Criminal Justice

Minnesota Information

• Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) - Minnesota crime data including the Minnesota Uniform Crime Reports.
• Death Penalty - Historical overview of the death penalty in Minnesota. Another good overview can be found on p. 18-19 of the Minnesota House of Representatives' Session Weekly publication from May 18, 2001.
• Minnesota Alliance on Crime - The Minnesota Alliance on Crime connects systems, service providers, and victims to advance the response for victims of all crime.
• Minnesota Department of Corrections - Includes Fact Sheets, and an Offender Locator.
• Minnesota Department of Public Safety - Provides access to statewide public safety data.
  • Amber Alert - Information on the program to alert the public when a child has been abducted by a stranger.
  • Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) - Minnesota crime data including the Minnesota Uniform Crime Reports.
  • Minnesota Criminal Justice Statute Service - A BCA search tool "intended for use by criminal justice professionals and the public for finding specific Minnesota Criminal Justice Statutes for charging and sentencing purposes."
  • Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST).
  • Minnesota State Patrol.
• Minnesota Office of Justice Programs - Agency devoted to the improvement of criminal justice planning, grant administration, and victim services.
• Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission - Access to many reports and explanations on how the guidelines work.
• Violence Free Minnesota - A statewide coalition of over 90 member programs working to end relationship abuse. The Homicide Report: Relationship Abuse in Minnesota provides total numbers of women and children murdered each year.
• Voices for Racial Justice - BRIDGE: Prison Justice - The BRIDGE is a grassroots partnership of currently incarcerated individuals, their families, and Voices for Racial Justice.

Guns and Gun Control - Minnesota

• Protect Minnesota - Committed to ending gun violence in Minnesota.
• Firearm Carry Laws - A guide compiled by the staff of the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library.
• Firearms - Page created by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Includes Permit to Carry (Firearms) information, Permit to Carry Reports and Permit to Carry FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).
• Firearms - Publications from the Minnesota House Research Department.
• Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance - Committed to the passage/retention of permissive concealed carry gun laws in Minnesota.
• Minnesota Summary of State Firearms Law - Overview of Minnesota laws and regulations related to firearms.

Minnesota Publications/Guides

• Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) - Access to the Minnesota Uniform Crime Reports.
• Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity (formerly Institute on Race and Poverty), University of Minnesota - Published the Minnesota Statewide Racial Profiling Study (2003).
• Minnesota House Research Department - Access their many Criminal Justice reports. A timely 2016 update was released for Expungement of Criminal Records.
• Minnesota Legislative Reference Library Guides.
  • Firearm Carry Laws.
• Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor - Access to several of their Criminal Justice reports.
• Minnesota Statistical Analysis Center - collects, analyzes and shares criminal and juvenile justice data, including archives of criminal justice data reporting.

National Information

• Corrections Connection Network News - An online resource for news and information in corrections. Includes a Links Library.
• Legal Information Institute - Information from Cornell University, provides links to federal, state, and international materials. Includes White-Collar Crime: An Overview and Criminal Law: An Overview.
• National Association of Crime Victim Compensation Boards (NACVCB) - Provides information on history, funding, eligibility, and compensation by state.
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers - They advocate for criminal justice issues.
• National Crime Prevention Council - Crime prevention tips, resources, and programs.
• Racial Profiling - Data from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
• RAND - Access to several Criminal Law, Civil Law, and Public Safety related RAND reports.
• Sex Offender Management Policy in the States - Information from the Council of State Governments (CSG).
• StopHazing.org - A variety of information on hazing with access to State Anti-Hazing Laws.
• United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice - Criminal justice and crime prevention information on a global level.
• U.S. Department of Justice - Use the Department of Justice Agencies chart showing the organization of the Department. Or go straight to these divisions:
  • Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
  • Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section - Information on cybercrime.
  • National Institute of Justice (NIJ) - This research and development agency provides access to full text Publications.
  • National Sex Offender Public Website - Access to state sex offender registries.
  • Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) - This office deals with juvenile justice issues.
  • Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) - This office is committed to justice and healing of all victims of crime. It provides access to a U.S. Resource Map of Crime Victim Services and Information.

Death Penalty

• Amnesty International Death Penalty - Facts and figures on the death penalty in the United States and throughout the world.
• Death Penalty - Links to a variety of data related to the death penalty, includes U.S.A. executions by year and state from the Death Penalty News and Updates website maintained by a member of the History Department at St. Mary's University in Winona, Minnesota.
• Death Penalty Information Center - Strong arguments to support the abolition of the death penalty, includes a variety of Reports. Also provides a History of the Death Penalty.
• Pro-Death Penalty.com - Pro-death penalty information and resources.
• The Death Penalty - Includes pro and con articles, as well as state comparisons.

