Research Guides: Administration of Justice Research Basics: Find Web Sites

Why Use the Web?

Face it; it's easy and familiar to many people. Also, the Web is a great resource for research because it's so vast; you can find primary documents, news stories, research papers, pictures, movies, sound, government reports, and more. For research you would use the Web to:

Research cutting-edge topics
Read current news and information
Link to Library information & resources
Discover information about companies
Find information from all levels of government
Read expert and popular opinions

Search Smarter

You don't want to wade through millions of Web pages. By using a few tricks, you can focus your searches relatively easily to those authoritative, reliable sources you want to use.

Use key search terms - Use the same search terms you used successfully to find books and articles.
Know your search tool - Use advanced search features to control your search. For example you can limit your search in Google to just search government or educational Web sites by limiting to a specific domain. Learn more at Google for Researchers.
Use search tools you can trust - Google Scholar indexes scholarly literature on the Web.

You can search Google Scholar below:

Web Sites Top Picks

Use these credible Web resources to build upon the knowledge you have already gained about your topic through your reading of books and articles. One of the best ways to evaluate Web resources is to compare what you read on the Web to what you have already learned from all of your other research.

United States Department of Justice
The U.S. Department of Justice is the world's largest law office and the central agency for enforcement of federal laws.
Uniform Crime Reporting
The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the starting place for those seeking information on crime in the United States.
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Today, four annual publications, Crime in the United States, National Incident-Based Reporting System, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, and Hate Crime Statistics are produced from data received from over 18,000 city, university/college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily participating in the program. The crime data are submitted either through a state UCR Program or directly to the FBI’s UCR Program.

In addition to these reports, information is available on the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program and the Hate Crime Statistics Program, as well as the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
Bureau of Justice Statistics
All data collections from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - The Sourcebook contains statistics in the following areas: Criminal Justice Characteristics, Public Opinion, "Crime, Victims," "Arrests, Seizures," "Courts, Prosecution, Sentencing," and "Parole, Jails, Prisons, Death Penalty."
California Crime Data
Crime statistics in California, from the State of California Department of Justics, Office of the Attorney General
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
As a professional society dedicated to the application of science to the law, the AAFS is committed to the promotion of education and the elevation of accuracy, precision, and specificity in the forensic sciences.
The Forensic Science Society
The main aim of this professional society is to encourage communication and collaboration by providing an arena in which forensic practitioners, researchers, academics and those working in related fields can congregate, communicate and invoke development of areas such as best practice, research, publication, quality and ethics in forensic casework.
Forensic Sciences | National Institute of Justice
Forensic Science topics on the NIJ Web site are divided into six main categories and subtopics within each category. Select "Show Subtopics" to find increasingly specific information.