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Links from the book:

www.crimestatistics.org.uk
Up-to-date information on crime statistics in England and Wales.

Home Office Statistical Bulletins:
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds
Recent reports on criminal statistics and findings from the British Crime Survey. These are published periodically. (Previous reports on the BCS were published in the Home Office Research Studies series). Information on these sources can be obtained from the Home Office Research, Development and Statistics (RDS) Directorate. (Previously, crime statistics were published in the annual statistical series Criminal Statistics.)

www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs
Information on crime statistics for the USA from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice.

www.europeansourcebook.org
Information on crime statistics for European countries from the Council of Europe European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics.

Further links of interest:

United Kingdom

National Statistics:
www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=5004
This is the link to the “Crime and Justice” section of the site. Each section provides links to more specific statistics in areas such as attitudes to crime, incidences of crime, victims, offenders, terrorism and recorded crime.

“Criminal Statistics England and Wales 2000 - Statistics relating to Crime and Criminal Proceedings for the year 2000” :
www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/cm53/5312/cm5312.htm
The full text of this publication.

Home Office Research and Development Statistics:
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/bcs1.html
Provides links to the 2003/2004 British Crime Survey full text and other crime surveys carried out by the Home Office. The British Crime Survey summarises 40,000 responses of persons over 16 with a focus on attitudes to and prevalence of crime.

UK Parliament Research Papers:
www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/Research
Full texts of all recent Research Papers on subjects of current interest, compiled for MPs by the staff of the House of Commons Library.

Commonwealth

Australian Government, Australian Institute of Criminology:
www.aic.gov.au/research/corrections/stats/
This is the link to the statistics section of this site that provides links to full texts of statistical research carried out in Australia and internationally covering all aspects of crime and criminology. Australian crime facts and figures provided by the Institute can be found at: www.aic.gov.au/publications/facts/

Campbell Crime & Justice Coordinating Group:
www.aic.gov.au/campbellcj/
Hosted by the Australian Institute of Criminology conducts worldwide research on effective methods to reduce crime and delinquency or improve justice. Provides full texts of all research conducted.

Crime Research Centre, Western Australia:
www.crc.law.uwa.edu.au/
Works in conjunction with the Australian Government to provide up to date criminal statistical analysis. Contains a full text of 2003 Crime and Justice Statistics for Western Australia.

The Criminology Information Service:
www.criminology.utoronto.ca/library/
Canadian research collection of criminological material. The site has links to Crimdoc, a criminal justice database, and Juristat, a Canadian crime statistics database used as a basis for Government policy making.

The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology:
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/anzsoc
The society is devoted to promoting criminological study, research and practice in the region and bringing together persons engaged in all aspects of the field and includes links to publications, conferences and recent meetings.

Crimenet:
www.crimenet.com.au/
Launched in May 2000, CrimeNet is the world's first site to provide a combined information service on criminal records, stolen property, missing persons, wanted persons, con artists, and unsolved crimes.

United States

US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics:
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Main site for official US Statistics covering areas such as, crime and victims, offenders, courts and sentencing, law enforcement, prisons and has special sections on drugs and crime, homicide and firearms.

California Department of Justice, Criminal Justice Statistics Center:
caag.state.ca.us/cjsc/
Provides up to date statistics in such areas as arrests, prison populations and crime prevalence covering the State of California and provides comparisons with other states.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data:
www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD
Hosted by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, provides US crime and justice data dating back to 1978.

Bureau of Justice Statistics Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics:
www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
Contains a review of crime statistics in the US with sections on characteristics of the criminal justice systems, public attitudes, distribution of known offences, distribution of persons arrested, judicial processing of defendants and prisons.

International:

United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network:
www.uncjin.org/Statistics/statistics.html
Link to the statistics section of the site which contains a full text of the periodic “United Nations Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems” and links to other worldwide statistics collections.