LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Relevant Websites

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Federal Agency with the "mission to protect the American people and uphold the U.S. Constitution."
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Information, links, employment opportunities, etc.
Indiana State Police
State Police force for the State of Indiana
U.S. Department of Justice
"The Office of Justice Programs is a federal agency that provides federal leadership, grants, training, technical assistance and other resources to improve the nation’s capacity to prevent and reduce crime, assist victims and enhance the rule of law by strengthening the criminal and juvenile justice systems."
U.S. Sentencing Commission
"The U.S. Sentencing Commission is an independent agency in the judicial branch that was created as part of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984."
U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy
"ONDCP leads and coordinates the nation’s drug policy so that it improves the health and lives of the American people."
Anderson Police Department
"The Anderson Police Department is a full service law enforcement agency located in Anderson, Indiana. The department offers emergency response and criminal investigations within the City of Anderson and assists law enforcement agencies at the federal, state and local level. The department has a fully trained and equipped SWAT team, Accident Investigation Team, Forensic Lab, Training Section and Community Policing Division to serve the public."
Indiana Department of Corrections
Information on correction facilities, incarcerated individual locator, careers, volunteer opportunities, and more

Community Oriented Policing Services
"The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is the component of the U.S. Department of Justice responsible for advancing the practice of community policing by the nation's state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies through information and grant resources."
Homeland Security Digital Library
"The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. It supports local, state and federal analysis and decision-making needs and assists academics of all disciplines in homeland defense and security related research. It provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy. "
National Security Archive
"Founded in 1985 by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy, the National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents ("the world's largest nongovernmental collection" according to the Los Angeles Times), leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets."
Sentencing Project
"Research and Advocacy for Reform." Policy reports and fact sheets

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
"National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide."
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
From the U.S. Department of Justice
Violence Against Women
Office of Violence Against Women. Statistics and reports from the U.S. Department of Justice.
FBI Uniform Crime Report
Annual statistical publications on crime in the United States produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies.
U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics
Extensive tabular data and analytical reports on all aspects of crime and justice in the United States.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
"Established in 1978, the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) archives and disseminates data on crime and justice for secondary analysis. The archive contains data from over 3,100 curated studies or statistical data series. NACJD is home to several large-scale and well known datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN)."
U.S. Census Data Explorer
"Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic information for small geographic areas. The Census Bureau is the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy."