Minnesota Department of Corrections . At the Minnesota Department of Corrections, we work to transform lives for a safer Minnesota. With a focus on public safety, the well-being of approximately 4,200 employees, and the safety and security of the people committed to our custody, we prioritize strategies that hold people accountable for the offenses they commit while giving them the tools they need to succeed as they transition back to their communities. Our responsibilities and work are rooted in chapter 241 of Minnesota statutes. Under Minnesota law, we are responsible for the “care, custody, and rehabilitation” of anyone committed to the Commissioner by the courts. Our mission, structure, and work flow from this statutory directive.
Washington State Institute for Public Policy. The Washington State Institute for Public Policy (WSIPP) is a nonpartisan public research group located in Olympia, the hub of Washington State government. WSIPP is a team of multidisciplinary researchers who conduct applied policy research for the state legislature in a creative and collaborative environment.
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.
GIABA. An extensive collection and links to financial crimes. The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) is West Africa's regional body against money laundering, terrorist financing, and Proliferation Financing (ML/TF/PF). GIABA was formally established as a specialized institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS in December, 2000.
BIOMED Central. A wide range of books and articles, especially on gun violence. BMC has an evolving portfolio of some 300 peer-reviewed journals, sharing discoveries from research communities in science, technology, engineering and medicine. In 1999 we made high quality research open to everyone who needed to access it – and in making the open access model sustainable, we changed the world of academic publishing.
British Journal of Criminology. Oxford Academic and Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society is one of the world's top criminology journals. It publishes work of the highest quality from around the world and across all areas of criminology.
BJC is a valuable resource for academics and researchers in crime, whether they be from criminology, sociology, anthropology, psychology, law, economics, politics or social work, and for professionals concerned with crime, law, criminal justice, politics, and penology. In addition to publishing peer-reviewed articles, BJC contains a substantial book review section.
The National Inventory of Collateral Consequences of Conviction identifies and categorizes the statutes and regulations that impose collateral consequences in all 50 states, the federal system, and the District of Columbia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico.
Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. We are roughly 550 plus people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need.
Australian Institute of Criminology . The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is Australia's national research and knowledge centre on crime and criminal justice. The Institute seeks to promote justice and reduce crime by undertaking and communicating evidence-based research to inform policy and practice.Contains a Series: Trends And Issues and a Range of Research Reports.
NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. The Bureau is a statistical and research agency within the Department of Communities and Justice. It was established in 1969. Our aims are to:
identify factors that affect the distribution and frequency of crime;
identify factors that affect the effectiveness, efficiency or equity of the NSW criminal justice system;
ensure that information on these factors and on crime and justice trends is available and accessible to our clients.
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal of original empirical research articles by both established and emerging scholars.
The International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy is an open access, blind peer reviewed journal that seeks to publish critical research about common challenges confronting criminal justice systems around the world.
The Annual Review of Law and Social Science in publication since 2005, strives to enhance the understanding of the complex connections between law, culture, social structure, and society by focusing on social scientific studies of law and law-like systems of rules, institutions, processes, and behaviors. The current volume of this journal has been converted from gated to open access through Annual Reviews' Subscribe to Open program, with all articles published under a CC BY license
The Annual Review of Criminology is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Annual Reviews. It was established in 2018 and covers the field of criminology. Its founding co-editors were Joan Petersilia and Robert J. Sampson. As of 2021, the co-editors are Tracey L. Meares and Sampson. As of 2023, Annual Review of Criminology is being published as open access, under the Subscribe to Open mode.
Journal Of Criminal Law And Criminology. The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology is a student-run publication at Northwestern University School of Law that prints four issues annually and rests upon a century of scholarship devoted to the scientific study of criminal law and criminology.