TOP PROFESSORIAL WEBSITES IN CJ (HOT DOGS)

 Prof. Bruce Hoffman's CrimeTheory.com (Ohio University)
Prof. Cecil Greek's Criminal Justice Links (Florida State)
Prof. Charles Dreveskracht's CJ Resources (Northeastern State)
Prof. Chris Eskridge's CJ Classes & More (Univ. Nebraska)
Prof. Dale Nesbary's Guide to the Internet for CJ (Oakland Univ.)
Prof. Frank Schmallenger's CJ Central (JRA-Hilton Head)
Prof. Gregg Barak's Internet Home of Criminology (Eastern Michigan)
Prof. Harald Schweizer's Global Criminal Justice Links (Fresno State)
Prof. Henry Fradella's Website (CSU-Long Beach)
Prof. James Alan Fox' Dean of Death Page (Northeastern)
Prof. James Forest's Teaching Terror Website (West Point)
Prof. Jeanne Curran's Dear Habermas (CSU-Dominguez Hills)
Prof. Jerry Ratcliffe's Intelligence-Led Policing (Temple Univ.)
Prof. Jim Thomas' Critical Criminologist Home Page (Northern Illinois)
Prof. John Fuller's Peacemaking and Crime (West Georgia)
Prof. John Scheb's Legal Studies Website (Univ. Tennessee)
Prof. Ken Mentor's Website (UNC Pembroke)
Prof. Mathieu Deflem's Sociology of Crime & Justice (South Carolina)
Prof. Matt Robinson's Justice Blind (Appalachian State)
Prof. Michael Blankenship's Home Page (Boise State)
Prof. Mike Carlie's CJ AdviseNet (Missouri State)
Prof. Patrick Jackson's Redwood Highway (Sonoma State)
Prof. Paul Leighton's Crime and Justice Page (Eastern Michigan)
Prof. Peter Reuter's Criminology and Economics Program (Maryland)
Prof. Phil Reichel's CJ Education Web Site (Northern Colorado)
Prof. Phyllis Gerstenfeld's CJ Homepage (California-Stanislaus)
Prof. Ralph Taylor's CJ Methods Web Site (Temple Univ.)
Prof. Randall Shelden's Shelden Says (UNLV)
Prof. Sam Walker's Police Accountability Page (Nebraska-Omaha)
Prof. Todd Clear's Toddclear.org (John Jay College)
Prof. Tom O'Connor's Criminal Justice MegaLinks (Austin Peay)

COMPREHENSIVE SITES FOR HARD-TO-FIND TOPICS & JUST ABOUT ANYTHING

• 150 Resources to Help You Write Faster and Better And more persuasively too.
• Australian Institute of Criminology A wealth of policy-related materials & links to other related sites.
• Adam McKee's International Encyclopedia of Justice Studies A topical arrangement of links to sites on various criminal justice topics like gun control, civil liberties, drugs, and civil liberties.
• CRIME LIBRARY.com CourtTV's unique blend of special interest topics.
• European Criminology Links A fairly complete set of schools, journals, and European resources. For an even broader view, try International Links via the United Nations - extensive information and great statistics. Also visit the World Factbook of CJ Systems for other international links, and don't forget to see Hieros Gamos for world links on the practice of law.
• Indiana University's List of CJ Resources on the Net A rather lengthy list of resources maintained by a library subject specialist at Indiana-Bloomington.
• Michigan State University's List of CJ Resources.  As good as Indiana's list, maybe better.
• Morgan Quinto Press A reform-oriented site which ranks the states in terms of where it is safest from crime.
• Prof. Bernard Hibbitt's Legal History Not too lawyer-oriented, and a good overview of law.
• RAND's Resources on safety, justice, terrorism, and more.
• Sherri Overall's Home Page is devoted to criminology and criminal justice.
• Solon's Voyage hasn't been updated for some time, but is a mega-site with plenty of links which still work. Also oriented to crimes against women and victimology is . See IAWP for policewomen history.
• UNC's Institute of Government has some interesting legal papers online.
• VOMA's Victim-Offender Mediation Links A long list of resources on mediation. Also see Victim Assistance Online for the comprehensive source of victim-witness programs.
• Web of Justice Internet Exploration Guide. Annotated links, analyses, and research.
• Zeno's Forensic Page is good as well as Reddy's Forensic Page which is huge, Scott Carpenter's page which is great, and Anil Aggrawal's page, which is also great - all dealing with forensics.

OFFICIAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATA AND FACTS

• Probably the most extensive source of information on criminal justice in the world. NCJRS is a group of clearinghouses supporting all the bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Office of Victims of Crime (OVC), and the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
• NLECTC This is the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center, home of the JUSTNET web site, which includes technology reviews on such products as Laser Dazzlers and smart guns, DNA commission studies, crime mapping & analysis, and other publications.
• The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics This is the online version of the annual SOURCEBOOK published by SUNY-Albany. Over 600 tables of data on just about any topic imaginable. Perfect tables, charts, and diagrams for importing into term papers.
• The Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research The ICPSR is a consortium of colleges and universities where researchers have archived their latest research projects. Over 500 online data collections. Good source for secondary data analysis.
• The United Nations Office of Crime and Drugs This former UNCJIN site archives documents and data from around the world.
• The World Justice Information Network A joint NIJ/Abt Associates site that is a library of news clippings from around the world.
• The State Information Authorities All states have one of these clearinghouses who do research and funnel bloc grant money.
• Criminal Justice Policy Foundation The latest facts and news.
• The National Criminal Justice Association An association that lobbies for state and local governments and utilizes research findings. Most files are viewable from within your browser.
• The National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics A non-profit organization dedicated to providing cutting-edge information. Most files are viewable from within your browser.
• Syracuse Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse Info on laws enforced and crimes handled by federal law enforcement agencies: FBI, DEA, ATF, IRS, requires password, but free sections include About the Law guide to 3,000 fed statutes.
• Uniform Crime Reports and NIBRS The UCR is published by the FBI as our "official" crime rate and is searchable by city and state. NIBRS is the new Incident-Based Reporting System.

POLICE RESOURCES

• 1-Adam-12 and Mayberry RFD Tributes to some old TV shows.
• Absea's Law Enforcement Network Rates the top 100 police sites.
• America's Dumbest Criminals The web version of the TV show.
• America's Most Wanted Criminals See who the bad guys are.
• AttorneyCop Case updates and other info.
• Becoming a Police Officer: An Insider's Guide Sample chapters of a book.
• CP Consortium for all things community policing oriented.
• COPNet, former www.copnet.org Links from the Software Alberta Society.
• COPSpot Lots of links and resources here at this site. Steadily growing.
• Cops on the Net An extensive site by the owner of a number of web rings with links to agencies by state and topic and chat opportunities. Coplink and CopsOnline also provide opportunities for interaction or discussing the latest police news.
• Crime Scene Analysis Handbook A good, solid, basic guide.
• Elsevier's LawOfficer.com An online magazine and buyer's guide
• Ex-FBI-agents.com Briefings and private investigations.
• Forensic CSI An interesting focus on all things forensic.
• GoLawEnforcement.com Useful site promoting careers
• Hi-Tech Criminal Justice Reading lists, learning resources, and more.
• Intelligence Sites This rather unusual site indexes the vast number of intelligence agencies, like the CIA, that have some connection with law enforcement.
• Law Enforcement Guide to the Internet Leolinks contains customized search engines to find any law enforcement site indexed anywhere else as well as resource links.
• Law Enforcement Officer's Search Engine A rapidly growing site with a frequently updated database for software, HTML help, chat, and just about anything else related to policing and law. A technologically sophisticated database site.
• OFFICER.COM The most popular site in law enforcement, over 3,000 hits per day, agency directories, special units & more.
• Official State Police Agency Directory A comprehensive guide to state police and highway patrol agencies as well as related links.
• Peace Officer Jobs About police work and how to get a police officer job.
• PIMA's Law Enforcement Online A growing list of over 2400 law enforcement agencies; state/county/municipal and federal maintained by a community college in Arizona. A big site worth visiting to appreciate the hard work put into it.
• PoliceCenter a news site.
• Police Chief's Internet Guide A fairly new site just starting out which also has Internet Guides for Detectives and Prosecutors. An ambitious undertaking.
• POLICE GUIDE A monster site with over 250 pages, directories, links, memorabilia, collecting and other resources.
• Police Hall of Fame Pay a visit.
• PoliceIssues Current events and news with often a humorous commentary
• Public Safety Center Dedicated to Law Enforcement, Fire, EMS, and communications professionals with a humor & graphics collection.
• Police Stressline Links, humor, counseling and a whole lot more.
• Pop911 An exchange or forum site of LEOs interested in problem-oriented policing.
• Scott's Cyber Cop Stop Human Sanitation Engineering homepage.
• The Station Links to departments, sheriffs, and law enforcement topics.
• The Flash's Home Page aka The Thin Blue Line, from California.
• The Private Investigator's Resources Extensive private eye resources and links. Also see the Virtual Gumshoe to another comprehensive find anybody site.
• University Police Resources This USC site maintains a good list of campus agencies.
• War Stories by Real Cops Makes for interesting case study.
• www.policescanner.com Live dispatch feeds and lots more.

