Government Agencies
Part of the Department of Health and Human Services that administers federal programs affecting the positive development of children, including foster care and protective services.
This site posts extensive data about the current prison population, including breakdown by gender, ethnicity, citizenship, and type of offense. The site also contains a weekly population report and contact number for the Department of Corrections in every state.
Supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems.
Includes publications on prisons, jails and community corrections.
Conducts research about drug abuse and addiction prevention.
Federally sponsored information clearinghouse developed for users of mental health services and their families, the general public, policy makers, providers, and the media with detailed information on a variety of issues, including depression, school violence and suicide prevention.
A virtual meeting place for all organizations that want to become involved in the substance abuse prevention effort or want to enhance or expand their current substance abuse prevention activities, and other related problems such as crime, violence, academic failure, and teen pregnancy.
Links to Correctional institutions in every state.
The Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
Responsible for crime prevention, criminal justice and criminal law reform, paying special attention to combatting transnational organized crime, corruption and illicit trafficking in human beings.
Includes links and information on many issues including: prison and parole, immigration information, elder justice, safe communities, violence against women, youth violence.
Includes schedules of initiatives coming up for vote and committee hearings, records of Congressional voting and contact information for representatives.
Includes up to the minute news committee hearing schedules, Senate floor activity, and contact information for Senators.
Independent agency in judicial branch that conducts research, advises and determines crime and sentencing policies.
Non-Government Organizations
A dialogue about the effects of crime and incarceration on, not only the people involved, but whole families and communities.
Includes a Know Your Rights section for people being charged with an offense, as well as legislative updates on criminal justice-related bills.
Provides direct services, research and training to reduce reliance on incarceration.
Organization's mission is to create a better understanding of and support for effective and humane responses to criminal behavior and victimization.
Organization's mission is to strengthen individuals and families affected by incarceration through a comprehensive system of education and support.
An interdisciplinary approach dedicated to reducing recidivism by building an awareness of the relationships between correctional education and chemical dependency treatment.
Promotes less restrictive, more cost effective alternatives to imprisonment.
Provides information to the public about state and federal anti-crime proposals.
A non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information about the death penalty and its alternatives.
Provides resources for and research about families of offenders.
Staffed primarily by ex-offenders, this organization is dedicated to educating the public about prisons, criminal justice issues, and the root causes of crime.
Provides advocacy monitoring and research to promote fair and effective prisons and sentencing policies.
Educates, organizes and mobilizes a national partnership of religious and secular grassroots groups to advocate for just and humane criminal justice policies for women.
Mission is to create a society in which all persons who come into contact with human service or correctional systems are provided an environment of individual care, concern and treatment.
Helps establish reform programs in different countries and regions.
Provides resources and information for the news media and public concerned with criminal justice and sentencing issues.
Research: Statistics and Data
Includes fact sheets on criminal justice.
Spreadsheets available with aggregate data.
This is the main resource for statistics provided by the US Department of Justice.
Links to servers with detailed demographic data.
Database for federal criminal justice system, includes downloadable datasets for more in-depth information.
A clearinghouse for government information on the web, includes data from over 100 federal agencies.
Links to state analysis centers, which collect, analyze and disseminate criminal justice information on the state-level.
Source is the Department of Justice, shows major trends in crime.
Combines information from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, the National Institute of Justice, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Federally sponsored information clearinghouse for people around the country and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control.
This is the research and development branch of the Justice Department. Many reports are available online.
Extensive research and statistics on trends in juvenile crime and prevention.
Provides specific information about crime in the United States.
Research: Criminal Justice Policy
Articles and discussions on variety of civil liberties issues from death penalty to privacy rights.
Covers all aspects of the system from the criminal mind to police detention to trial and punishment.
Funds and conducts research about model systems of reform in juvenile justice.
Provides information about California's Three Strikes Law.
Promotes American public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peaceful international relations. Site includes extensive library of research, articles and monographs.
An independent non-profit research center that provides strategic research and documentation services.
A think tank on the campus of Stanford University, dedicated to research in domestic policy and international affairs.
