of the NJ State Police investigation office. The web page contains an Evidence Field Manual. The site contains a description of the operation of the lab.

The site has been compiled and is maintained by Dr. Alan Barbour, a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners. It contains links to directories of forensic expert witnesses, forensic toxicology sites, forensic sciences sites as well as education and career guidance in forensic sciences. This site may be considered highly reliable.

The National of Medicine has developed and maintains this excellent source of information about forensics.

This web resource includes over 1900 images along with text, tutorials, laboratory exercises, and examination items for self-assessment that demonstrate gross and microscopic pathological findings associated with human disease conditions.

Created by the National Forensic Science Technology Center, this website provides helpful introductions to the subfields of forensic science, including blood stains, DNA, fingerprints, firearms, drug chemistry, toxicology, CSI, evidence and eyewitnesses.

Wildlife forensic science is the application of a range of scientific disciplines to legal cases involving non-human biological evidence. Wildlife forensic cases often involve the taking of protected plant and animal species for the illegal wildlife trade, poaching of trophy and game animals, wildlife mortality caused by oil spills, animal cruelty, bio-terrorism, and the analysis of animal hairs and other trace evidence.

The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is a law enforcement agency in the United States Department of Justice that protects our communities from violent criminals, criminal organizations, the illegal use and trafficking of firearms, the illegal use and storage of explosives, acts of arson and bombings, acts of terrorism, and the illegal diversion of alcohol and tobacco products.

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime.

The CIA pages discuss the mission of the CIA, news about the agency and describes career information.

The Department of Homeland Security’s division of counterterrorism includes topics concerning law enforcement and cybersecurity.

The FBI’s web page states their mission is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.

NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Agency with the Department of Justice that provides training, information and assistance to federal, state, and local corrections agencies.

Agency within the U.S. Department of Justice that researches crime control and justice issues.

Provides information and programs that benefit victims of crime.

Community-oriented policing site that provides training, information and research.

Agency within the Department of Justice that provides grants, programs and leadership to state and local governments for crime prevention.

Component of Office of Justice Programs that supports state and local governments in the prevention of juvenile delinquency.

White House Office of Drug Control Policy establishes policies for the nation’s drug control program.

The primary role of the Secret Service is to protect the President, former Presidents, Vice Presidents and their families along with other designated persons. They are also involved with the safeguarding of financial systems.

Provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of countries around the world.

In many counties in New Jersey, Offices of the Sheriff have websites which provide specific local county information, as do local police forces in towns and cities. In many cases, the local police link is found on the municipality’s website.

The site contains the New Jersey Register and Administrative Code.

This website provides information about the Department of Corrections and its mission along with offender statistics and links to the New Jersey Register and Title 10A of the N.J. Administrative Code.

This direct link to the Division of Criminal Justice provides information about public corruption, violent crime, gang awareness and bullying.

New Jersey court information and legal decisions and opinions are available.

A legislative history is a compilation of the documents which express the purpose or intent behind the passage of a particular law. The State Library compiles histories on all New Jersey laws which are general and permanent. Appropriations, temporary and executed, and repealer acts are excluded.

New Jersey laws, pending laws and the state constitution are available

New Jersey State Library Digital Collections includes electronic New Jersey State government publications along with digital books, photographs and postcards about New Jersey but not published by state government. This database is designed to address the long-term preservation and access requirements of electronic government publications and other digital material.

A collection of links for New Jersey legal resources including state law, opinions, forms, etc.

The home page of the New Jersey State Police.

The Division of Criminal Justice and the Division of the NJ State Police are accessible through this site.

The American Civil Liberties Union defends and preserves the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

The general and permanent rules of the executive departments and agencies of the United States are available on this website.

Search for Federal and state cases and codes on this legal Internet site. Also contains information about current legal news.

The International Criminal Court (ICC), governed by the Rome Statute, is the first permanent, treaty based, international criminal court established to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. Included on this site are the structure of the court, situations and cases, and legal texts and tools.

This website offers all opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code. It also publishes important secondary sources: libraries in two important areas (legal ethics and social security) and a series of “topical” pages that serve as concise explanatory guides and Internet resource listings for roughly 100 areas of law.

The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. The Project also provides authoritative information on all justices and offers a virtual tour of portions of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of some of the justices.

Conveys information about the court as well as recent decisions of the court.

The Library of Congress' website provides the laws of the United States "in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson.”

This website contains an explanation of the court's structure and statistics of judicial business.

The enforcement of the law is the primary responsibility of the Department of Justice. It provides leadership in controlling crime, administering immigration laws and defending the legal interests of the United States.

CIS is an non-profit organization whose goal is to provide immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States. Data and information on this site includes current numbers, cost of immigration, health care, wages, jobs, poverty and illegal immigration.

The Economic Policy Institute describes itself as a nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.

Polls on social issues are available on this site.

IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. Based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, it is one of three National Poverty Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The NCCP is the nation’s leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health and well-being of America’s low-income families and children.

This organization serves as an information and resource center regarding all aspects of sexual violence. It collects and disseminates a wide range of resources on sexual violence including statistics, research, position statements, statutes, training curricula, prevention initiatives and program information.

A New York Times project about social class in America.

A PBS series about social class in America.

This site includes public opinion surveys.

SAMHDA promotes the access and use of the nation's preeminent substance abuse and mental health research data by assuring accurate public use data files and documentation to support a better understanding of this critical area of public health.

William Domhoff, UC Santa Cruz Professor, analyzes social class and power in the United States.

The Economic Policy Institute describes itself as a nonpartisan think tank that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a prosperous and fair economy.

Conservative view of poverty in America.

Academic institute located at the University of Wisconsin. The site is co-sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services and has particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest.

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) is the nation’s leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of America’s low-income families and children.