LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Websites

Criminal Justice Websites

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Corrections.com
Award-winning daily news on corrections issues all over the world.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR)
An annual publication in which the FBI compiles the volume and rate of violent and property crime offenses for the nation and by state. Individual law enforcement agency data are also provided for those contributors supplying 12 months complete offense data. This report also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data. Use the new online UCR Data Tool to research crime statistics for the nation, by state, and by individual law enforcement agency.
Florida Department of Corrections
Florida's Department of Corrections website, which has information about institutions across the state.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
From criminal history records to the sexual offender database, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement provides valuable facts about criminal justice in Florida.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
The United States Department of Justice
The DOJ is your main access point to the federal government's facts and figures on all crime that effects Americans. Conduct a keyword search of the site to find information about your specific topic.

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More Criminal Justice Websites

National Institute of Justice
NIJ is the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
The BJS publishes data regarding statistics gathered from the roughly fifty-thousand agencies that comprise the U.S. justice system on its Web site.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a federal law enforcement organization within the United States Department of Justice.
CDC Injury Prevention and Control
CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) works to prevent injuries and violence, and reduce their consequences.
Crime Solutions
The Office of Justice Programs’ CrimeSolutions.gov website shapes rigorous research into a central, reliable, and credible resource to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services, and to help them integrate these findings into programmatic and policy decisions.
Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy
The Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy (CEBCP), housed within the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University, seeks to make scientific research a key component in decisions about crime and justice policies.
Pew Research Center Criminal Justice Research
A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world, including criminal justice topics.
National Institute of Health
An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health and medical research.
Innocence Project
The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal organization that is committed to exonerating wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing and to reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
Vera Institute of Justice
Vera describes its goal as "to tackle the most pressing injustices of our day: from the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, racial disparities, and the loss of public trust in law enforcement, to the unmet needs of the vulnerable, the marginalized, and those harmed by crime and violence."
Urban Institute of Justice
Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center analyzes trends and influencers in justice and public safety policies and practices
MDRC
MDRC mounts large-scale demonstrations and uses randomized controlled trials to measure the effects of social and educational policy initiatives
Office of Violence Against Women
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) provides federal leadership in developing the national capacity to reduce violence against women and administer justice for and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security is a cabinet department of the United States federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries
DHS Human Trafficking
The Department of Homeland Security's informational page on human trafficking.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Restorative Justice
The Centre for Justice & Reconciliation is a program of Prison Fellowship International. Its mission is to develop and promote restorative justice in criminal justice systems around the world.