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Web Resources
Librarians at Kutztown University have evaluated and recommend the
following websites:
- American Academy of Forensic Sciences
As a professional society dedicated to the application of science
to the law, the AAFS is committed to the promotion of education and
the elevation of accuracy, precision, and specificity in the forensic
sciences.
- American Society of Criminology
(ASC) Division on Critical Criminology and the Academy of Criminal
Justice Sciences (ACJS) Section on Critical Criminology The site
provides information about critical scholarship related to crime and
justice. The critcrim.org site is intended to link students, scholars,
and researchers with interests in critical criminology.
- Australian Institute of CriminologyThe
Australian Institute of Criminology is Australia's pre-eminent national
crime and criminal justice research agency. Based in Canberra, the
Institute plays an important role conducting timely and proactive
research on crime and criminology, and disseminating information to
provide the Australian Government with a unique knowledge base from
which to inform policy.
- Concerns of Police Survivor
Concerns of Police Survivors, Inc., also known as COPS, is a nationwide
non-profit 501(c)(3) organization providing resources to assist in
the rebuilding of the lives of survivors of law enforcement officers
killed in the line of duty as determined by Federal government criteria.
- Criminal
Justice Indiana University's site for online Criminal Justice
Resources
- Criminal Justice Institute Inc.CJI
was established in 1978 to make significant contributions to criminal
justice systems by providing consultation, research and information
dissemination services with a primary focus on prison and jail systems.
- Criminal Justice Policy
Foundation The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation is a private,
non-profit educational organization that promotes solutions to the
problems facing the criminal justice system.
- International Association of Women
Police
- National Criminal Justice Reference
Service NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice
and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program
development worldwide.
- National Institute of Corrections
NIC provides training, technical assistance, information services,
and policy/program development assistance to federal, state, and local
corrections agencies. Services are designed to help corrections professionals
meet the challenges of today's corrections environment.
- Prison Activist Resource
Center. . . the source for progressive and radical information
on prisons and the criminal prosecution system.
- The World
Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems This factbook, developed
under BJS grants, provides narrative descriptions of the criminal
justice systems of 45 countries around the world. The original 42
descriptions were completed in 1993. The latest 5 entries including
two updated country profiles were prepared in 2002 under the direction
of William McDonald Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Anthropology,
and Deputy Director, Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure, Law
Center, Georgetown University
- Welcome to the World Justice
Information Network A library of international criminal justice
links, news and publications
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