Online Reference - Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice & Legal Databases:
Instructions for off campus
Legal
& Criminal Justice Databases include:
Criminal
Justice Database in Proquest
Law Module in Proquest
West Law -
Click on the LAW tab to find laws
Social Science FullText
Meta Web Sites with Collection of Criminal Justice Links:
World’s Criminal Justice
Directory is hosted and updated by Pearson Prentice Hall. This web
site has international links and search capabilities to find specific
web sites. http://talkjustice.com/cybrary.asp
University of
Delaware has a comprehensive collection of criminal justice links on
their library’s web site.
http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/crjs/internet.htm
Criminal
Justice Mega Sites - This web site looks pretty silly but it has
numerous links to other educator’s web sites, online journals, legal,
list serves, bulletin boards and professional associations as well as
different criminal justice topics.
http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/linklist.htm
John Jay College
Criminal Justice Links: An excellent collection of links put
together by John Jay College librarians. Many of the links are N.Y. City
and state specific. It is
searchable.http://www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/links/index.cfm
Criminal Justice & Legal
Studies - Northeastern State University, Oklahoma. This is a huge
collection of links broken down by subject. Many links are Oklahoma and
Native American tribe specific.
http://arapaho.nsuok.edu/%7Edreveskr/
Legal Resource Center - This is
a criminal defense as well as a criminal justice web site. Billed as the
“Best not the Most of the Web”.http://www.crimelynx.com/
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Federal:
United States Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/ site covers all aspects of crime and punishment.
There are links to primary information for victims of crime, as well as
resources on terrorism, civil rights violations, domestic violence,
elder justice, youth violence, and fraud, among others.
National Criminal Justice Reference
Service (NCJRS) http://www.ncjrs.org/, a research department and
resource center. Includes free full-text publications online and print
publications for sale.
Statistical Websites
National Criminal Justice Reference
Service: Web site administered by the U.S. Dept. of Justice’s Office
of Justice Programs. The web site hosts one of the largest criminal
justice databases of abstracts as well as many sources of statistics.
http://www.ncjrs.org
Sourcebook of Criminal
Justice Statistics: Updated regularly and supported by the U.S.
Dept. of Justice. You can find statistics broken down into 6 main
categories.
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook
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Maryland Criminal Justice Links:
University of Maryland
Criminology dept. links
http://www.ccjs.umd.edu/links.htm
Maryland Law Web Sites:
*Maryland Legal Links
http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/mdgen.html
Maryland State Law Library
http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/ Links to legal information
Maryland
Code Full text with searching capability now available for the
Maryland Code and Maryland Rules of Procedure compliments of
Lexis-Nexis. This is a work in progress.
http://198.187.128.12/maryland/lpext.dll?f=templates&fn=fs-main.htm&2.0
Code of Maryland Agency
Regulations (COMAR) http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/
Maryland State Courts
http://www.courts.state.md.us/ Maryland courts, appellate opinions,
court services, publications...
Maryland State Government:
Maryland State
Government http://maryland.gov/portal/server.pt?
State And Local
Government on the Web Lots of links on this page
http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
Maryland State Police
http://www.mdsp.org/ information on prevention of crime and links to
other police associations. Statistics link is not linked yet.
Get county level crime data along with data from many other Federal
agencies at MapStats, a
feature of FedStats.
Official Directory
of State Patrol & State Police
[http://www.statetroopersdirectory.com/#Menu] This site contains a
directory of state trooper and sheriff-related Web sites for each of the
fifty United States. In addition to each state's official state police
and state government Web sites
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Baltimore County:
Baltimore County Government
http://www.co.ba.md.us/
Baltimore
County Police Department - Main web site
http://www.co.ba.md.us/Agencies/police/index.html
Links
to Statistical Profile of county areas
*
Baltimore County Police Crime Statistics - List different crimes and
includes Links to pages related to Crime statistics covering various
categories for years ranging from 1995 to the present. Includes: Crimes
by Precinct (PDF)and Index Crimes (PDF) on the Crime
Statistics page.
Get county level crime data along with data from many other Federal
agencies at MapStats, a
feature of FedStats.
Baltimore City:
Baltimore City Homepage
Baltimore City Police
Department http://www.baltimorepolice.org/ Includes online Crime
Mapping and neighborhood information with some crime reports.
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Professional Associations and Journals in Criminology:
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
(AAFS) [http://www.aafs.org/] and its professional journal, the Journal
of Forensic Sciences.AAFS Web site describes specialties in forensic
science and includes Web links under "Resources" to many of the
professional organizations and publications associated with each
specialty
American Society of Criminology
(ASC) [http://www.asc41.com/] is another practical resource for current
information. "The American Society of Criminology is an international
organization concerned with criminology ... scholarly, scientific, and
professional knowledge concerning the etiology, prevention, control, and
treatment of crime and delinquency."
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
(ACJS) [http://www.acjs.org] was established in 1963 to encourage
professionalism and scholarship in the field of criminal justice. Under
"Publications," the site offers some good Internet links to a variety of
scholarly journals.
Online Journals:
Journal
of Forensic Sciences
http://journalsip.astm.org/JOURNALS/FORENSIC/jofs_home.html This is the
internationally recognized journal of the American Academy of Forensic
Sciences.
Western Criminology Review (WCR)
[http://wcr.sonoma.edu ] is the official journal of the Western Society
of Criminology.
National
Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database (NCJRS)
[http://abstractsdb.ncjrs.org/content/AbstractsDB_Search.asp]. "contains
summaries of more than 170,000 criminal justice publications." NCJRS
Virtual Library:
[http://fulltextpubs.ncjrs.org/content/FullTextPubs.html] has a
collection of more than 7,000 full-text publications.
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