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The United States government publishes a great deal of information related to all aspects of criminal justice. Much of this is now available on the web; some significant key online publications were noted under the Statistics tab of this guide.
Some of the agency web links below link, in turn, to other subject, state, and local resources. For assistance identifying and locating web-based government information on criminal justice, as well as related publications held in paper or microfiche formats in the Pius Library government documents collection, consult a research & instruction librarian.
Digitized collection, covering 1707 to 1891, of broadsides highlighting crime and capital punishment, primarily in England, as seen through the popular press during the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. Many describe sentences handed out in the proceedings of the Old Bailey, London's central criminal court. From the broadsides collection of the Harvard Law School Library. See also: Old Bailey Online -- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913.
Includes background and pertinent documents--much of it primary source material--about well-known trials dating back to Socrates. Developed and maintained by Doug Linder, J.D. (University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Law).
Declassified FBI records of high-profile organizations and individuals. The records may not be complete and some of the referenced information may be masked because it remains classified.
Gang Research.Net
http://gangresearch.net/
Examines the nature of gangs in the United States,with emphasis on Chicago gangs. Compiled and maintained by John
Hagedorn, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago; Department of Criminal Justice).
Gun Violence Archive https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
Non-profit, non-advocacy organization that provides information on gun-related violence in the United States compiled from an array of sources. The analysis/opinion information is dated, but the statistical data is current.
From the source: "...a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice."
National nonprofit organization that "conducts and publishes policy-relevant research on justice issues" and "maintains a clearinghouse of state criminal justice activities."
