From the mailbox — Uplink Archive

A collection of web resources compiled by a journalist for crime beat reporting, including links to criminal justice databases, statistics sources, crime mapping tools, and law enforcement information.

From the mailbox

On the NICAR-L mailing list, David Milliron of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently suggested these Web sites for the crime beat:

National Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Information Systems http://www.ch.search.org/

Crime Data Sources in Criminal Justice http://www.ncwc.edu/-toconnor/data.htm

Uniform Crime Reports: County Level Data http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/crime/ 1995 appears to be the latest year.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/ Data about all aspects of criminal justice in the U.S. Includes more than 600 tables in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.

Justice Research and Statistics Association Statistical Analysis Centers with Web Servers http://www.jrsainfo.org/sac/sacsites.html

Finding forensic information on Internet http://www.bart.nl/-geradts/lit.html

Crime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dtdata.htm The Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics recently updated this massive database to include selected data through 1996. Lotus spreadsheets (.wk1) are available in 55 subjects covering crimes and arrests, criminal justice, and general demography.

UN Crime & Justice Information Network Statistics and Research Sources http://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/-uncjin/stats.html

Crime Mapping Research Center http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/cmrc/ Wealth of data on crime mapping and agencies that have put their crime maps on the Internet.

Students' Report of School Crime: 1989 and 1995 http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/srsc.htm "It compares findings from the 1989 and 1995 SCS on student reports of victimization, drug availability, street gang presence, and gun presence at school."

Law Enforcement Sites on the Web http://www.ih2000.net/ira/ira2.htm Possibly the largest collection of law enforcement information on the Web.

Federal Bureau of Prisons http://www.bop.gov/ Includes directory of facilities, Fact Sheets with summary statistical data on federal prison populations by gender, race, ethnicity, age and other demographic characteristics.

David Milliron can be reached by e-mail at david-milliron@david-milliron.net