American Journal of Sociology
(AJS)
The Center for the Study of Group Processes (U of Iowa)
The Gender, Work and Family Network website for the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics
Iowa-Iceland Cooperative Network
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
- Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interaction (SSSI).- Qualitative and
interactionist research; includes relevant links.
- Sociological Research Online
- Sociological Research Online publishes high quality applied
sociology, focusing on theoretical, empirical and methodological discussions
which engage with current political, cultural and intellectual topics
and debates; issues available online.
- Universal Codex for the Social Sciences -.Comprehensive collection of links to sites for many topics; includes research tools, stat sites, government sites, library catalogs, and almost everything else.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics -.Stats on crimes
and victims, offenders, law enforcement, prosecution, courts and sentencing,
corrections, expenditure and employment, and more; data available for
download; includes data from other sources.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Statistics -.Stats on characteristics
and attitudes toward CJS, nature and distribution of known offenses,
characteristics and distribution of persons arrested, judicial processing
of defendants, and persons under correctional supervision.
- U.S.
Census Bureau -.Provides census
stats as well as other official statistics.
- U.S. Census Data Extraction
Service (DES) -.Create and extract
your own data subset from the 1990 US Census.
- UNCJIN -- Datasets
-.Data sets from the UN World Crime
Surveys- trends and operations of CJS; SPSS formats available.
- United Nations Crime and Justice
Information Network -.Stats and info
on different countries around the world; includes UN profiles on each
country's criminal justice systems and law.
- Universal Codex for the Social
Sciences -.Comprehensive collection
of links to sites for a huge list of topics; includes research tools,
stat sites, government sites, library catalogs.
- University of California San
Diego- Social Science Data on the Internet
-.Search engine for a collection
of at least 768 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical
data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses
and more.
• Law & Government Resources
FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources -.Legal subject index, law schools, legal associations and organizations, consultants and experts, law firms and info and materials, law reviews, etc.; includes a search engine, cases and codes, federal and state government resources, international resources, reference material, lawyers, legal practice.
LawMarks -.Legal Resource Database containing links and information about an impressive list of topics; includes a link to Webster's Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, and many other references.
Selected Historic Decisions of the Supreme Court -.Cornell University's listing or decisions; most are available online; if not, links are provided for other sites.
Gopher List of Constitutions -.List of constitutions for several countries around the globe.
Government Information Sharing Project -.Data on demographics, economics, education, and several other areas, including crime, for the US and other countries.
NYU List of Sociolegal Resources .-.Links to academic sites, executive branch, international law, judicial branch, legal research, and legislative branch sites.
- Yahoo!
- Government:Law
• Criminology and Criminological Institutes
University of Iowa Department of Sociology -.Main Page.
World Directory of Criminological Institutes - Listings of Crim Centers in 74 countries around the
world.
•
Associations and Societies Online
Law & Society Association -.Contains bibliography of journal, newsletter, information about the association and graduate student workshops, and more.
The American Society of Criminology -.Links to sites regarding general criminal justice, international criminal justice, courts, juvenile justice, corrections, police, white collar crime, drugs, government, and information about newsletters and Listservs of interest.
The Critical Criminology (American Society of Criminology) Division .- Info on the death penalty, prisons, punishment, prisoner statistics.
The Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK)--.Provides information about the SLS; includes newsletter and directory of members.
The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace
Law and Policy -.Exists only in cyberspace;
examines legal and policy issues in cyberspace, cyberspace law, and also
has a journal; all issues available online.
•
Law & Crime Journals Online
USC Law School and Law Library's List of Journals and Periodicals on the Web.- An impressive list of journals available on the web; includes reviews and basic explanations of each journal.
NewJour--.Another general list of online journals and newsletters; around 4,000 items to date.
Cornell Law Review Page -.Contains an excellent list of law journals on the web.
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies -.a faculty-edited, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal focusing on the intersections of global and domestic legal regimes, markets, politics, technologies, and cultures.
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture -.Bi-monthly journal published by the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, State University of New York; all volumes online.
International Criminal Justice Online - .University of Illinois at Chicago.
Law & Social Inquiry -.Available table of contents for this journal.
Association of Research Libraries Directory of Electronic Journals and Newsletters -.List of online newsletters, journals, and other publications.
Law Journal EXTRA! -.Online magazine-style journal geared toward the interests of lawyers.
The Journal of Online Law -.Electronic publication of scholarly essays about law and online communications-law and cyberspace; all issues online.
The Western Criminologist: The Official Newsletter of the Western Society of Criminology -.Contains articles on a variety of topics.
Web Journal of
Current Legal Issues -.Bi-monthly publication
focusing on current legal issues in judicial decisions, law reform, legislation,
legal research, policy related socio-legal research, legal information,
information technology and practice; all issues online.
•
Miscellaneous Links
Canadian Criminal Justice Resource Page -.Criminal justice, corrections, life in prison, restorative justice, crime prevention, victims of crime, juvenile delinquency, law enforcement, and government and media sites; Canadian based and oriented.
A Prisoner's Dictionary -.A comprehensive list of slang and general terms used in American prisons.
North Carolina Department of Corrections, Division of Prisons -.Includes a virtual tour of North Carolina's Central Prison.
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology -.List of links, also newsletter and listing of articles and books published, as well as upcoming events.
The Penal Lexicon -.UK-based.
The
Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Network on Gender, Work
and Family
University of Capetown's Socio-Legal Research Unit -.Provides a listing of publications from this group, as well as information about this program in South Africa.
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