LEGAL AND LAW-RELATED RESOURCES

• The premiere legal site that posts key documents on the Web. Resources include recent and historic Supreme Court cases, a complete copy of the U.S. Code, the Constitution, the Federal Rules of Evidence, the Rules of Criminal Procedure and a whole lot more. Highly comprehensive.

• 5-Hour Law School You can learn a lot in 5 hours.

• ALL LAW-the Lawyer's Home Page A free online service to legal and nonlegal links of interest to lawyers.

• American Bar Association This is the place to access LAWLINK, a useful index of starting points. Also makes available some State and Federal Opinions.

• Claims.com; ExpertPages.com; and Ewitness.com Experts on the Net
• Constitutional Resources on the Web An extensive set of links for historical and comparative research.
• CrimeLynx - A popular site dedicated to only the best on the web
• Criminal Defense Online A nicely done "best of" site from the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office.
• Duhaime's Law Dictionary a pretty good online legal dictionary
• FINDLAW Excellent, probably the best and most often-used search engine by lawyers; also see LAWCRAWLER, a powerful search engine that is specially designed for legal research using words and phrases.
• HIEROS GAMOS-The Comprehensive Legal Site A huge site devoted to the worldwide practice of law. Over 70,000 links, every government in the world.
• Key Cite from West Publishing Similar to WESTLAW on CD-Rom from West Publishing Company. This site charges $3.75 a search and serves the same purpose as Shepards Citations from McGraw-Hill, verifying if your case is still "good law".
• Law Guru An extensive site offering free legal advice via "Ask an Expert" along with research capability.
• Legal Messenger Lots of free legal resources.
• Legal Research Online An extensive index of resources from this Internet Service Provider.
• National Center for State Courts The place to look for State opinions.
• Lexis One Requires free registration, but goes back to 1790 Supreme Court cases, picking up where Cornell left off.
• Pretrial Law Links This association out of Florida aims to be comprehensive in this category.
• TnCrimLaw A primer-oriented excellent set of resources.
• Understanding Federal Courts A good guide, especially on being a federal juror.

INTERNET LAW LIBRARIES

• Chicago-Kent Law Links. A Law and Computers focus.
• Internet Law Library Your basic opinion search tool.
• Jurist: The Law Professor's Network Perhaps the best law site on the web, in other words, Excellent
• Virtual Law Library at Indiana University School of Law This one has been around since the Internet was born.
• The V. The V stands for Versus.com, a new commercial service which claims to have over 100,000 links. Three levels of subscription, including a free trial.

CORRECTIONS AND PRISON-RELATED RESOURCES

• CORRECTIONS CONNECTION The biggest site in corrections, constantly growing in resource coverage, with association links, and pointers to just about every state and county in the U.S. as well as a whole lot more.
• Other Side of the Wall A nicely-done site focusing on prison law and a whole lot more. See Rick's List of Prison Links for the hard-to-find topics like health and religion with state-by-state links.
• Criminal Justice Institute (Connecticut) - publishers of the Corrections Yearbook.
• NYS C.O.'s Information Page An extensive prison site maintained by a New York corrections officer and AFSCME advocate. Go here for prison news, gang info, and issues, especially union issues.
• National Institute of Corrections Resources and federal training documents.
• Prison Privatization Research This is a good site on all things privatized.
• IGC PeaceNet An online community of political activists who have amassed a collection of annotated links, including many prison-related ones.
• JailNet Somewhat the same as the ACA home page, but focused on jails.
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums Claims to be the most comprehensive source of info on sentencing laws, but questionable if they deliver on this claim.
• Death Penalty Links A fairly comprehensive source, also don't forget the Critical Criminology home page for good death penalty links, prisons, punishment, and wrongful executions, or Prof. David's Death Penalty Resources.
• Mark's Parole & Crime This site fills the void for parole sites on the web, and also contains prison, gang, serial killer, sex offender, and substance abuse links.
• True Justice Webring A bunch of sites related to correctional themes.
• Guide to Gangs and Graffiti An online book that is corrections-oriented.
• Thy Keeper's Voice An online newsletter that is corrections-oriented.
• Correctional Education Connections Click on the Detailed Site Contents to see a listing of topics and issues of interest to educators in corrections.
• Prison Issues Desk A project of the Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC), a source of news, analysis, & up-to-date statistics on prison issues.
• Prison Zone Prison photos, art, and links.
• Pen Pals in Prison Although inmates don't have Internet home pages, this site is set up for people to have e-mail forwarded to them. Kind of like a dating service.
• West Texas Community Supervision. Many programs explained.

