Criminology: Websites & Statistics

Provides law and psychology recent press releases, news, books and videos, journals, and more.

Provides information related to law from U.S. Code to Supreme Court Decisions to criminal law

The FBI website contains information on counterterrorism, crime, forensic training, and more.

Provides information on taking legible fingerprints, training, and more.

Provides a wide variety of information on the use of technology in law enforcement and corrections under the "Tech Topics" tab on the top of the page.

Provides an Ignitable Liquids Reference Collection (http://ilrc.ucf.edu/); links to useful forensics websites; and information on digital, physical, and biological evidence.

Provides information on crime control and justice issues. Browse by topic using the "All Topics A-Z" option or check out any of the other topical pages, such as Crimes and Prevention, Forensic Sciences, and more.

Provides information on cases, technologies, biographies, links to other forensics resources, and more.

Provides links to current forensics news, forensic organizations, forensics journals, colleges offering forensics programs, and information on many topics related to forensics.

Provides government publications, information on legal cases, job listings, and more..

Criminal justice resources, including Federal, State, and local government reports; books; research reports; journal articles; and unpublished research. US government database. Use it to find out what is available, then check to see if Chatham has it.

Provides access to a wide variety of justice statistics for the United States. Use the options on the left side of the screen to find data about corrections, courts, crime type, law enforcement, victims, and more.

Collects data on persons held under sentence of death and persons executed.

Provides information on the number of adults under some form of correctional supervision in the United States.

Provides you with tables where you can select the statistical data you are most interested in for these reports for either the victim or the offender, for example, age, race, sex, weapon used, and more.

The NCVS has been collecting data on personal and household victimization since 1973. You can view the surveys used, explore various publications and charts of the data, or even manipulate the raw data (this last option requires the creation of a free account).

Provides a wide variety of data on vital statistics, which includes death and causes of death.

Provides information on crimes in Pennsylvania, including by county.

Provides data on Pennsylvania middle and high school students in relation to "their behavior, attitudes and knowledge concerning alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and violence."

Use the navigation across the top of the page to browse the data by general contents, topic, or a list of tables.

The Uniform Crime Reports are an excellent source of data related to crime for the United States. There are several different reports published annually, including Crime in the United States, Hate Crime Statistics, and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted.

Peer-reviewed electronic journal, published twice a year.

Sources for news and articles on current topics and cases in forensics.