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Criminal Justice Research Guide

A good starting point for finding resources in criminal justice

General Stats

European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics - 

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data is from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and  Social Research, University of Michigan. A collection of data sets compiled by government agencies and individual researchers. To download data, you must be at a computer where you can copy files to a local disk.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online  brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. Archives go back to 1994 and the site is updated annually. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader®.

Uniform Crime Reports  from US FBI. Data on crimes reported and cleared, persons arrested, drugs in America. Also contains "Crime in the United States", an annual publication from 1995 +

US Bureau of Justice Statistics  includes data about crime victims, criminal offenders, law enforcement personnel, prisoners, and corrections staff.