Bureau of Justice
Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs
The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a component of the Office of Justice Programs in
the U.S. Department of Justice, is the primary source within the United States for
criminal justice statistics.
Citizen's Crime Questionnaire
http://www.igc.apc.org/ncia/QUES.HTML
Federal Information Exchange Inc.
http://web.fie.com/fedix
Web clearinghouse dealing with federal research and education opportunities.
FEDWORLD
http://www.fedworld.gov
Find U.S. federal government websites, data, and just about anything else that the federal
government has put on the World Wide Web.
Florida State University
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
http://www.fsu.edu/~crimdo/cj.html
Maintains one of the most comprehensive set of links for criminal justice information.
Government Information Exchange
http://www.info.gov
Find U.S. federal government information from phone numbers to employment information.
If it's related to the federal government, you can probably find it here.
Infomine: Scholarly Internet Resource Collections
http://lib-www.ucr.edu/govinfo.html
A great place to begin research about anything dealing with federal, state, or local
governments.
The Institute for Law and Justice (ILJ)
http://www.ilj.org
Website of non-profit consulting organization whose " mission is to bring the best of
criminal justice research and practice to the field." Site contains on-line and
downloadable documents and links to related sites.
Justice Research and Statistics Association
http://www.jrsainfo.org
National organization of state Statistical Analysis Center directors as well as analysts,
researchers, and practitioners throughout the justice system. Much on-line data and
links to even more data available from the various states.
Mitretek Systems
http://www.mitretek.org/justice/cjiti/other/index.html
Midwest Criminal Justice Association
http://www-cj.nmu.edu/cj/mcja/
Website of this association focusing on professional and academic improvement of
Midwestern members of the association.
National Institute of Justice
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij
Sponsoring agency of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. The National
Institute of Justice is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes
the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Juvenile Justice
and Delinquency Prevention, and the Office for Victims of Crime.
National Criminal Justice Review Service
http://www.ncjrs.org
Excellent source of information and data about crime and criminal justice in the U.S.
NACJD Archive
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/nacjd/archive.html
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/home.html
National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov
Extensive collection of on-line documents relating to the U.S. and the operation of the
U.S. Government. Also lists the resources available at the National Archives.
Organized Crime: Crime Statistics
http://www.crime.org
All about crime data. What do the numbers really mean? Good description of
available information with links to data sites.
RAND (Criminal Justice topics)
http://www.rand.org
Index and abstracts of RAND's many studies concerning crime and criminal justice.
Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology
http://www.ibt.ku.dk/NSfK/
Established in 1962 by ministries of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and
Sweden to further criminological research and advise Scandinavian governments. Site
contains bibliographic of the Council's publications and links emphasizing international
criminology sites.
The SEARCH Group (The National Consortium for Justice Information and
Statistics)
http://www.search.org
Private, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving the criminal justice
system through the effective application of information and identification technology.
Some on-line reports in Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf) format.
Searching for Answers (The National Institute of Justice's Annual Report to
Congress)
http://ncjrs.org/txtfiles/nijann95.txt
On-line text of the 1995 N.I.J. report to congress.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Statistics
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook
Home of the on-line version of the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics -- the
largest compilation of criminal justice statistics available anywhere. The Sourcebook site
is run by the State University of New York at Albany, and is updated continuously as new
statistics become available.
Statistical Resources on the Web - Sociology
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stsoc.html
Full data resources available for download dealing with sociological and criminological
issues.
U.S. Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov
Good starting point for research about federal law enforcement and crime data.
Vera Institute of Justice
http://broadway.vera.org/index.html
http://www.vera.org
Website of this non-profit organization supporting criminal justice initiatives.
Site has abstracts of many of the organization's publications.
The White House's Social
Statistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/crime.html
Collection of selected data concerning crime in the U.S.
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