The Hudson Institute has a Crime Control Policy Center, featuring community and neighborhood policing, new methods in juvenile justice, and police accountability.
Maintains a vast archive of social science data and analysis.
Mission is to transcend the partisanship and politicization of public policy research.
Provides states and communities with better solutions to the problems of crime and violence.
Mission is to develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.
A research and training center specializing in violence research.
Promotes effective, humane, fair and economically sound solutions to family, community and justice problems.
Enables people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence and reducing the opportunities for crime to occur.
Conducts research about police behavior, policy and procedures.
Conducts policy analysis, dedicated to citizen education.
Conducts research and policy analysis related to crime, sentencing, drugs and violence prevention. Many reports are available online.
This criminal justice site, developed by CJCJ's Senior Fellow, provides a perspective on crime, justice and related topics that is rarely provided in the mainstream media.
Extensive research on crime and justice issues, including analyses of whether current crime reduction policies are effective.
Reports are available about crime and victimization, policing, the judicial process, sentencing and corrections, and institutions for youth. There is also an extensive links page.
Juvenile Justice Resources
A national clearinghouse which encourages youth to participate in public policy decision-making on health, educational, environmental, crime and other community problems.
Funds, researches and evaluates model systems of reform in juvenile justice.
A comprehensive effort to protect minority youth in the justice system and to promote rational and effective juvenile justice policies.
The nation's oldest and largest membership-based child welfare organization that is committed to engaging people everywhere in promoting the well-being of children, youth, and their families, and protecting every child from harm.
Public education campaign created to inform policymakers, opinion leaders and the general public about the need to increase California's investment in programs to prevent violence against youth.
Serves as a resource center and "think tank" for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development.
Provides informed assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent violence and those that experience violence across the life course.
A San Francisco based non-profit that provides employment and leadership training opportunities to young women that have been involved with the juvenile justice system.
An independent policy and research center based at the University of Chicago. Conducts research about children's needs, with a special emphasis on disadvantaged children.
Provides a voice for children in America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves.
A non-profit public interest law organization that works to protect disadvantaged children across the U.S., focusing upon those who are apart from their families and living in foster care or juvenile justice systems.
A holistic children's law center, a clinical teaching program at Northwestern Law School, and a research and policy center engaged with the Juvenile Court of Cook County.
Uses research and mass communications to make the well being of children a top priority across the nation.
Membership organization that serves as a national resource on delinquency prevention and juvenile justice issues.
A national anti-crime organization led by police chiefs, prosecutors, and crime survivors.
A private non-profit organization in Atlanta, GA currently engaged in a statewide campaign to reform Georgia's Juvenile Justice System.
An interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners working together to better understand female delinquency and to identify effective prevention and reduction strategies, funded by OJJDP and supported by RTI International.
A project of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, provides comprehensive information and statistics on a range of California's juvenile justice issues.
A tool designed to assist juvenile justice practitioners, policymakers, and state agency administrators with the assessment and evaluation of programs and initiatives.
A non-profit, public interest law firm that advances the rights of children involved with public agencies by working for the reform and coordination of the child welfare, juvenile justice, and public health care systems.
Located at Columbia University's School of Public Health, the center conducts research on low-income children and families.
A collaborative program designed to develop more effective responses to the needs of youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system.
Serves as a research center and resource network for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to reshape school and community environments to meet the needs of youth in at-risk situations so these students receive the quality education and services necessary to succeed academically and graduate from high school.
Publications, resources, funding opportunities, news and more on issues of school safety and school violence prevention.
Assists state and local jurisdictions in the collection, analysis, and exchange of information on gang-related demographics, legislation, literature, research, and promising program strategies, and coordinates activities of the OJJDP Youth Gang Consortium—a group of federal agencies, gang program representatives, and other service providers.
A central source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications, research, and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens.
Extensive research and statistics on trends in juvenile crime and prevention.
A project of the Trauma Foundation, works to prevent youth violence in California.
A model project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, dedicated to enabling schools to develop a broader perspective on school safety and violence prevention.