Domestic Abuse and Sex Crimes

• Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM) - A variety of reports on sexual offenders.
• Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) - Located at the University of Minnesota. An electronic clearinghouse for resources about violence and abuse in general with an emphasis on sexual and domestic abuse.
• National Sex Offender Public Website - Access to state sex offender registries from the United States Department of Justice.
• Violence Free Minnesota - A statewide coalition of over 90 member programs working to end relationship abuse. The Homicide Report: Relationship Abuse in Minnesota provides total numbers of women and children murdered each year.

Gangs

• FBI's Anti-Gang Initiatives - Information on anti-gang investigations and initiatives.
• National Alliance of Gang Investigators Associations (NAGIA) - Organization dedicated to the sharing of anti-gang information.
• National Gang Center - Information on youth gangs and effective responses to them. It includes Resources such as gang-related legislation by state.

Guns and Gun Control

• ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) Online - United States law enforcement agency charged with oversight of firearms enforcement. Their Publicatons Library includes the Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide - 2014 Edition.
• Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence - Includes Legislation Resources with information about proposed federal legislation.
• National Rifle Association (NRA) - An active pro-gun organization.
• Violence Policy Center - This group works to reduce firearms violence in America.

Hate Crimes

• Anti-Defamation League - An anti-hate organization founded in 1913.
• Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights - Information on hate crimes and other civil rights issues.
• Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) - Enter the term hate crimes in the search box to find numerous publications.
• Learning for Justice - A group dedicated to finding solutions to hate and intolerance.
• Hate Crime Statistics - Data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Identity Theft

• Center for Identity Management and Information Protection (CIMIP) - A national collaborative based at Utica College, dedicated to research and studies related to identity theft.
• ID (Identity) Theft - Information from the Federal Trade Commission.
• Identity Theft and Identity Fraud - Information from the United States Department of Justice.

Juvenile Justice

• Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice - Organization dedicated to alternatives to prison for juvenile offenders.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service - Access to their Juvenile Justice page.
• National Gang Center - Information on youth gangs and effective responses to them. It includes Resources such as gang-related legislation by state.
• National Juvenile Defender Center - Organization dedicated to juvenile justice issues.
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) - This office deals with juvenile justice issues and publishes a comprehensive statistical report: Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2014 National Report.

Law Enforcement Directories

• Official Directory of State Patrol and State Police - Links to State Patrol/Police sites, maintained by retired Senior Sergeant Terry Martin, of the Vermont State Police.
• USACOPS - Lists of police departments and sheriff offices. Includes law enforcement officers in Minnesota by geographic location.

Sentences and Reentry

• American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) - Information on probation, parole, and community-based corrections.
• Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice - Organization dedicated to alternatives to prison for juvenile offenders.
• Collateral Consequences Resource Center - a non-profit organization that promotes public discussion of the collateral consequences of conviction: the legal restrictions and social stigma that burden people with a criminal record.
• Justice Center, Council of State Governments (CSG) - Creating strategies to address public safety and reentry issues. Their Justice Reinvestment project is working on strategies to reduce recidivism.
• National Reentry Resource Center - A program from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance.
• Sentencing and Corrections - Policy information compiled by the Vera Institute of Justice.
• The Sentencing Project - A group involved with alternative sentencing programs. They provide Statistics by State that includes voting disenfranchisement numbers.

Statistics

• Bureau of Justice Statistics - The primary source for United States criminal justice statistics.
• Corrections Connection Network News - Criminal Justice Stats - Statistics from an online resource for news and information in corrections.
• Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA) - "A national organization of state Statistical Analysis Center directors as well as analysts, researchers, and practitioners throughout the justice system." This site provides access to Infobase of State Activities and Research (ISAR) which provide abstracts of various criminal justice and firearms related reports, publications, surveys, and other similar research.
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data - NACJD facilitates and encourages research in the field of criminal justice through the preservation and sharing of data resources.
• Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) Campus Security Statistics - Reported campus crime statistics for over 6,000 United States colleges and universities.
• U.S. Department of Justice - Use the Department of Justice Agencies chart showing the organization of the Department. Or go straight to these divisions:
  • Bureau of Justice Statistics - Provides access to Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online.
  • Federal Bureau of Investigation - Provides access to Uniform Crime Reports which includes Hate Crime Statistics. It also provides the full text of recent issues of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.
  • Federal Bureau of Prisons - Includes abstracts and full text of a selection of recent reports by the Office of Research, and facts about prisons, inmates, and staff.
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service - The most extensive clearinghouse in the world for sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice. Use their Topical Index to find statistics on a variety of topics. Also provides access to NCJRS Virtual Library which contains summaries of over 190,000 criminal justice publications.

• See also Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco.
• See also Law and Legislation.

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