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  "id": "1998-december-from-the-mailbox",
  "slug": "1998-december-from-the-mailbox",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1998-december-from-the-mailbox.html",
  "year": 1998,
  "month": "December",
  "monthNum": 12,
  "headline": "From the mailbox",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "David Milliron",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution",
  "summary": "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.",
  "keywords": [
    "crime",
    "databases",
    "statistics"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Crime & Justice",
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Technology"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "Internet",
    "World Wide Web",
    "Lotus 1-2-3",
    "Adobe Acrobat"
  ],
  "full_text": "From the mailbox\n\nOn the NICAR-L mailing list, David Milliron of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently suggested these Web sites for the crime beat:\n\nNational Clearinghouse for Criminal Justice Information Systems\nhttp://www.ch.search.org/\n\nCrime Data Sources in Criminal Justice\nhttp://www.ncwc.edu/-toconnor/data.htm\n\nUniform Crime Reports: County Level Data\nhttp://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/crime/\n1995 appears to be the latest year.\n\nSourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics\nhttp://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/\nData about all aspects of criminal justice in the U.S. Includes more than 600 tables in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format.\n\nJustice Research and Statistics Association Statistical Analysis Centers with Web Servers\nhttp://www.jrsainfo.org/sac/sacsites.html\n\nFinding forensic information on Internet\nhttp://www.bart.nl/-geradts/lit.html\n\nCrime and Justice Electronic Data Abstracts\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dtdata.htm\nThe 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.\n\nUN Crime & Justice Information Network Statistics and Research Sources\nhttp://www.ifs.univie.ac.at/-uncjin/stats.html\n\nCrime Mapping Research Center\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/cmrc/\nWealth of data on crime mapping and agencies that have put their crime maps on the Internet.\n\nStudents' Report of School Crime: 1989 and 1995\nhttp://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/srsc.htm\n\"It compares findings from the 1989 and 1995 SCS on student reports of victimization, drug availability, street gang presence, and gun presence at school.\"\n\nLaw Enforcement Sites on the Web\nhttp://www.ih2000.net/ira/ira2.htm\nPossibly the largest collection of law enforcement information on the Web.\n\nFederal Bureau of Prisons\nhttp://www.bop.gov/\nIncludes directory of facilities, Fact Sheets with summary statistical data on federal prison populations by gender, race, ethnicity, age and other demographic characteristics.\n\nDavid Milliron can be reached by e-mail at david-milliron@david-milliron.net",
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