Criminal Behavior

Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

Searchable gateway to the Department of Justice, including publications, legal documents, strategic plans, and annual reports.

Searchable website providing news and information, publications, regulations, links for kids, most wanted criminals, and more.

Gateway to information on drug trafficking and abuse, law enforcement, drug policy, and DEA resources.

Links to full-text resources on terrorism, most wanted terrorist and fugitive lists, and kids and youth resources.

The ONDCP web site provides links to an extensive publications list, drug facts, and treatment programs, as well as information about state, local, and international drug use statistics and prevention efforts.

This site contains access to full-text of the Institute's publications accessible by broad subject areas, highlighting new publications in particular.

Directory and inmate information, employment information, National Institute of Corrections.

A "non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment." The site includes information on executions, state-by-state information, issues, DPIC reports, and news.

Provides links to organizations, court decisions, national statistics, and international reports.

The OJJDP homepage describes the mission of the Office and provides access to information about its programs, including available funding for local agencies. It also links to juvenile justice information and resources across the country.

The NCJJ is the research and development arm of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and includes links to the Center’s various publications and databases.

Statistics on drugs and crime, human trafficking, cyber crime, identity theft, as well as violent crimes.

Contains data to the following: crime trends from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, homicide trends and characteristics by state and local agencies, law enforcement management, and administrative statistics.

A summary of U.S. statistics concerning drug-related crimes, law enforcement, courts, and corrections from Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and non-BJS sources.

U.S. crime statistics compiled by the FBI.

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 600 tables.

Research data available from ICPSR, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and National Institute of Justice.

The FJSRC maintains the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database, which contains information about suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system.

Collects data on the incidence of reported crime and the operations of criminal justice systems with a view to improving the analysis and dissemination of that information globally.

Sponsored by the U.S. Census Bureau, American FactFinder is an excellent source for a variety of demographic information.

The OPE Campus Security Statistics Website, from the U.S. Dept. of Education Office of Post Secondary Education, provides statistics on reported criminal offenses for over 6000 colleges and universities in the United States.