PUBLISHERS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE TEXTBOOKS

• Academic/Butterworth Heinemann/Elsevier Security and CJ, also Forensic Science
• Allyn and Bacon CJ textbook publisher and their CJ Links Site
• American Correctional Association Some great books on corrections topics
• Anderson/LexisNexis Lots of books and readers for use as CJ textbooks
• Ashgate A few law, human rights, and penology/criminology texts
• Aspen A law book publisher, their CJ-police line acquired by Jones & Bartlett
• Ayer Co. Publishers A few reprints of classic monographs on crime topics
• Calibre Press Police Science of Survival books, also see Paladin Press
• Carolina Academic Press A growing collection of books on criminal justice
• Charles C. Thomas Publications An old, distinguished publishing house in CJ
• Copperhouse/Atomic Dog Low-cost books for training or education
• CQ Press Interesting titles on law, democracy, and courts
• CRC Press Practical books on just about any police topic imaginable
• Glencoe/McGraw Hill A line of good quality CJ textbooks
• Greenwood Publishing Group Includes Praeger Books and other criminology works
• Houghton Mifflin Texts for CJ as well as other closely related fields
• Kluwer Academic Publishers High quality books and journals from the Netherlands; owns Plenum
• LawTech Custom Publishing Off-the-shelf college textbooks
• Michie The Law-CJ division of LexusNexis
• Looseleaf Law Good police training and exam prep materials
• McGraw-Hill(Higher Ed) A popular line of CJ textbooks and their build-a-book Primis service
• Mellen Press Criminology and law titles from this UK/US publisher
• Nelson (ITP Nelson) Canada's largest publisher
• Nolo Press Famous for their affordable self-help law books and pocket guides
• Oxford University Press Old and new classics in Criminology
• Prentice Hall aka Pearson Prentice Hall; almost all their books have support pages; many CJ resources are at the CJ 2000 site, and then there's Frank Schmallenger's CJ Central, my ResearchNavigator, and PearsonChoices
• Random House They market some academic books
• Rowman & Littlefield Strong in government and policy areas
• Routledge/Taylor-Francis Group A major publisher of references and textbooks
• Roxbury A California publisher of Criminology and CJ texts, some titles available as pdf files
• Sage A really, really big time operation in the Soc/Psych/Crim field.
• Sheffield A small publisher of textbooks and supplements
• Stipes Publishing Another small publisher of textbooks
• Thomson Learning (hompage) aka ITP for International Thomson Publishing, their e-catalog is here, owners of Wadsworth, West, Gale, and WebTutor
• Transaction Publishers Extensive line of quality criminology books
• University Press of America Longtime publisher of first-time authors
• Wadsworth A big line of CJ textbooks with a CJ Resource Center
• Waveland Carrier of a line of criminal justice books
• Westview Publisher of textbooks on interesting topics

JOURNALS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE

• The University of Houston's List of Scholarly Journals Very complete
• The Virtual Library of E-journals Allows you to search for any online journal
• All Law A comprehensive list of all law journals on-line
• American Journal of Criminal Justice A Southern regional journal
• British Journal of Criminology A prestigious, international journal
• Crime & Justice: A Review of Research Good review articles
• Crime and Justice International A great read on world trends
• Criminal Justice Policy Review A little journal about policy issues
• Criminology A prestigious, ASC publication
• Ethics and Justice A new, internet journal, $20 subscription
• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Selected back issues and the current volumes
• International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences A new East-meets-West journal
• International Journal of Drug Testing A new and rapidly growing journal
• International Journal of Social Inquiry An interdisciplinary, wide-spectrum journal
• Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology A forensics journal
• Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture Film, movie, media analysis
• Journal of Digital Evidence A rapidly changing field of study
• Journal of Economic Crime Management The area of fraud management
• Journal of Forensic Science Society Another forensics journal
• Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management A focus on risk
• Journal of Injustice Interesting articles on various forms of injustice.
• Journal of International Criminal Justice An international law journal
• Journal of On-Line Law Devoted to Cyberspace Law and Internet issues
• Journal of Security Management A private security journal/newsletter
• Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, and ACJS Today House organs of ACJS
• Law and Order Magazine Browsing permitted of current issue
• On Duty Magazine A popular site for police officers
• Western Criminology Review A scholarly, peer-reviewed journal

