Death Penalty
Bureau of Justice Statistics - is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
Cornell LII Death Penalty Index
Court TV Law Library - This site offers Congressional statutes for which federal crimes warrant capital punishment and statistics on the death penalty. There's also a Legal Times article about why the right to habeas corpus appeals for death row inmates must be preserved.
Critical Criminology - The American Society of Criminology takes a hard look here at criminal issues in the U.S., with a particular focus on the death penalty, racial bias and prevention. Provides links to Justice Departments, publications and articles to issues in criminal justice.
Death Penalty - Features the Department of Justice's statistics from 1977 to 1995 on capital punishment: how its applied in different states; yearly number of executions and death row populations; breakdown by race, crime, etc.)
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
Justice Information Center - A service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service which provides an extensive source of information on criminal and juvenile justice.
Justice Research Association Cybrary
National Criminal Justice Information Center Corrections, Courts, Crime Prevention, Drugs, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, Research, Victims
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - responds to queries from law enforcement and corrections officials, lawmakers, judges and court personnel, and researchers. Good documents and statistics as well as summaries and full text articles.
Nation Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Database--A web version of the widely available NCJRS Document Database on CD-ROM, this database contains summaries of criminal justice literature, government reports, journal articles, books, and more.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database - This searchable NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. There are a variety of search options available.
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) - The NIJ, a component of the Office of Justice Programs, is the research and developmental agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. The Justice Technology Information Network (JUSTNET) is a service of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (http://www.nlectc.org/) which is a program of the NIJ.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - brings together data about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States. Available at this site are over 650 tables and 5 figures from more than 100 sources.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1995
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1996
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1994
Supreme Court Death Penalty Cases
Supreme Court Death Penalty Opinions after 4/90
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