Public Safety & Law Enforcement Leadership: Web Sites

This is another site which collects links to many different subject areas in criminal justice. Created by a librarian at Michigan State University, it provides links grouped by topic. Many of the links also include annotations of the sites.

Created by an attorney to provide links to resources for criminal defense practitioners as well as criminal justice professionals and the community. Claiming to find "the best, not the most of the web", it provides resources covering areas such as forensics, media, politics, and policy.

This web site was created by Picture Projects with support from several non-profit organizations, including National Public Radio. It provides documentaries, statistics and education resources on the U.S. criminal justice system created by journalists, scholars, statisticians, activists, ex-offenders, students, educators, artists, and programmers.

This is a treasure trove of resources in criminal justice. It includes general Web site links, online reference sources, links to bibliographies of resources on a variety of criminal justice topics, and statistical sources.

This site provides information on this international organization whose activities focus on criminal justice, education, research and policy analysis. Links are included to other criminal justice sites and resources.

The ACLU web page includes articles on many criminal justice topics.

The official web site for this association, it provides many useful links to other web resources that cover criminal justice topics.

This site includes information on community activism and advocacy and it focuses on violent crime. It evaluates the sites to which it provides links, so only what they consider are the best resources are identified.

Information on the agency in addition to other criminal justice information, including Crime in the United States (see stats page)

Information on prisons and prisoners, penology, and resources that affect these topics, including statistics.

This is the home page for the Metropolitan Police Service, New Scotland Yard, England.

This web site provides links to crime and justice organizations worldwide which then provide information on that region/city/country.

Information on the department including research and technology, threats and protection, and the latest "threat level".

Information on the organization, its publications, and assistance on numerous topics. Their Bureau of Justice Statistics provides statistical resources on criminal justice topics.

The main page for the bureau, it provides information on the organization, its publications, and links to related sites.

A collection of clearinghouses for various government agencies. It includes many criminal justice resources which provide statistics and other information resources. This link takes you to the general site which includes news information. It also acts as a database to abstracts of government reports. These are searchable in the database National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (see "Finding Articles" section).