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Maguire, Morgan & Reiner: The Oxford Handbook of Criminology 4e

Substantive topics

Crime prevention and community safety
Comparative criminology
Cross-border and organised crime
Drugs, alcohol and crime
Human rights and civil liberties
Mental health
Police and policing
Probation and prisons
Restorative Justice
Sentencing
Victims
Violence
Women and crime, feminist criminology
Youth crime and justice

Crime prevention and community safety

Home Office Crime Reduction website: www.crimereduction.gov.uk/
Public Safety Canada: www.publicsafety.gc.ca/index-en.asp

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Comparative criminology

Internet links: www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/links/newlinks.html

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Cross-border and organised crime

European Union Judicial Cooperation Unit  www.eurojust.europa.eu/index.htm
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI): www.unicri.it/
UK Serious Organised Crime Agency: www.soca.gov.uk/orgCrime/index.html
Organised crime research: www.organized-crime.de/

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Drugs, alcohol and crime

Beckley Foundation: www.beckleyfoundation.org/policy/reports.html
RSA Commission report: www.rsa.org.uk/projects/drugs.asp   
Drugscope: www.drugscope.co.uk
Alcohol Concern: www.alcoholconcern.org.uk

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Human rights and civil liberties

Amnesty International:  www.amnesty.org
Human Rights Watch:  www.hrw.org/
Justice: www.justice.org.uk/
Liberty: www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/
Statewatch:  www.statewatch.org/

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Mental health

Mental Health Alliance: www.mentalhealthalliance.org.uk/
MIND: www.mind.org.uk/
RETHINK: www.rethink.org.uk/
National Personality Disorder Website: www.personalitydisorder.org.uk/index.php

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Police and policing



Home Office's police practitioner website police.homeoffice.gov.uk/
Police Service UK:  www.police.uk/
Policing and Society: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10439463.html
Police Foundation (useful links): www.police-foundation.org.uk/site/police-foundation/2006/content/links/links

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Probation and prisons

National Offender Management Service (NOMS):  www.noms.homeoffice.gov.uk/ 
Prisons.org.uk:  www.prisons.org.uk/index.html
Howard League:  www.howardleague.org
National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO): www.nacro.org.uk
Prison Reform Trust: www. prisonreformtrust.org.uk
International Centre for Prison Studies, World Prison Brief: www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/icps/worldbrief/world_brief.html
Conference Permanente Europeenne de la Probation: www.cep-probation.org
Correctional Service of Canada: www.csc-scc.gc.ca/

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Restorative Justice

Restorative Justice Online www.restorativejustice.org/
Real Justice www.realjustice.org/index.html

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Sentencing

Strathclyde University Centre for Sentencing Research:  www.law.strath.ac.uk/csr/ 
Sentencing statistics: www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs07/hosb0307.pdf
Sentencing guidelines: www.sentencing-guidelines.gov.uk/

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Victims

Victim Support:  www.victimsupport.org/
Refuge: www.refuge.org.uk
Rape Crisis: www.rapecrisis.org.uk
Childline: www.childline.org.uk/index.asp
NSPCC:  www.nspcc.org.uk/default.html

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Violence

Paul Leighton (violence links): stopviolence.com/
ESRC violence programme: www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/research/research_programmes/violence.aspx?ComponentId=9259&SourcePageId=9102
Domestic violence:  www.homeoffice.gov.uk/crime-victims/reducing-crime/domestic-violence/
Health and Safety Executive 'violence at work': www.hse.gov.uk/violence/index.htm
Homicide Research Working Group:  www.icpsr.umich.edu/HRWG/
Homicide Studies: www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?level1=900&currTree=Subjects&prodId=Journal200817

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Women and crime, feminist criminology

The Fawcett Society:  www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/
The Griffins Society:  www.thegriffinssociety.org
Smart Justice for Women:  www.smartjustice.org/  
Women in Prison: www.womeninprison.org.uk
Feminist Criminology: www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsProdDesc.nav?level1=900&currTree=Subjects&prodId=Journal201772

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Youth crime and justice

Youth Justice Board: www.yjb.gov.uk
Edinburgh studies of youth transitions and crime: www.law.ed.ac.uk/cls/esytc/

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