Societal issues related to the punishment of crime (prison management, prison reform, capital punishment) and the prevention and prosecution of crime. Listings related to particular types of crime generally belong in other categories.
Seeks to bring into clear focus the racial, economic and political biases active in U.S. courts, prisons, jails and policing agencies, and to expand public opposition to the death penalty. www.quixote.org/ej/index.html
Information about the effects of a criminal record on such matters as voting rights, employment, pensions, and ability to obtain a license. www.stormloader.com/record
Links to information on financial scandals, bank frauds, money laundering, corruption, scams, and organized crime. www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/scandals
Gives a voice to criminal justice practitioners, academicians, students, crime victims, and interested citizens, covering police, courts, corrections, victims, crime causation, and the death penalty. talkjustice.com
Information about the center, with resources and details of current projects, as well as information about the 2001 Ron Wiebe Memorial Lecture and Dialogue on Restorative Justice. www.sfu.ca/crj
Not-for-profit agency devoted to raising awareness about criminal justice and crime prevention. Resource links and sale of educational products. www.yhtp.org
CJPF provides information to policy makers and the public to promote innovative ideas about criminal justice issues, including sentencing, drug policy, and police policy. www.cjpf.org
Lists publications and links on corrections, courts, crime, drugs, international crime, juvenile justice, law enforcement, research, statistics, crime victims. www.ncjrs.org
Background information and links on U.S. criminal justice policy, including issues like gun control, drug policy, and the death penalty. www.policyalmanac.org/crime/index.shtml
Provides information about peacemaking in the U.S. criminal justice system and resources useful to those in interested in alternatives to the war on crime. www.westga.edu/~jfuller/peace.html
Offers information and assistance to help bring together criminal justice agencies and ordinary citizens to make communities safer. www.communityjustice.org
The purpose of this list is to talk about crimes, criminals, and punishment. The latest news is posted to this site everyday. groups.yahoo.com/group/Crime-and-Criminals
Implements the powers and duties of the Attorney General in the presecution of New Jersey criminal matters for the administration of justice. Division encourages cooperation among all law enforcement agencies statewide. www.state.nj.us/lps/dcj/index.htm
Information about problem-solving courts, such as drug courts, community courts and mental health courts, which seek to improve case outcomes for communities and litigants. www.problem-solvingcourts.org
IRCP was founded in 1992. The intention of IRCP, The Institute for International Research on Criminal Policy, which is integrated in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Faculty of Law of Ghent University, is to conduct and promote intern www.ircp.be/uk/index.asp