Research and Statistics

• Bureau of Justice Statistics ^popular (Added: 19-Nov-2001 Hits: 624)

• Data Center - Mission is to provide social justice advocates, especially the poor and people of color, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills that will help them conduct more effective campaigns. ^popular (Added: 10-Mar-2002 Hits: 400)

• The Prison Index: - Taking the Pulse of the Crime Control Industry. is the first index of statistics about our nation's criminal justice system ever published. Containing 611 facts and 17 graphs and charts, this 48-page volume presents, in black-and-white, the state of crime control in America. ^popular (Added: 17-Jun-2003 Hits: 503)

• Home Office (UK) Research, Development, Statistics - This page is a list of their research findings. (Added: 24-Nov-2001 Hits: 132)

• National Criminal Justice Referenece Service - "NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide." (Added: 6-Mar-2006 Hits: 23)

• National Institute of Justice, International Center - The global challenge of crime is our focus. Law and justice across national borders is ourinterest. Knowledge and information are our tools. The International Center is building a worldwide criminal justice community. (Added: 24-Nov-2001 Hits: 135)

• National Institute of Justice, International Center, UN Activities - Papers presented at the U.N. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice 10th Session held in Vienna, Austria (Added: 24-Nov-2001 Hits: 88)

• New York Inmate Population Statistics - for state prisoners, NYC jail inmates and county jail inmates, every quarter from 1995 to present. (Added: 2-Dec-2003 Hits: 157)

• Prison Policy Initiative - produces accurate, timely and accessible statistics and reports for use by activists, journalists and policy makers on prison and responses to crime. Our work starts with the idea that the racial, gender and economic disparities between the prison population and the larger society represent the grounds for a democratic catastrophe (Added: 7-Dec-2001 Hits: 250)

• Prison Watch - "The Prison Watch Project monitors human rights concerns, violations, and abuses of prisoners in the U.S. federal and state prison system, with a regional focus on New Jersey and New York. " (Added: 18-Sep-2005 Hits: 70)

• Prisons in PA - Pennsylvania is a leader in Prisons from the Action Center in Philadelphia (Added: 7-Sep-2002 Hits: 153)

• PrisonSucks.com - Research on the prison industrial complex. Includes an incarceration clock and an index of online studies and reports on crime control policy. (Added: 7-Dec-2001 Hits: 194)

• Racial Disparity Initiative-Council on Crime and Justice - Contains the 17 major research reports on racial disparities within the Minnesota Criminal Justice System and the Collateral consequences of the prevailing disparities. (Added: 19-Dec-2006 Hits: 16)

• Real Cost of Prisons - The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together prison/justice policy activists with political economists to create popular education workshops and materials which explore both the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, her/his family, community and the nation. (Added: 28-Nov-2003 Hits: 330)

• The Urban Institute - Justice Policy Center (Added: 19-Nov-2001 Hits: 176)

• Unlocking the Future: Detention Reform in the Juvenile Justice System - "Unlocking the Future demonstrates with strong evidence that juvenile court jurisdictions throughout the United States needlessly sweep into locked detention many young people with mental health, substance abuse and family problems—most of whom are 15 years or younger, nonviolent, and disproportionately youth of color." (Added: 16-Sep-2005 Hits: 26)