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Subject Index to Internet Resources in Criminology 

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Aboriginal Resources Family Violence Juvenile Justice 
Associations & Societies Female Offenders & Women Inmates Law & Government
Computer Crime Firearms Listservs
Corrections Forensics Moral Regulation
Courts Foucault Non-Governmental Organizations
Crime Prevention Gangs Police Departments/Law Enforcement Agencies
Criminal Justice Data & Statistics Homicide Prostitution
Death Penalty Human Rights Restorative Justice
Drugs Journals (Full-Text) Victims
Durkheim Journals (Selected articles, contents, abstracts, etc.) Violence Against Women/Children  

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Aboriginal Resources
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Associations & Societies
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Computer Crime
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Corrections
  • United States Sentencing Commission - The United States Sentencing Commission is an independent agency whose principal purpose is to establish sentencing policies and practices for the Federal courts, including detailed guidelines prescribing the appropriate form and severity of punishment for offenders convicted of Federal crimes. This website contains reports to Congress, sentencing guidelines, sentencing statistics by State, and information on State sentencing commissions.
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Courts
  • Courts.Net - This site has been developed to provide directory listings for courts across the U.S. 
  • Canadian Flag The Federal Court of Canada 
  • Decisions of the Federal Court are available in full text, beginning with cases from 1993. Published by the Office of the Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs. Searchable. 
  • International Court of Justice - The International Court of Justice (ICJ), also known as the World Court, is located in the Hague (Netherlands). It is the principal judicial body of the United Nations. The Court was founded in 1946 to replace the Permanent Court of International Justice. This site offers the text of the official judgments, advisory opinions, and orders which are received directly from the International Court of Justice. The decisions are published in English and French, the two official languages of the Court. 
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Crime Prevention
  • HEUNI - The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control

    • The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI) is the European link in the network of institutes operating within the framework of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme. 
    HEUNI was established to promote the exchange of information on crime prevention and criminal justice among European countries. The frame of reference is given by the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, which is formulated by the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. 
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Criminal Justice Data & Statistics
  • FEDSTATS (U.S.) - More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use. 
  • Statistics and Research Sources - United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN). Good list of links to international statistical resources.
  • Canadian Flag U of T's Finding Canadian Statistics (Crime and Justice) - IVT and PDF files available only to University of Toronto, Ryerson, and York University IP addresses
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Death Penalty

Drugs 
  • Canadian Flag Addiction Research Foundation - The Addiction Research Foundation (ARF) is one of North America's pre-eminent facilities for research into alcohol, tobacco and other drug problems. The Foundation's mission is to work with its partners to create and apply knowledge to prevent and reduce the harm associated with alcohol, tobacco and other drugs in Ontario communities.
  • Canadian Flag Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy - The Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy is a non-profit organization founded in 1993 by several of Canada's leading specialists in drug policy.
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Durkheim

Family Violence
  • Canadian Flag London Family Court Clinic - The London Family Court Clinic is a non-profit mental health agency in London, Ontario, Canada, which advocates for the special needs of children involved in the justice system as young offenders, victims of crime or abuse, or as the subjects of custody disputes. Our advocacy includes assessment, counselling, prevention services, research, dissemination of information, and training for the community.
  • Pathfinder on Domestic Violence in the United States - produced by the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture, Soros Foundation Network.

    • A pathfinder is a reference tool used to locate information on a particular topic. Resources listed in a pathfinder are organized beginning with those having a narrow focus, such as a dictionary definition of a single term, to those having a broader focus, such as a discussion of databases that enable electronic research. A pathfinder ends with a review of the most current publications on a given subject. This Pathfinder focuses on the previous 10 years within the United States only. Available resources include databases, indexes, abstracts, resource directories, bibliographies, journals, reading lists, multimedia resources, internet resources, congressional hearing information, dissertations, journals, an author index and references.
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Female Offenders & Women Inmates
  • Canadian Flag Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies/l'Association canadienne des Sociétés Elizabeth Fry - CAEFS is a federation of autonomous societies which works with, and on behalf of, women involved with the justice system, particularly women in conflict with the law. Elizabeth Fry Societies are community based agencies dedicated to offering services and programs to marginalized women, advocating for legislative and administrative reform and offering forums within which the public may be informed about, and participate in, aspects of the justice system which affect women.
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Firearms
  • Canadian Flag Canadian Firearms Centre - Department of Justice, Canada

    • The information contained in this site has been posted by the Communications Group within the Canadian Firearms Centre (CFC). As the Firearms Act moves closer to implementation, the requests for information have increased significantly at their 1-800 number. In an effort to accommodate the public, documents are systematically produced and distributed in order to keep the public informed. This site contains their most recent and accurate information.
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Forensics
  • MEDLINE - U.S. National Library of Medicine - On June 26, 1997, NLM announced that its MEDLINE database of more than 9 million references to articles published in 3900 biomedical journals may be accessed free of charge on the World Wide Web. Two Web-based products, PubMed and Internet Grateful Med, provide this access. 
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Foucault
  • HoP-L - The History of the Present Electronic Network (HoP-L). This electronic listserve arises out of the network that was formed at a meeting in London in November 1989. It exists to link researchers actively seeking to use and develop the intellectual tools and approaches proposed by Michel Foucault for the analysis of our present. Archives are kept, and the site includes a bibliography on Governmentality.

Gangs
  • NCJRS - Juvenile Justice - Gangs 
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Homicide

Human Rights
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Journals (Full-text)
Some journals available only to UT community
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Journals (Selected articles, contents, abstracts, etc.)

Juvenile Justice
  • The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) / Justice Policy Institute - This is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration as a solution to social problems. This is done through the provision of programs to persons facing imprisonment, education efforts about imprisonment and its effect on people, and technical assistance to entities wishing to establish and/or evaluate programs working with those facing imprisonment. 

    • In 1997, CJCJ formed the Justice Policy Institute, a policy development and research body which promotes efficient and sensible approaches to America's justice system. With offices in San Francisco, and Washington, DC, the Institute's national panel of advisors help to formulate, and foment progressive public policy in the area of juvenile and criminal justice. JPI conduct research, proffers model legislation, and takes an active role in promoting a rational criminal justice discourse in the electronic and print media. 
  • Canadian Flag London Family Court Clinic - The London Family Court Clinic is a non-profit mental health agency in London, Ontario, Canada, which advocates for the special needs of children involved in the justice system as young offenders, victims of crime or abuse, or as the subjects of custody disputes. Our advocacy includes assessment, counselling, prevention services, research, dissemination of information, and training for the community.
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Law & Government
  • Canadian Flag Access to Justice Network (ACJNet) - The WWW site for Canadian justice and legal information and services. The Access to Justice Network (ACJNet) opens doors to legislation, people and organizations, publications, databases and discussion forums on justice and legal issues. These resources are organized under subject headings such as: aboriginal people, crime prevention, plain language, women, and youth.
  • Canadian Flag Consolidated Regulations of Canada (Folio Views)

    • Folio Views is an environment provided for searching and reference purposes, but which is not particularly well adapted for the purposes of downloading and printing. Indexed alphabetically with expanding and collapsing chapter numbers.
  • Canadian Flag Consolidated Statutes of Canada (Folio Views)

    • Folio Views is an environment provided for searching and reference purposes, but which is not particularly well adapted for the purposes of downloading and printing. Indexed alphabetically with expanding and collapsing chapter numbers.
  • Canadian Flag Consolidated Statutes of Canada (Downloadable files)

