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Links to general criminology websites

The American Society of Criminology
www.asc41.com
is concerned with criminology, including the etiology, prevention, control and treatment of crime and delinquency. This includes the measurement and detection of crime, legislation and practice of criminal law, and law enforcement, judicial and correctional systems.

Atlantic Monthly's Criminology Collection
www.theatlantic.com/election/connection/crime/crime.htm
features some fascinating articles on crime, criminality and government policy.

The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/anzsoc
is devoted to promoting criminological study, research and practice in the region and bringing together persons engaged in all aspects of the field. Members include practitioners, academics, policy makers and students.

The Campbell Crime & Justice Coordinating Group
www.aic.gov.au/campbellcj
is an international network of individuals rapidly disseminating systematic reviews of high-quality research conducted worldwide, on effective methods to reduce crime or improve justice. The group is hosted by the Australian Institute of Criminology.

Cecil Greek's Criminal Justice Links
www.criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks
from Florida State University' School of Criminology and Criminal Justice - comprehensive listing with an American emphasis.

Criminology & Public Policy
www.criminologyandpublicpolicy.com
is a peer-reviewed journal of criminal justice policy and practice, published by the American Society of Criminology. It carries empirically based, policy-focused articles.

Crime, Criminal Justice and the Media
www.groombridges.freeserve.co.uk
Crime, Criminal Justice and Media.htm Nic Groombridge's eclectic page includes material on CCTV and Gender, CCTV and Human Rights and CCTV as Cultural Phenomena, as well as work on sexuality and criminology.

CrimeNet
www.crimenet.com.au
is an Australian site with information on criminal records, stolen property, missing persons, wanted persons, con artists and unsolved crimes. The CrimeNet database has thousands of mostly Australian criminal records with a focus on fraud, paedophilia, sex-related crimes and violent crimes. New records are added daily.

CrimeTheory.com
www.crimetheory.com
is a comprehensive criminological education resource with sections for Learning, Research & Teaching of Theoretical Criminology.

The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
www.cjpf.org/index.html
in America is a private, non-profit educational organization that promotes solutions to criminal justice system problems. The foundation provides information about the issues in state and federal anti-crime proposals.

Criminological Theory -
home.comcast.net/~ddemelo/crime
a comprehensive web site which includes comment on Early Schools of thought; Classical Theories; Sociological Theories; and Radical, Feminist, & Conflict Theories.

The Criminology Information Service
www.criminology.utoronto.ca/library
is a Canadian research collection of criminological material, some of which is online. This web site also provides access to Crimdoc, a criminal justice database, and Juristat, the main source of Canadian crime statistics.

The Criminology Mega-Site
faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/criminology.htm
offers a reasonably comprehensive set of criminological resources including sections on Terminology, History, Motives, & Policy.

The Criminology Research Institute
www.thecriminologist.com
site is dedicated to those professions, including "police officers lawyers, penologists, forensic scientists, pathologists and members of the judiciary and the medical professions" who can bring a "cyber-unified means of discussing and debating crime to the world of law enforcement".

The Critical Criminology
www.critcrim.org
site of the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Section on Critical Criminology provides information about critical scholarship related to crime and justice, and aims to link academics with critical criminology interests.

The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Research Unit
healthsci.otago.ac.nz/division/medicine/dnschmed/dmhdru/index.html
conducts the long-running cohort study of 1,000 babies born in 1972-73. The study members are assessed at regular intervals and the age 32 assessments are now under way (2003-2005). Recent assessments have included studies in the psychosocial, behavioural medicine and biomedical research areas.

The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime
www.law.ed.ac.uk/cls/esytc/index.htm
(ESYTC) is a major study of adolescent development and offending. The ESYTC is a longitudinal study of criminal offending and anti-social behaviour among young people. It follows a group of 4,300 young people who started secondary schools in 1998. It will follow them until they are aged 30. The site is updated regularly with the latest findings from the study.

The BBC's Fighting Crime
www.bbc.co.uk/crime
site offers information about the people and organisations dedicated to the fight against crime.

The 'Girls and Violence'
www.gla.ac.uk/girlsandviolence
web site grew out of a research project at Glasgow University, Scotland. The project is a study of girls and their views about violence and violent behaviour, and explores girls' views and experiences of violence as observers, victims and/or perpetrators.

Interpol's International Crime Statistics
www.interpol.int/public/statistics/ics/default.asp
are now free of charge and published electronically. They are now updated on a country by country basis, and can be downloaded here.

The Internet Journal of Criminology
www.flashmousepublishing.com
is a free access online journal, publishing international criminology articles from many areas of expertise including the criminal justice system, crime reduction, delinquency and deviant social behaviour.

[jc2m]
www.jc2m.co.uk
is an independent, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary e-journal of international research concerned with representations of, and inter-relations between, crime and conflict in mass media and popular culture.

Jock Young's
www.malcolmread.co.uk/JockYoung
web site is not extensive but does include articles on Social Exclusion, Drugs, Models of Criminology and Policing Ethnic Minorities.

John Lea
www.bunker8.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html
is Professor of Criminology at Middlesex University. His web site contains a diverse selection of his writings and other interesting material and links.

The Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/index.html
focuses on research and opinion on the intersection of crime, criminal justice, and popular culture. It is published by the University of Albany's School of Criminal Justice.

Police 999 statistics
www.police999.com/stats
List of links relating to UK Crime Statistics compiled by the Police 999 web site.

The Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology
www.nsfk.org/index.shtml
was established by the Ministries of Justice in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It aims to further criminological research within the member countries and advise the Scandinavian governments and the Council on issues related to criminology.

The Western Criminology Review
wcr.sonoma.edu
publishes theory, research, policy, and practice in criminology and criminal justice. It reflects local national, and international concerns.

The World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/wfcj.htm
is published by the US Department of Justice. The factbook  provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of 45 countries.