Curated by the Butler Trust, the Knowledge Exchange is a place for people working in criminal justice settings to find and share resources, research, and examples of notable practice, relevant to their roles. We look out for anything that might be of interest, but this is a place for you to share things too – if you’d like to suggest something, just get in touch and we’ll take it from there. And you can keep up to date with the latest additions to the site, through our quarterly updates.
The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society.
Orion Policy Institute (OPI) is an independent non-profit think tank based in Washington D.C.
Our mission is to promote good governance, advance human rights, and improve policy through high-quality research. OPI seeks to generate practical and sustainable solutions based on multi-disciplinary, diverse, and in-depth scientific research and analysis. We address a broad range of issues including national and global security, democracy, human rights, political and economic development, peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and various other issues at the local, national, and global level. We value empirical research and adopt emerging technologies in data collection and analysis. Orion Policy Institute (OPI) is a 501(c)(3) organization, with an IRS ruling year of 2021, and donations are tax-deductible.
APO Analysis & Policy Observatory — Designed to make evaluations of Australian Government programs and services readily accessible to policymakers, this Library hosts evaluations across the full suite of policy portfolios. The Library comprises evaluations commissioned and produced by Australian Government entities and aims to improve accessibility, production and use of evaluation evidence.
This Library is sponsored by the Australian Centre for Evaluation (ACE), which aims to put evaluation evidence at the heart of policy design and decision-making, leading to better outcomes for all Australians.
FREEDITORIAL is an online platform that brings together writers and readers around the world. It offers books uploaded by users onto its website, some for download totally free (readers do not have to register and the books are available in various digital formats), and other books for sale, with downloads also available in various digital formats. Their prices are set by each writer who has uploaded their work.
Freeditorial, for compelling environmental reasons, does not publish paper books.
Freeditorial’s primary aim is to collaborate in the promotion of literature. To achieve this, it ensures that the books’ prices are not a barrier preventing readers from enjoying the marvelous words that have already been written, and continue to be written, in two wonderful languages: Spanish and English.
The Gault Center believes that a strong youth defense delivery system is a vital mechanism for ensuring that:
All children in the legal system have ready and timely access to skilled, well-resourced, well-trained lawyers.
All children are afforded full protection of their constitutional, statutory, and human rights.
All children receive legal representation that is client-centered, individualized, developmentally and age-appropriate, and free of bias.
All children have opportunities to attain their potential to become productive members of society.
For these reasons, The Gault Center believes that the youth defense bar must:
Enhance its skill, capacity, and commitment to professionalism.
Cultivate leadership to promote accountability and bring about reform in the juvenile legal system.
Build collaborations, partnerships, and community involvement to advance youth defense delivery systems.
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Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Scholarly Commons La unched to maximize open access to the scholarly works of Northwestern Law faculty, students, and affiliates and the content of Northwestern Law's six student-run journals:
Northwestern University Law Review
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Journal of Human Rights
Journal of International Law and Business
Journal of Law and Social Policy
Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
Faculty Working Papers
University Press Library Open (UPLOpen) is an ambitious effort to accelerate open access eBook publishing in the scholarly community. Launched in 2024, in response to calls from the scholarly community, UPLOpen grew organically from the success of the De Gruyter University Press Library (UPL), a program developed by academic publisher De Gruyter to make the acquisition of eBook collections more predictable and sustainable for both presses and libraries. The UPLOpen model leverages insights gained from UPL as well as from other open access eBook initiatives including TOME, Luminos, and Opening the Future.
The Youth Justice Resource Library at Emery University is a gateway to over 300 of the top juvenile justice resources from nearly 100 organizations. It’s free, searchable and curated, with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Criminological Highlights. Center for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto. A free subscription journal provides an accessible look at the most interesting, high-quality criminological research currently being published.
DataSpace is a digital repository meant for both archiving and publicly disseminating digital data which are the result of research, academic, or administrative work performed by members of the Princeton University community. DataSpace will promote awareness of the data and address concerns for ensuring the long-term availability of data in the repository.
Cambridge University Press
From Cambridge University Press: “We are delighted to announce that the Israel Law Review will be Gold open access from the 2025 Volume and that all articles accepted for publication from October 7 2024 will be ‘open access’; published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online (see the journal’s Open Access Options page for available licence options).
We have an OA option for every author: the costs of open access publication will be covered through agreements between the publisher and the author’s institution, payment of APCs from grant or other funds, or else waived entirely, ensuring every author can publish and enjoy the benefits of OA.
Please see the journal's Open Access Options page for instructions on how to request an APC waiver.
The Journal of Mass Violence Research (JMVR) aims to share rigorous, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed studies related to different facets of mass violence in the U.S. and beyond. With a focus on public research and accessibility, JMVR seeks to promote high-quality scholarship and authors, disseminate findings via articles, videos, and infographics, and generate academic and public interest in this important research area.
GreyNet International. The Grey Literature Network Service was founded in 1992. The goal of GreyNet is to facilitate dialog, research, and communication between persons and organisations in the field of grey literature. GreyNet further seeks to identify and distribute information on and about grey literature in networked environments. Its main activities include the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, the creation and maintenance of web-based resources, a combined Distribution List, The Grey Journal (TGJ), and curriculum development..
Grey Literature is a field in library and Information science that deals with the production, distribution, and access to multiple document types produced on all levels of government, academics, business, and organization in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body.
The Corruption and Crime Commission is Western Australia's leading anti-corruption body. It works to improve the integrity of the Western Australian public sector and helps public sector agencies to minimise and manage serious misconduct, and assists WA Police to reduce the incidence of organised crime..
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (The National Academies) provide independent, objective advice to inform policy with evidence, spark progress and innovation, and confront challenging issues for the benefit of society. Learn more about our history. As the operating and principal programmatic arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the National Research Council has established these guiding principles:
Our Vision: A nation and a world that rely on scientific evidence to make decisions that benefit humanity.
Our Mission: The National Academies provide independent, trustworthy advice and facilitate solutions to complex challenges by mobilizing expertise, practice, and knowledge in science, engineering, and medicine.
Our Core Values: Independence, Objectivity, Rigor, Integrity, Inclusivity, Truth
As separate operating units, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine have crafted mission, vision, and values statements informed by their members and specific to their disciplines.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement and Guiding Principles: The National Academies value diversity among our staff, members, volunteers, partners, vendors, and audiences. We recognize that talent is broadly distributed in society and that many perspectives enhance the quality of our work and drive innovation and impact. We pledge to cultivate a workplace culture and climate that promotes inclusion, belonging, accessibility, and anti-racism; upholds equity; and values the participation of all who are engaged in advancing our mission. Read the entire DEI Statement and Guiding Principles.
Trends in Organized Crime. Trends in Organized Crime offers a composite of analyses and syntheses from a variety of information sources to serve the interests of both practitioners and policy makers, as well as the academic community. It is both a stimulus to and a forum for more rigorous empirical research on organized crime. A Springer journal.
The Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) is a think tank and an educational institute devoted to the study of international migration, to the promotion of understanding between immigrants and receiving communities, and to public policies that safeguard the dignity and rights of migrants, refugees, and newcomers. CMS’s two initiatives: Democratizing Data and Catholic Immigrant Integration and sustained attention on priority populations and communities.