    • This site provides quick access to Statutes and associated Regulations in text and compressed text (downloadable) formats, classified alphabetically by title or by chapter number. 
  • Legal Information Institute, Cornell University - The server offers the LII's collection of recent and historic Supreme Court decisions, its hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals and commentary on them from the liibulletin-ny, the American Legal Ethics Library, and other important legal materials -- federal, state, foreign and international. It holds the LII's e-mail address directory of faculty and staff at U.S. law schools as well as contact information on other people and organizations in the field of law. It is host to the Cornell Law Review, and offers information about Cornell Law School and the Cornell Law Library. 
  • National Institute of Justice - The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a component of the Office of Justice Programs, is the research agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. Created by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, as amended, NIJ is authorized to support research, evaluation, and demonstration programs, development of technology, and both national and international information dissemination.
  • Justice Technology Information Network (JUSTNET) - Under the auspices of the National Institute of Justice, JUSTNET is maintained by the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC), the country's most comprehensive source of law enforcement and corrections product and technology information. 
  • Canadian Flag Ontario - Office of the Attorney General - Reports & Resources (Court Statistics, Justice System Studies, Ontario Law Reform Commission, Ministry Publications)
  • Canadian Flag Status of Women Canada - Status of Women Canada (SWC) is the federal government agency which promotes gender equality, and the full participation of women in the economic, social, cultural and political life of the country. SWC focuses its work in three areas: improving women's economic autonomy and well-being, eliminating systemic violence against women and children, and advancing women's human rights. 
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Listserves
  • Canadian Flag ACJNet Mailing lists - includes acj-update, ACJNet Multiculturalism mailing list, Liste d'envoi PAJLO-L, CRIMEPREV-L, and the Victims Mailing List. 
  • HoP-L - The History of the Present Electronic Network (HoP-L). This electronic listserve arises out of the network that was formed at a meeting in London in November 1989. It exists to link researchers actively seeking to use and develop the intellectual tools and approaches proposed by Michel Foucault for the analysis of our present. Archives are kept, and the site includes a bibliography on Governmentality.
  • Canadian Flag JURINET-L : To be informed of new judgments rendered by the Supreme Court of Canada, subscribe to the jurinet-l mailing list.
  • Justice Information (JUSTINFO) Electronic Newsletter (NCJRS)
  • Canadian Flag RCJNET-L: Network for Research on Crime and Justice Listserv - The listserv is located at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and is supervised by David Horne, Executive Director.
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Moral Regulation
  • HoP-L - The History of the Present Electronic Network (HoP-L). This electronic listserve arises out of the network that was formed at a meeting in London in November 1989. It exists to link researchers actively seeking to use and develop the intellectual tools and approaches proposed by Michel Foucault for the analysis of our present. Archives are kept, and the site includes a bibliography on Governmentality.
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Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Canadian Flag Caledon Institute of Social Policy: Canada's Voice for Progressive, Practicable Social Policy - Established in 1992, the Caledon Institute of Social Policy is a leading private, non-profit social policy think tank that conducts social policy research and analysis. As an independent and critical voice that does not depend on government funding, Caledon seeks to inform and influence public and expert opinion and to foster public discussion on poverty and social policy. Caledon develops and promotes concrete, practicable proposals for the reform of social programs at all levels of government and of social benefits provided by employers and the voluntary sector. 
  • Canadian Flag Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies/l'Association canadienne des Sociétés Elizabeth Fry - CAEFS is a federation of autonomous societies which works with, and on behalf of, women involved with the justice system, particularly women in conflict with the law. Elizabeth Fry Societies are community based agencies dedicated to offering services and programs to marginalized women, advocating for legislative and administrative reform and offering forums within which the public may be informed about, and participate in, aspects of the justice system which affect women.
  • Canadian Flag CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence Everywhere Advocating Its Termination) - CAVEAT's mission is to contribute to the creation and maintenance of a just, peaceful society through public education, changes to the justice system, and ensuring the rights of victims. This can only be achieved by a significant reduction in both the number of occurrences of violence and the severity or impact of such violence.
  • Canadian Flag Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy - The Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy is a non-profit organization founded in 1993 by several of Canada's leading specialists in drug policy.
  • The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy (CRLP) - Founded in 1992 by nationally recognized reproductive rights attorneys and activists, the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy is an independent, non-profit legal organization dedicated to ensuring that all women have access to appropriate and freely chosen reproductive health services.
  • The Center on Crime, Communities, & Culture (CCCC), Open Society Institute, Soros Foundation Network - The goal of the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture is to create a better understanding of and support for effective and humane responses to criminal behavior and victimization. The Center seeks to turn the current national debate on crime into an opportunity to reinvigorate basic principles of individual rights and responsibilities, bolster community integrity, and promote social innovation. The Center works toward this goal by seeking and supporting outstanding and innovative programs in the field of criminal justice; by performing policy and research work in areas of national and international importance; and by providing academic and research fellowships to individuals committed to becoming leaders in criminal justice.
  • The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) / Justice Policy Institute - This is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration as a solution to social problems. This is done through the provision of programs to persons facing imprisonment, education efforts about imprisonment and its effect on people, and technical assistance to entities wishing to establish and/or evaluate programs working with those facing imprisonment. 

