Criminal Justice

Provides planning and support services for the criminal justice system to promote public safety in the Commonwealth.

NIC, an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons, provides training, technical assistance, information services, and policy/program development assistance to federal, state, and local corrections agencies. Browse or search the online library.

Includes information on death penalty, drug policies, racial equality and police practices.

Contains statistics, fact sheets, news releases, cases, Amnesty International reports, and links to state, national and general sites related to the death penalty.

Contains facts, reports, news, public opinion and speeches on issues concerning capital punishment. Also includes links to related web sites.

National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC), part of the National Institute of Justice's Office of Science and Technology, provides information in 19 areas including corrections, crime mapping, forensics, and more.

SSRN's eLibrary contains over 290,000 documents and 138,000 authors. Search by title, author, abstract or keyword. Many papers include links to references and cites by other authors.