Crime & Punishment

Home Office: Research Development Statistics: British Crime Survey - The RDS manage research and collect statistics in a number of areas including crime, policing, justice, immigration, drugs and race equality.This information helps the Home Office address the concerns of ordinary citizens. It also helps the police, prison and probation officers, the courts and immigration officials to do their jobs as effectively as possible.

Issues Online: Crime and disorder - Online versions of Issues edited by Craig Donnellan from Independence publications. The general library username and password are required to access this resource. Contact Library staff for details.

RAND research documents - Non-profit institution providing research and analysis to improve policy and decision-making.

StopViolence - Covers a variety of topics including school violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and hate crimes as well as human rights issues and September 11.

United Nations Survey of crime trends ...  - 6th UN survey of crime trends and operations of criminal justice systems, 1995-97.

FBI: Hate Crime Statistics 2004

Death Penalty:

Amnesty International's Death Penalty abolition page - Focuses on the death penalty in the United States.

Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) - A history of the death penalty, reports on juveniles, mental illness, facts about death row and sentencing and a database of all executions since 1976.

Execution Tapes - from SoundPortraits.org - An hour-long public radio special hosted by Ray Suarez featuring excerpts of recordings made in Georgia's death house during state electrocutions. This broadcast is the first time a national audience is able to hear what takes place during a state-sponsored execution. This site requires RealAudio for listening to the tapes. In addition to the tapes, there is a wealth of material to read regarding capital punishment.

Pro Death Penalty - A resource for pro-death penalty information with case info on upcoming executions and a collection of death penalty links.

Trafficking:

TIPinAsia - Your Anti Trafficking in Persons in Asia web portal. "Provides quick links to country-specific information on trafficking in persons ... as well as anti-trafficking news and information about individual countries."

United States Department of Justice: Trafficking in Persons

Youth Violence:

Deadly Lessons : School shooters tell why - Two-part report from the Chicago Sun Times examining the phenomenon of random school shootings and the psyches, motivations and profiles of the shooters. Based on research from the Secret Service's National Threat Assessment Center.

StopViolence - Covers a variety of topics including school violence.

Youth Violence : a report of the Surgeon General (US) - 'Examines the factors that lead young people to gravitate toward violence, reviews the factors that protect youth from perpetrating violence and identifies effective research-based preventive strategies'.

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