Criminal Justice
Crime Data, Research, and Policy

• Administration of Justice Research Guide-- brought to you by George Mason University, this site has links to the National Criminal Justice Reference Service's Abstracts Database and other valuable, free resources.
• Bomb Data Center Bombing Incidents -- data from the FBI about bombing incidents in 1998.  Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to open.
• Bureau of Justice Statistics -- Click here for Probation and Parole figures.
• Chicago Crime Data -- an excellent source for data on crime occurrence in the City of Chicago. Interactive maps included.
• CJ Today --textbook used for Criminal Justice 101. This interactive site is complete with quizzes and review questions. Impress your professor!
• Crime & Justice Electronic Data Abstracts--these compressed data files allow you to sort Bureau of Justice crime data in a number of ways, including by state, selected time span. It requires you to have unzip software on your computer to access.
• Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design--maintained by the National Crime Prevention Council, this site discusses how to create safer neighborhoods and cities by the examining the creation of space, its use and safety.
• Crime Statistics: a Tutorial--how to locate the data, and how to assess its validity. With a set of links to mid-to-late 90's crime data at federal, state, local, or international level.
• Crime Reports -- Enter an address, a city/state, or a zip code, and get a map of criminal activity in the area over the past weeks.
• Crime Stats -- a list of resources for crime statistics, designed for journalists, but helpful to all.
• Crime: Understanding the Issue -- The Understanding the Issue section lays out the facts and policy alternatives, while the Public Opinion section offers a detailed profile of public thinking about the issue.
• Domestic Violence Information -- from the Office of Violence against Women,  U.S. Department of Justice.
• Drug Abuse Statistics--the official information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
• FBI HomePage -- access to uniform crime reports, information on major investigations, press releases.
• Fight Crime: Invest in kids --a national anti-crime organization led by police chiefs, prosecutors, and crime survivors.
• Globalisation, Drugs, and Criminalisation: Final Research Report on Brazil, China, India, and Mexico (.pdf format) -- a 409 page report put out by UNESCO, which includes which include "Drug Trafficking and the State," "Drug Trafficking, Criminal Organisations and Money Laundering," "Social and Cultural Dimensions of Drug Trafficking," and "Methodological, Institutional and Policy Dimensions of the Research on Drug Trafficking." For the serious student.
• Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930 -- "chronicling 11,000  homicides"
• Homicides in Los Angeles, 1830-2003
• Homicides in New York City, 1797-1999 -- "this project created a data series on homicides per capita for New York City that spans two centuries. The goal was to create a site-specific, individual-based data series that could be used to examine major social shifts related to homicide, such as mass immigration, urban growth, war, demographic changes, and changes in laws."
• Iowa Uniform Crime Reporting
• Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture--available full text, 1993-present.
• Justice Information Center--Text files in Acrobat or ASCII on gangs, drugs, boot camps, community policing, more.
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data--over 500 downloadable data sets with abstracts, as well as links to criminal justice issues
• Police Departments in Large Cities -- Describes trends from 1990 to 2000 among local police departments serving U.S. cities with 250,000 or more residents and makes comparisons.
• Safety and Security Links--Brought to you by the police notebook with information on drug abuse, crime prevention, personal safety, etc.
• Sentencing Project--independent factual analysis of sentencing patterns and outcomes.
• State and Local Law Enforcement Statistics
• The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online-- brings together data about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States presented in over 600 tables from more than 100 sources.  From the Bureau of Justice.
• TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse) -- from the Research Center at Syracuse University, this database provides independent information about the law enforcement activities of federal government agencies.  Includes charts & graphs, short essays, and other statistical data.
• Western Criminology Review-- An on-line Criminal Justice Journal Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.
• Uniform Crime Reports --in pdf format. The current year's peliminary figures become available in the fall.  Includes full reports for 1995- to present.
• Violence and Crime in Cross-National Perspective, 1900-1972
  

For contact info for federal, state and local criminal justice agencies, click here. You may have to search on city and state homepages.