Web Links: Criminal Law
1. Gateways
Buffalo Criminal Law Centre
Criminal Justice Links
- mainly U.S. materials, but has links to UK, Europe, Canada, Australia, Africa, Asia, South America
Criminal Justice Links annotates - Canada
FindLaw: Criminal Law
World Criminal Justice Library Electronic Network
2. Canada
Canadian Criminal Justice Association
Canadian Statistics: The State: Justice and Crime
Correctional Service of Canada
Criminal Lawyers' Association
Criminology Information Service and Library (Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto)
- includes topical bibliographies and an index to more than 25,000 books, journals, government reports, statistics and other documents
Department of Justice
-office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General
Juristat (Statistics Canada)
- Juristat is a series of reports providing detailed statistics and analysis on a variety of topics and issues concerning Canada's justice system
Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption
- provides access to the Organized Crime and Corruption Bibliographic Database which is "one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliographies on organized crime and corruption in the world", a bibliography on organized crime in North America, and a list of related links
Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General
Ontario Ministry of Correctional Service
World Criminal Justice Library Network Bibliographies
3. United States
ABA Criminal Justice Section
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Centre on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Center for Sex Offender Management
- includes policy and practice briefs, a searchable "Organizations and Services" database, and a searchable "Documents" database which contains documents including abstracts, articles, books, case studies, executive summaries, fact sheets, handbooks, journals, literature reviews, monographs, newsletters, research papers, speeches, surveys, and other resources on the effective
management of sex offenders.
Cornell's Legal Information Institute: Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
- subtopics include criminal law, criminal procedure, death penalty law, juvenile justice and prisoners' rights law
- materials under each topic include federal and state statutes and decisions
Death Penalty Information Centre
- "a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment"
Department of Justice
Federal Judicial Centre
JRSA - Justice Research and Statistics Association
- includes Infobase of State Activities and Research (which covers a wide range of state justice research and publications), JRSA publications, and links to criminal justice related Web sites
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- providing links to both documents and other web sites in different areas of criminal justice
- includes NCJRS Abstracts Database which provides summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications including government reports, journal articles, books and more (1970s - present)
National Archive of Criminal justice Data
- 550 computer-readable and downloadable data collections relating to criminal justice free of charge. "NACJD routinely acquires, archives, and processes data from Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Institute of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation"
National Institute of Justice
- the research and development branch of the US Department of Justice
- it provides links to NIJ-related sites, provides access to the full text of National Institute of Justice Journal archives, NIJ publications, NIJ Director speeches archives, and NIJ News archives
U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library: Crime, Law Enforcement, and Prisons: General
- includes U.S. and some foreign and international materials
U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library: Crime, Law Enforcement, and Prisons: Sentencing and Parole
- includes U.S. and some foreign and international materials
4. Australia
Australian Institute of Criminology
- the Institute is "the national focus for the study of crime and criminal justice in Australia and for the dissemination of criminal justice information"
- provides access to unedited collections of the Institute's conference papers, statistics, and links to documents and reports, government sites, and research and university sites
5. Foreign / International
Cecil Greek's Criminal Justice Links: International Criminal Justice Resources
- Created and maintained by Dr. Cecil E. Greek at the School of Criminology & Criminal Justice, Florida State University. It is a comprehensive list of links to Web sites for criminal law, law enforcement, crime prevention & peacemaking.
Coalition for an International Criminal Court (CICC)
- "the primary NGO provider of online information about the permanent International Criminal Court." In addition to the text of UN documents related to the formation of the Court, it includes the "International Criminal Court Monitor Online" which is an electronic journal featuring articles and perspectives worldwide.
International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy
- The International Centre assists the United Nations and other multi-national institutions as one of a co-operative network of regional and research institutes in crime prevention and criminal justice
- provides access to full text of the Centre's reports, and links to other related sites
International Centre for the Prevention of Crime
- supported by the governments of South Africa, Canada, France, the Ivory Coast, the United States, the Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom, and the province of Québec
- includes an annotated bibliography on international trends in crime prevention
International Criminal Court
- includes situation, cases, rules of procedure etc.
International Criminal Law (ASIL Guide)
- an excellent guide to electronic resources for International Criminal Law
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (The Avalon Project)
Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center
- The Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) is devoted to understanding and researching the links between terrorism, transnational crime and corruption. It is located at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Virginia. Fulltext of publications and resources available.
UN Crime and Justice Information Network
- provides access to full-text crime and justice related UN documents, links to related treaties, statistics and other general sites
Web Site of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
- Provides links to official documents relating to the formation of the International Criminal court
World Justice Information Network
- registration required
- a worldwide criminal justice news monitoring tool
- "The program builds upon its predecessor, the United Nations Online Crime and Justice Clearinghouse (UNOJUST) and works in close cooperation with the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme Network."
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