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Selected Web Sites
- Criminal Justice Mega-Sites
- Amazingly extensive collection of links devoted to criminal justice.
- http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/linklist.htm>http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/linklist.htm
- Criminal Justice Links
- A collection of links from Florida State University's Criminal Justice Program
- http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks/default.htm
- FedStats
- The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
- http://www.fedstats.gov/
- FBIStats Uniform Crime Reports
- The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the United States, are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States.
- http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
- NCJRS
- Good reference source for many different kinds of criminal justice information. Covers everything from the socio-economic roots fo crime to the administration of police departments.
- http://www.ncjrs.org/
- JRSA
- The Justice Research and Statistics Association is a national nonprofit organization of state Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) directors, researchers, and practitioners throughout government, academia, and criminal justice organizations.
- http://www.jrsainfo.org/
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
- The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 600 tables. Currently this site presents Sourcebook 2002, the 30th edition.
- http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
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ETSU Departmental Web Sites
- Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
- The primary mission of the ETSU Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology is to create and to disseminate that body of knowledge generally defined within the scope of criminology, which includes the study of the breaking of laws, the making of laws, and the social and political reaction to the breaking of laws.
- http://www.etsu.edu/crimjust/
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Selected Bibliography
- Careers in Criminology
- Morgan, Marilyn
- Los Angeles, Calif. : Lowell House, 2000.
- E-Books from NetLibrary
- http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=54608
- Crime and Punishment in America
- Rabinovitch, David, Jersey, Bill, Valette, Pierre.
- Alexandria, VA: PBS Video, 1997
- SHERROD VTR 4217 (Media Center)
- The Challenge of Crime : Rethinking Our Response
- Henry Ruth, Kevin R. Reitz.
- Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2003.
- SHERROD HV9950 .R88 2003
- Double Justice: Race and Capital Punishment
- Rust-Tierney, Diann Y., Wicks, Karima.
- Medford, NY: ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 1993.
- SHERROD VTR 3506 (Media Center)
- Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior
- Bryant, Clifton D., ed.
- Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 2001.
- SHERROD Reference (no loan) HV6017.E53 2001
- Encyclopedia of Criminology and Justice.
- Dressler, Joshua, ed.
- New York: Macmillan Reference, 2002.
- SHERROD Reference (No Loan) HV6017.E52
- Imprisoning America : The Social Effects Of Mass Incarceration
- Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, Bruce Western, editors.
- New York: Russell Sage, 2004.
- SHERROD HV8705 .I455 2004
- Racial issues in criminal justice : the case of African Americans
- Free, Marvin D. Jr., ed.
- Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003
- SHERROD HV9950 .R33 2003
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