Criminal Justice
Organizations and Institutes

• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence--includes a literature database.
• Department of Homeland Security: United States
• Federal Government, Excluding the Postal Service -- an occupational Outlook on careers in with the feds
• FBI Home Page
• Higher Education Center Against Violence and Abuse
• Illinois State Police
• International Association of Women Police
• InterPol--an introduction to what it is, how it works, and the kinds of research it conducts. Includes an FAQ file.
• Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police & Peace Officers
• Iowa State Patrol Division
• Jobs for Police -- National police and law enforcement job listings updated daily, searchable by state.
• Legal Information Institute at Cornell-- arranged by topic
• Law enforcement careers-- This site offers employment, testing and interviewing guides for federal and state police careers.
• Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security. -- This site offers a bibliographic database and web links on issues relating to legal, operational, social, political, and economic aspects of organized crime and corruption.
• National Association of Police Organizations
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• National Police Hall of Fame
• National Tactical Officers Association -- includes communications resource for SWAT, patrol, crisis negotiations and other units that support the resolution of critical incidents, a national law enforcement information resource library and professional journals The Tactical Edge and the Crisis Negotiator.

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