LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Online Resources

Online Resources

ASA Style Guide Tips from OWL
Links to an overview of American Sociological Association (ASA) style and includes information about manuscript formatting, in-text citations, formatting the references page, and accepted manuscript writing style.
BJS: Bureau of Justice Statistics
Primary source for U.S. criminal justice statistics
Bureau of Prisons
Official website of the Federal Bureau of Prisons
C-SPAN Video Library
Archives of all C-span programming since 1987. Includes all congressional and committee hearings. Wonderfully indexed.
Crime in Maine: 1995 - 2017
Compiled by the State of Maine Department of Public Safety
Crime Map of Auburn/Lewiston
Community Crime Map uploads information from police records, and displays a color coded place marker for each incident.
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Formerly: Raidsonline (Regional analysis & information data sharing)
Criminal Justice Testing and Evaluation Consortium - (CJTEC)
Formerly called: Justice Technology Information Center – JTIC, and prior to that - Justice Technology Information Network - JUSTNET
Forensic links from the American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Forensics organizations, publications, and resources
Legal Information Institute: State Law Resources
Gathers, state by state, Internet-accessible sources of the constitutions, statutes, judicial opinions, and regulations for the fifty states, plus D.C., and the U.S. territories and affiliated jurisdictions.
Maine Criminal Code
The Maine Criminal Code is found in title 17-A of the Maine Revised Statutes, and crimes are defined in title 17
Maine Department of Corrections
NACJD
National archive of criminal justice data
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
NJCRS offers justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development
National Institute of Justice
NIJ is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Dept of Justice
Pants on fire
Podcast from the National Academies Press on Polygraph testing. 11 minutes. MPeg.
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Archived version from The Wayback Machine
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the U.S., displayed in over 1,000 tables
The Stanford Open Policing Project
the Stanford Open Policing Project is collecting and standardizing data on vehicle and pedestrian stops from law enforcement departments across the country, for free.
Understanding Firearm Deaths by State—and How to Reduce Them
"Gun violence is a nationwide problem. But because each state has its own unique history, people, and laws, the burden of firearm violence is not shared equally across states or population groups.
RAND researchers have analyzed the effects of several common gun policies, including laws that are more restrictive and more permissive about gun ownership, storage, and use. The result is a clearer understanding of where firearm-related deaths are concentrated and how changes to state laws might alter that picture."
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Gardner, M. (2023). Understanding Firearm Deaths by State—and How to Reduce Them. RAND. Retrieved March 07, 2023, from https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/firearm-law-effects-mortality-explorer.html
UNICRI
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute
Uniform Crime Reports
Statistics compiled by the FBI

Crash Course: Government & Politics
The entire crash course Government & Politics series - 50 Videos (Note: #18 Legal System Basics may also be useful for CRJ students)

Open Educational Resources (OER) are free online materials that anyone can access anytime.

MIT OCW Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law
"This seminar looks at key issues in the historical development and current state of modern American criminal justice, with an emphasis on its relationship to citizenship, nationhood, and race/ethnicity."
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Ghachem, M. (2014, Fall). Race, Crime, and Citizenship in American Law. MIT Open Courseware. Retrieved October 07, 2020. from https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/history/21h-319-race-crime-and-citizenship-in-american-law-fall-2014/
Research Forensic Library
"This unique library is a curated collection of publicly-accessible articles, reports, drug monographs, controlled substance notifications, historical documents, and other material relating to every discipline of the forensic sciences. New material is added daily..."
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Teitelbaum, J. (2022). About the Library. Florida International University - Research Forensic Library. Retrieved July 07, 2022, from https://forensiclibrary.org/about

Auburn Police Activities League (PAL)
The Auburn PAL Center provides educational and athletic activities for 3rd through 8th grade kids after school and during the summer, not to mention positive interaction with police officers.
The story of Auburn PAL is one that impacts the youth of our community.
As a law enforcement agency, we know that the inner-city area of Auburn is the hub for police calls for service. In fact, four years of crime data showed us that 23% of all crimes committed by youth offenders in Auburn took place within an area of less than half a square mile. 25% of all police calls for service and 28% of all youth victims were victimized in this same small area. In an effort to transform these statistics and provide positive experiences for at-risk youth, the Auburn Police Department announced the foundation of the Auburn Police Activities League (PAL).

Criminal Justice

Online Resources

Auburn Police Activities League (PAL)