Criminal Justice Research Guide

• Bureau of Justice Statistics 
  • Official government source for statistics on the justice system, including crime and victims, drugs and crime, criminal offenders, law enforcement, prosecution, courts and sentencing, corrections, etc.
• Death Penalty Information Center
  • ​​​​​​​Analysis and information on issues regarding death penalty with links to problems on cost, racial disparity, trends in capital punishment, executions and individual state information.

• DNA Initiative: Advancing Criminal Justice Through DNA Technology

  • Thousands of crime cases have been solved with the use of DNA which has revolutionized forensic science and the ability of law enforcement to match perpetrators with crime scenes.

• Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reports
  • Information collected from approximately 17,000 local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies. Characteristics, elements, volume, diversity and complexity of reported crime.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics- Occupational Outlook

• Criminal justice (REF KF9214.5 .C75 2006 Vol. 2)
• The U.S. justice system : an encyclopedia (REF KF8700.A68 U27 2012 vol.2)