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Academic Institutions for the study of criminology and criminal and
community justice.
The
American Society of Criminology 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 features some fascinating
articles on crime, criminality and government policy.
The
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology 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 produces systematic reviews
on the effects of interventions to inform criminal justice policies, with
the ultimate aim of reducing crime and increasing justice in society.
Cecil
Greek's Criminal Justice Links from Florida State
University' School of Criminology and Criminal Justice - comprehensive
listing with an American emphasis.
Criminology & Public
Policy 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:
Nic Groombridge's eclectic page on includes material on CCTV and
Gender , CCTV and Human Rights and CCTV as Cultural Phenomena, as well as
work on sexuality and criminology.
CrimeNet 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 is a comprehensive
criminological education resource with sections for Learning, Research &
Teaching of Theoretical Criminology.
The
Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
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:
Comprehensive website includes comment on Early Schools of thought;
Classical Theories; Sociological Theories; and Radical, Feminist, & Conflict
Theories.
The
Criminology
Information Service is a Canadian research collection of criminological
material, some of which is online. This website also provides access to
Crimdoc, a criminal justice database, and Juristat, the main
source of Canadian crime statistics.
The
Criminology
Mega-Site offers a reasonably comprehensive set of criminological
resources including sections on Terminology, History, Motives, & Policy.
The
Criminology Research Institute
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 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 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 (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, and will follow them until they
are aged 30. The site is updated regularly with the latest findings from the
study.
The
European
Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics is a result of the
Council of Europe's decision to provide a compendium of crime and criminal
justice data for its member states.
The BBC's
Fighting Crime site offers
information about the people and organisations dedicated to the fight
against crime.
The
'Girls and Violence'
website 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 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 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] 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 website
is not extensive but does include articles on Social Exclusion, Drugs,
Models of Criminology and Policing Ethnic Minorities.
John Lea is
Professor of Criminology at Middlesex University. His website contains a
diverse selection of his writings and other interesting material and links.
The
Journal of Criminal
Justice and Popular Culture 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: List of links relating to UK Crime
Statistics compiled by the Police 999 website.
The Scandinavian
Research Council for Criminology 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
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
is published by the US Department of Justice. The factbook provides
narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of 45 countries.
Academic
The
Australian Institute of Criminology is
the national focus for the study of crime and criminal justice in Australia
and for the dissemination of criminal justice information. The Institute
draws on information from a wide variety of sources to provide independent
policy advice.
The
Centre for Crime and
Justice Studies encourage and facilitates
debate and understanding of the complex nature of
crime-related issues. They also publish
Criminal Justice Matters.
The
Centre for Criminology at
the University of Oxford
is engaged in a range of empirical
research of central importance to criminal and penal policy.
The
Community Safety
Research Unit is based at Northumbria University. The multi-disciplinary
research Unit promotes research, development and learning in community
safety and criminology. It aims to inform policy and debate, and to
contribute to good practice in community safety and crime reduction.
The
Criminology and
Socio-Legal Research Unit at Glasgow University has research strengths
in the areas of gender, crime and criminal justice, violence against women,
young people and crime, female offenders and violence.
The
Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence aims to
investigate the roots of political violence, to develop a body of theory
spanning its various disparate elements, and to study the impact of
violence, and responses to it, at societal, governmental, and international
levels.
The
International Centre for Prison Studies in King's College, University of
London, is independent of governmental and intergovernmental agencies. It
aims to help develop appropriate policies on imprisonment.
The
Institute of
Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth is the UK's
largest provider of Higher Educational course programmes for the Police and
other criminal justice agencies. They
are committed to quality and diversity,
coupled with a value-base which prioritises human rights, good governance
and professional standards in criminal justice.
The
Institute of Criminology (Cape Town) is a research unit linked to the
Department of Criminal Justice, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town. The
Institute's aim is to initiate, co-ordinate and develop research and
extension services in the broad field of criminology
The
Institute of Criminology
(Sydney) is part of the University of Sydney, Australia. It is dedicated to
public education . Its primary functions are teaching, research,
publications and public education on criminal justice issues.
The
Jill Dando Institute of Crime
Science is the first in the world devoted specifically to reducing
crime. It does this through teaching, research, public policy analysis and
by the dissemination of evidence-based information on crime reduction.
The
Kent Crime and Justice Centre is
based at the University of Kent at Canterbury. The Centre aims to support
research and teaching in criminology and criminal justice and work
collaboratively with national and regional criminal justice agencies to
advance knowledge and understanding of crime and
criminal justice and their impact on individuals and communities.
The
Korean Institute of
Criminology aims to scientifically analyse criminal issues to assist in
developing and formulating criminal justice policies in Korea.
The
Mannheim Centre
for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice is a multidisciplinary
centre incorporating staff from across the London School of Economics. The
Centre is one of the largest criminological groupings in Europe. It provides
teaching, research, and conferences, seminars and public events, including
the Mannheim/British Society of Criminology seminar series.
The
University of Leicester's Scarman
Centre has expertise in a number of criminological areas including
policing, public disorder, crime & punishment, racism & ethnicity, and crime
prevention. From January 2004, the Centre was renamed the Department of
Criminology.
The
University of
Teesside was one of the first universities in the UK to introduce an
undergraduate criminology degree. It is prominent in both teaching and
research in criminology.
The
University of Tuebingen's
Institute of Criminology
has a superb, wide-ranging list of international criminal justice links on
its website.
The University of Luton's
Vauxhall Centre
or the Study of Crime
undertakes applied criminological research in the areas of youth crime,
youth justice, policing and community safety. |
