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Websites, criminal law

Australian resources

  • Attorney-General's Department
  • Director of public prosecutions (DPP)
  • Australasian Centre for Policing Research
  • Australian Federal Police (also includes the Australian Capital Territory)
  • Australian Institute of Criminology a commonwealth statutory authority, AIC is "the national focus for the study of crime and criminal justice in Australia and for the dissemination of criminal justice information". Statistics, research, conferences and publications of the Institute are noted
  • Crime and Misconduct Commission (Qld) the CMC's (formerly the Criminal Justice Commission) role is to monitor, review and initiate reform of the administration of criminal justice in Queensland. It's reports are available via the publications link and are downloadable using Adobe Acrobat
  • Crime Research Centre (University of Western Australia) in addition to developing a statistical database, the centre has been at the forefront of evaluative criminal justice research in Western Australia
  • Criminology Research Council the council funds criminological research and lists current projects and reports of completed research which are available from the Australian Institute of Criminology
  • Independent Commission Against Corruption (NSW) publication list with summaries (not full text), information on how to report matters to the commission and information on its role
  • Institute of Criminology (University of Sydney) Includes information on publications and seminars
  • National Crime Prevention (NCP) program was launched in 1997 by the Prime Minister. The objective is to identify and promote innovative ways of reducing and preventing crime and fear of crime
  • Parliamentary Library, Criminal law as well as links to key criminal law sites and publications, this site provides a chronological list of key dates and documents relating to mandatory sentencing, primarily as it relates to WA and NT and the consequent commonwealth involvement. Links to electronic versions of the documents are provided
  • Premier's department (NSW) links to police royal commission reports
  • Victoria Police includes publications in full text including annual reports, information about policing programs, application forms, police crime news, etc.

Overseas resources

  • Buffalo Criminal Law Centre criminal law resources on the internet. Online access to criminal law materials from the United States and throughout the world, including, among other things, criminal codes, criminal procedure codes, and enforcement codes. For a dynamic website integrating these materials into a comprehensive and systematic collection of interconnected annotated codes, court opinions, and commentary, go to the Penal Law Web
  • Carpenter's forensic science resources in a criminal fact investigation and Criminal law links. R. Scott Carpenter, assistant public defender of Knoxville, Tennessee, has compiled an extremely useful bibliography and reference guide to the forensic sciences, and also provides links to a wide range of criminal law and general law related internet resources and sites
  • The Counter-terrorism page attempts to provide a single resource for people interested in the areas of terrorism, counter-terrorism and international crime. Links are provided to a wide range of terrorism-related internet resources, including the US State Department's patterns of global terrorism, the CIA and FBI, as well as the full text of DOSFAN reports and such journals as covert action quarterly
  • Florida State University, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice links, created and maintained by Cecil Greek, provides links to a wide array of criminal law sites on a global scale, from international criminal justice sources and online criminal justice discussion lists and e-journals, to federal criminal justice agencies and police agencies and resources
  • Institute for Law and Justice (ILJ) criminal justice and related links. ILJ, a private, non-profit company providing research, consulting and services in criminal justice, provides links to a wide range of national and international sites and resources in the area of criminal justice. These include newspapers and libraries, government sites, courts, and a number of agencies and other organizations
  • International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy,Vancouver, British Columbia, is a joint initiative of the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. Formally affiliated with the United Nations, its activities include policy development, law reform, research, training, international development and information dissemination. The centre's web site provides information about the centre, its projects and the full text of its publications and guides. Links are also provided to related Internet sites, such as the United Nations criminal justice information network
  • International Court of Justice includes full text decisions of the court and links to full text of basic instruments
  • International criminal law
  • International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law
  • Money laundering alert (Alert Global Media) contains selected articles and news on the US Bank Secrecy Act and money laundering worldwide
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) an extensive source of information on criminal and juvenile justice on a worldwide scale, with links to US and international documents and organizations dealing with various aspects of criminal justice. The centre also offers, via email subscription, a bi-weekly electronic newsletter entitled JUSTINFO, which provides notice of new criminal justice publications, as well as Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, and White House Office of National Drug Control Policy news. To subscribe, send a message to the address: listproc@aspensys.com In the body of the message type subscribe justinfo yourfirstname yourlastname. Also available via email subscription, in the area of Juvenile Justice, is a news distribution list entitled JUVJUST, sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) through NCJRS. Information is provided directly from OJJDP and NCJRS about new publications, programmes, new juvenile justice Internet resources, etc. To subscribe, send a message to the address: listproc@aspensys.com In the body of the message type subscribe juvjust yourfirstname yourlastname
  • Office of International Criminal Justice (OICJ) is a Center of the University of Chicago at Illinois, contains information about OICJ, its mission and activities. Access is also provided to the full text of OICJ online newspapers covering criminal justice on a global scale, and to a wide range of criminal justice related Internet sites and resources.
  • Statewatch monitoring the state and civil liberties in the European Union. This searchable database covers the state and civil liberties in the UK and Europe, including such areas as policing, security and intelligence agencies, the law and the European Court of Human Rights, prisons, immigration and racism. The database includes the full text of European Union resolutions and agreements, lists of relevant debates in the UK House of Commons and Lords, and the European Parliament, reports on the Council of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers, reports on cases in the European Court of Human Rights, and the Institute of Race Relations: European Race Audit.
  • Uniform Crime Reports is made available by the University of Virginia, Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, and "consists of four county-level data files. The first three provide arrests for part I offenses (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, and arson) and for part II offenses (forgery, fraud, embezzlement, vandalism, weapons violations, sex offenses, drug and alcohol abuse violations, gambling, vagrancy, curfew violations, and runaways). The fourth file provides reported offenses (as opposed to arrests) for part I crimes only."
  • UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) collection of links

See also International criminal law websites

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