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Websites

The American Society of Criminology The American Society of Criminology is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency.
Bureau of Justice Statistics BJS is the primary statistical agency of the Department of Justice. It is one of the thirteen principal federal statistical agencies throughout the Executive Branch, agencies whose activities are predominantly focused on the collection, compilation, processing, or analysis of information for statistical purposes.
Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) The BOP is a leader in correctional excellence and consistently recognized for outstanding government stewardship.
National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS) NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
Uniform Crime Reports for the United States (FBI) The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has been the starting place for law enforcement executives, students of criminal justice, researchers, members of the media, and the public at large seeking information on crime in the nation.

Open Education Resources (OER)

ERIC This link opens in a new window Educational Resources Information Center produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. Most of the content is available in full text for free.
Open Dissertations This link opens in a new window This free database searches more than 670,000 electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) from more than 25 universities worldwide.

Open Access Criminal Journals and Magazines

American Police Beat A comprehensive editorial, great visuals, and keeping people’s attention by engaging them with an entertaining magazine that speaks to their world and needs.
Anti-Trafficking Review The Anti-Trafficking Review promotes a human rights-based approach to anti-trafficking. It explores trafficking in its broader context including gender analyses and intersections with labour and migrant rights.
Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice This is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, academic journal that examines the intersection of applied and social psychology with criminal justice.
Boston College Law Review The Boston College Journal of Law and Social Justice was folded into the BC Law Review in 2017.
Crime Science The journal's main focus is on research articles and systematic reviews that reflect the growing cooperation among a variety of fields, including environmental criminology, economics, engineering, geography, public health, psychology, statistics and urban planning, on improving the detection, prevention and understanding of crime and disorder. Crime Science will publish theoretical articles that are relevant to the field, for example, approaches that integrate theories from different disciplines.
The Criminologist (Published by the ASC)
Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society (CCJLS) CCJLS is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that promotes an understanding of the causes of crime; the methods used to prevent and control crime; the institutions, principles, and actors involved in the apprehension, prosecution, punishment, and reintegration of offenders; and the legal and political framework under which the justice system and its primary actors operate.
International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF) IJCSDF is a knowledge resource for practitioners, scientists, and researchers among others working in various fields of Cyber Security, Privacy, Trust, Digital Forensics, Hacking, and Cyber Warfare.