Justice and the FBI

Laws and Regulations

• Regulations

  • Code of Federal Regulations (help)

  • Unified Agenda (help)

  • Missouri State Regulations

• Laws

  • U.S. Code (help)

  • Missouri Revised Statutes

• Both

  • FindLaw State Resources

  • Law Librarians' Society

Statistical Resources

• Bureau of Justice Statistics  Provides links to statistics about crime, criminals, victims, etc.

• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics  Updated continuously. Provides tables in .pdf files.

• Compendium of Federal Justice Statistics  Presents national-level statistics describing all aspects of processing in the Federal criminal justice system, including investigations by U.S. attorneys, prosecutions and declinations, pretrial release and detention, convictions and acquittals, sentencing, appeals, and corrections

• FBI

• Uniform Crime Reports 1995-present

• National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)

• Hate Crime Statistics

• Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted

Criminal Justice Sites

• ADA Regulations and Technical Assistance Materials

• Bureau of Justice Assistance

• Publications

• Evaluation/Planning

• Bureau of Justice Statistics

• Crime & Justice Electronic Data Abstracts

• FBI Home Page

• Publications

• Department of Justice

• Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations, January, 2001

• Bureau of Diplomatic Security, United States Department of State Included here are links to State Department programs about Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Narcotics, Passport and Visa Fraud Programs, and overseas security programs. Find here also links to criminal justice news items.

• Federal Administrative Decisions & other Actions--find here links to Federal agency administrative decisions outside the scope of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations. They include directives, final opinions, policy and interpretations, policy bulletins, memoranda, opinions, etc.

• Federal Judiciary Home Page

• Federal Judicial Center Check out their publication list, dozens of documents in Adobe Acrobat format.

• FEDLAW From the General Services Administration. Links to federal and state laws, regulations, legislation, courts, associations, how-to sites, etc. Lots of links.

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service has available two resources on the Internet for searching and finding information:

• NCJRS Abstracts Database The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

• NCJRS Virtual Library--This searches NCJRS's Justice Information Center web site and the web sites of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

• NCJRS Online Ordering System Browse recently added publications and most popular titles; search by title, key word, or NCJ number. Includes links to online titles in pdf, txt, and/or html. Download or order paper copy. Many titles are free or very low cost.

• Office for Victims of Crime, Advocating for the Fair Treatment of Crime Victims--find help for victims, funding opportunities, publications, and more

• U.S. Court of International Trade Decides "any civil action against the United States, its officers, or its agencies arising out of any law pertaining to international trade" and "certain civil actions brought by the United States under the laws governing import transactions." Includes cases from 1999-present.

• U.S. Supreme Court

• US Supreme Court Cases 1990 to Present And selected cases previous to 1990. Provided by the Legal Information Institution.

Publications and Databases

• Bureau of Justice Administration Training Database  Keyword searchable database of federally funded or federally provided training programs 

• National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics Publications, news, resources

• NCJRS Abstracts Database From the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Includes "summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research."

• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Includes each issue from November 1989 to present.

• Mapping Crime: Principles and Practices From the National Institute of Justice

Other Useful Sites

• The Legal Process provided by the North Harris Learning Resource Center, Houston, TX. Nice explanation along with links to both the documents and their Internet counterparts.

• National Center for State Courts Court information from NCSC.

• National Center for State Courts List of Courts Includes federal and international courts as well as others arranged by state.

• United States Commission on Civil Rights

  • Historical Documents (Located at the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland

  
  

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05-26-2005
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