An activist organization committed to educational justice.
Advances the well-being of adolescents and children by generating knowledge about child and adolescent development.
A non-profit, public interest law office that works to protect abused and at-risk children .
Resource for information about the zero tolerance juvenile justice policies.
Drug Policy Resources
A non-profit organization based in Southern California working to end recreational substance prohibition.
Formerly the Lindesmith Center, advocates for alternative approaches to drug policy and treatment that focus on minimizing the adverse effects of both drug use and drug prohibition.
Brings together a variety of perspectives to analyze drug policy.
Organization that promotes drug policy education.
Committed to reducing drug-related harm among individuals and communities by initiating and promoting local, regional, and national harm reduction education, interventions, and community organizing.
Created by the Family Resource Council.
Works to minimize the harm associated with marijuana.
Provides information about the many developments that affect international drug strategies.
Dedicated to ending marijuana prohibition.
Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Department within the Executive Branch focused on drug policy and information.
Brings together private and public agencies to help kids and teens reject substance abuse by influencing attitudes through persuasive information.
Provides a clear explanation of the facts and policy alternatives, and a detailed profile of public thinking about illegal drugs.
Based at the State University of New York in Buffalo, conducts research about addiction and: etiology, prevention, and treatment; social, psychological, and neurophysiological aspects; and health and medical aspects.
Campaigns and Advocacy Groups
Works to protect the rights of victims, primarily through the passage of tough on crime legislation.
Seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC).
Works to end domestic violence by developing pioneering prevention strategies in the justice, public education, child welfare, and health fields.
A state-wide California organization with the purpose of amending the California 3-Strikes law.
A gang violence prevention and intervention organization based in San Salvador and Los Angeles.
This 103-year old prison reform non-profit organization in Chicago brings about fair and effective correctional programs that are responsive to the needs of both offenders and the general community.
Movement building intermediary that engages youth and adults across issues and regions - through a collective visioning and mapping process that encourages collaboration and joint strategizing in order to develop stronger, more effective movements for democracy, equity and social change.
The only fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing the death penalty.
Advocates for prevention by developing methodology and strategy to strengthen and expand primary prevention practice.
Challenges discrimination against people of color, the poor and the disadvantaged in the criminal justice and corrections systems of the South, raises public awareness of these issues, and works with community groups and individuals to improve the criminal justice and corrections systems and develop constructive, humane, and non-violent solutions to crime.
Committed to combating the rape of male and female prisoners and to helping survivors of jailhouse rape.
Professional Associations Related to Criminal Justice
Media Sites
Provides analyses of contemporary media coverage and the controversies that surround them; a liberal media watchdog group.
The "Current Capital Punishment Legal Literature" website is a resource for keeping informed about current articles related to capital punishment law.
Daily news and extensive resource database on substance abuse and gun violence prevention.
A scholarly record of research and opinion on the intersection of crime, criminal justice, and popular culture.
A prisoner written, academically-oriented journal.
A conservative media watchdog group.
Prison Legal News is an independent 48-page monthly publication that reports, reviews, and analyzes court rulings and news related to prisoner rights and prison issues.
Human Rights Organizations
Working towards the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty looks to end the cycle of violence created by a system riddled with economic and racial bias and tainted by human error.
Extensive reports and publications on America's juvenile justice system and conditions of confinement for youth.
Juvenile Justice Discussion Forums and Online Support Groups
Reform and watchdog organization dedicated to exposing children's rights abuses and fatalities in Florida's system of criminal justice.
Excellent discussion forum focused on a variety of key issues and topics of interest. Highly recommended for parents and friends of juveniles involved
Another excellent discussion forum and online support group offering in-depth information and resources, particularly in reference to current and past
cases of youth tried in adult criminal court. Highly recommended as a resource for all persons with an interest in juvenile justice.
Official website with a two part mission: to portray the real Scott Dyleski, juxtaposed against the Scott who was demonized by the media and the prosecutor and to raise awareness of a gross miscarriage of justice by providing the public with a better understanding of what actually transpired.
