Criminology: Web Resources

Annual Reviews is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society through the publication of scholarly communications and expert knowledge.

The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization whose mission is to reduce society’s reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems.

CrimeLynx® was developed in 1996 by Denver-based criminal defense attorney Jeralyn Merritt to give legal practitioners, both experienced and new to the Internet, a solid starting point from which to venture out and gather the information they need without wasting valuable time trying to locate relevant links on their own.

The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums.

Polaris is spearheading a reimagined approach to confronting, and ultimately, to ending sex and labor trafficking in North America.

High-quality and reliable content, data-driven analyses, and best practices and principles in the areas of sentencing, incarceration, racial disparity in the criminal justice system, drug policy, and felony disenfranchisement.

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics compiles data from more than 100 published and unpublished sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States, including drug enforcement, firearm possession, cyber crimes, and much more.

The FBI's UCR Program publishes annual reports of data collections in four areas: The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program, the Hate Crime Statistics Program and the National Use-of-Force Data Collection

Find global reports on a variety of crimes including homicides, smuggling, human trafficking, drugs and more.

Vera works in partnership with local, state, and national government officials 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.

ATF 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.

Today’s FBI is an intelligence-driven and threat-focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities, working around the clock and across the globe to protect the U.S. from terrorism, espionage, cyber attacks, and major criminal threats, and to provide its many partners with services, support, training, and leadership.

The BOP protects public safety by ensuring that federal offenders serve their sentences of imprisonment in facilities that are safe, humane, cost-efficient, and appropriately secure, and provides reentry programming to ensure their successful return to the community.

NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

NIC's site provides access to its library collection on corrections. Scores of issues have been identified with their own recommended list of research materials selected by NIC's information resources practitioners. Additionally, users may pose a research question and receive an answer within five days from skilled NIC resource people.

NIJ is the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science.

DOJ works to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.

ACJS is an international association established to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice through education, research, and policy analysis for both educators and practitioners.

AAFS is a multidisciplinary professional organization that provides leadership to advance science and its application to the legal system. The objectives of the Academy are to promote professionalism, integrity, competency, education, foster research, improve practice, and encourage collaboration in the forensic sciences.

The ASC is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency.

Promoting evidence-based and practitioner-informed practices and research to support correctional and forensic psychologists and other helping professionals who work with justice-involved individuals since 1954.

IALEP enhances professionalism, improves communication, and fosters cooperation among law enforcement planners and those working in criminal justice by providing information, forums, and networking and training opportunities.

With members from all facets of the criminal justice community, including law enforcement, judiciary, corrections, prosecution, defense, victim witness services, and educational institutions, as well as federal, state, tribal and local elected officials, NCJA has been a national voice in shaping and implementing criminal justice policy since its founding in 1971.