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Criminal Justice (Graduate)

This guide supports the research needs of graduate students enrolled in Criminal Justice courses.

Criminal Justice Web Resources

Created by retired LAPD Lieutenant Raymond Foster, this website includes a link to download the "YouTube for the Criminal Justice Educator Guide." This comprehensive guide contains links to hundreds of videos organized into 19 categories.

This site is commercial, but its link goes to the legal professional site. It is a good place to start for all things legal. Start here to search the various U. S .Courts of Appeals and research its written case law by party name or court or practice area. There are also links to Cases and Codes such as the Federal Register, US Code, and US Constitution. State law resources and links to state-specific laws are searchable across dozens of popular legal topics.  The site includes user-friendly summaries of laws as well as citations and links to relevant sections of official online statutes and state codes. You can browse your state law collection by state or by legal topic or visit the official online version of your state's laws. 

NCSTL.org is a forensic research database which includes thousands of resources about forensic science & technology, the law of scientific evidence & expert witnesses, and more.

This site is a resource for crime and justice data.

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics has six sections covering characteristics of the criminal justice systems, public opinion, distribution of known offenses, characteristics of persons arrested, processing of defendants and persons under correctional supervision. As a result of the data collection process, the Sourcebook is current to 2 years behind the current year.