    • In 1997, CJCJ formed the Justice Policy Institute, a policy development and research body which promotes efficient and sensible approaches to America's justice system. With offices in San Francisco, and Washington, DC, the Institute's national panel of advisors help to formulate, and foment progressive public policy in the area of juvenile and criminal justice. JPI conduct research, proffers model legislation, and takes an active role in promoting a rational criminal justice discourse in the electronic and print media. 
  • Canadian Flag John Howard Society of Canada - The John Howard Society of Canada is a federation of provincial/territorial and local Societies comprised of people whose goal is to understand and respond to problems of crime, to work with people who have come into conflict with the law, to review, evaluate and advocate for changes in the criminal justice process and to engage in public education on matters involving criminal law and its application. 
  • Canadian Flag The Trillium Foundation - The Ontario Trillium Foundation was established in 1982 to ensure that a portion of the proceeds of the Ontario Lottery Corporation is directed toward social issues in Ontario.
  • Vera Institute of Justice - Working in collaboration with government, the Vera Institute designs and implements innovative programs that encourage just practices in public services and improve the quality of urban life. Vera operates the programs it designs only during their demonstration stage. When they succeed, these demonstrations lead to the creation of new government programs, the reform of old ones, or the establishment of nonprofit organizations to carry on Vera's innovations. For more than 35 years, Vera's pioneering projects and research in criminal justice and social reform have provided practical solutions to urgent problems in cities throughout the country and around the world.
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Police Departments/Law Enforcement Agencies
  • Canadian Flag Ontario Police Departments
  • Scotland & Northern Ireland
  • North England
  • Wales & South West England
  • South East England
  • Canadian Flag RCMP - Royal Canadian Mounted Police Homepage
  • other RCMP sites and e-mail addresses (by province) 
  • Government of Canada 
  • General Reference 
  • Canadian law enforcement sites
  • International sites 
  • U.S. sites
  • Educational institutions
  • Other Organizations 
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Prostitution

Restorative Justice
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Victims
  • Canadian Flag CAVEAT (Canadians Against Violence Everywhere Advocating Its Termination) - CAVEAT's mission is to contribute to the creation and maintenance of a just, peaceful society through public education, changes to the justice system, and ensuring the rights of victims. This can only be achieved by a significant reduction in both the number of occurrences of violence and the severity or impact of such violence.
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Violence Against Women/Children
  • Canadian Flag London Family Court Clinic - The London Family Court Clinic is a non-profit mental health agency in London, Ontario, Canada, which advocates for the special needs of children involved in the justice system as young offenders, victims of crime or abuse, or as the subjects of custody disputes. Our advocacy includes assessment, counselling, prevention services, research, dissemination of information, and training for the community.
  • Canadian Flag METRAC - Metro Action Committee on Public Violence Against Women and Children is a community organization that promotes the rights of women and children to live free from violence and threats of violence. METRAC's independant work is supported by Metro Toronto Council. METRACLibrary (open to the public by appointment only) has a unique collection of books, briefs, periodicals, articles, newsclippings and videos.
  • MINCAVA - the Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse at the University of Minnesota (goldstargoldstargoldstar Outstanding lists of education and training resources (including bibliographies), professional resources, links, papers and reports, etc.).
  • Canadian Flag Ontario Women's Justice Network - The Ontario Women's Justice Network is a private electronic conference newsgroup of Ontario organizations working to further women's equality. OWJNet currently operates as part of METRAC (Metro Toronto Action Committee on Public Violence Against Women and Children) and is a Toronto based organization that works on advocacy, law reform, lobbying and public education on all issues of violence against women and children.
  • Pathfinder on Domestic Violence in the United States - produced by the Center on Crime, Communities & Culture, Soros Foundation Network.

    • A pathfinder is a reference tool used to locate information on a particular topic. Resources listed in a pathfinder are organized beginning with those having a narrow focus, such as a dictionary definition of a single term, to those having a broader focus, such as a discussion of databases that enable electronic research. A pathfinder ends with a review of the most current publications on a given subject. This Pathfinder focuses on the previous 10 years within the United States only. Available resources include databases, indexes, abstracts, resource directories, bibliographies, journals, reading lists, multimedia resources, internet resources, congressional hearing information, dissertations, journals, an author index and references.
  • Canadian Flag Status of Women Canada - Status of Women Canada (SWC) is the federal government agency which promotes gender equality, and the full participation of women in the economic, social, cultural and political life of the country. SWC focuses its work in three areas: improving women's economic autonomy and well-being, eliminating systemic violence against women and children, and advancing women's human rights. 
  • Violence Against Women Resources - This site is a cooperative project of VAWGO - the Violence Against Women's Grants Office, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and MINCAVA - the Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse at the University of Minnesota. The documents available on this site include reflect the variety of issues that intervention in violence against women raises. These include provisions of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), passed in 1994, that require states, territories, and tribes to give full faith and credit to protection orders for victims of violence across their jurisdictional boundaries. Other areas of the site focus on promising practices, law enforcement, prosecution & probation, advocacy, stalking, batterer programs, child custody & protection, and research issues. 
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