DISCUSSION WITH OTHERS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE

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• CJUST-L A discussion group of academics, practitioners, students, and citizens on current issues such as police, court, or prison reform. To subscribe, type SUBSCRIBE CJUST-L YourName in the message area of your e-mail, leave the subject box empty.
• Forens-L A discussion group devoted to current news in forensic science. Type SUBSCRIBE FORENS-L YourName in message, leave subject blank.
• LII Bulletin The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Univ. which will send you summaries of Supreme Court decisions the day after they are handed down. Type SUBSCRIBE LIIBULLETIN YourName in message, leave subject blank.
• POLICE-L To subscribe, you should be a sworn police officer.
• PRISONS-L For correctional officers, but slightly LEO oriented. A better list is the one for Correctional Treatment or the one you email Lance Hollister about.
• UNCJIN-L The United Nations discussion group of topics related to international criminal justice. Type SUBSCRIBE UNCJIN-L YourName in message, leave subject blank.
• PSYLAW-L A discussion group for topics related to psychology and the law. Type SUBSCRIBE PSYLAW-L YourName in message, leave subject blank.
• JUSTINFO NCJRS will mail you news of recent research and grant opportunities in criminal justice if you let them know you're interested.
• Search USENET using DEJANEWS The newsgroup search engine bought out by Google. USENET used to archive all those alt- channels, and there were (and still are) hundreds of them devoted to justice. Sometimes you get good, original content, and sometimes you get people who just want to share things.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences - ACJS, the premiere organization; regionals: Midwestern, Northeastern, Southern, Southwestern, Western; sections: Minorities and Women, Police, Security/Crime Prevention
• American Society of Criminology - ASC, a premiere organization; divisions: Critical, International, People of Color, Women & Crime, Western
• American Academy of Forensic Sciences - forensic science
• American Bar Association-CJ Section - America's premiere criminal lawyers
• Academy of Behavioral Profiling - for the professionalization of criminal profiling
• American Board of Criminalists - often lists grad programs in forensic science
• American College of Forensic Examiners - offering certifications in homeland security
• American Correctional Association - new website at www.aca.org
• American Jail Association - at Corrections.com
• American Judges Association - AJA links & lectures
• American Society for Industrial Security - ASIS, security industry home page
• Association for Crime Scene Reconstruction - a small group just starting out
• Association of State Uniform Crime Reporting Programs - ASUCRP
• High Technology Crime Investigation Association - a group of specialists
• IADLEST - links to almost every state POST council or standards commission
• International Association of Chiefs of Police - their home and resource page
• International Association of Women Police - the policewoman movement since 1910
• International Association of Correctional Officers - huge site which is OICJ homepage
• International Association of Correctional Training Personnel - for trainers 
• International Association of Crime Analysts - links, a software and jobs page, see Tempe PD.
• International Association for Intelligence Education - since 2004 out of Mercyhurst
• International Association of Doctoral Law Enforcement Officers - Doc Cops; also see APAI
• International Association for Identification - a chapter page from Louisiana
• International Association of Police Planners - on the web since 1999
• International Association for the Study of Organized Crime - meets at ASC and ACJS meetings
• International Union of Police Associations - IUPA - a major police union
• International Assoc. for Property & Evidence - for inventory officers everywhere
• International Assoc. of Women Police - has the history of policewomen
• Justice Studies Association - seeks a progressive, activist social justice
• National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives - a mentoring site
• National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice - meeting announcements and newsletters.
• National Drug Enforcement Officers Association - somewhat DEA-oriented
• National Paralegal Association - also see the Federation site
• National Sheriffs' Association - a great site, and their own county-by-county linklist
• Police Executive Research Forum - partnerships for scholarly pursuits
• Society of Police Futurists International - they do long-range forecasting
• Society for Police and Criminal Psychology - Consulting psychologists and academics
• Southern States Police Benevolent Association - a big group
• U.S. Deputy Sheriff's Association - A large and growing group

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