Criminology

BBC Webpage on the Court Service - provides a very useful overview of the court service with a lot of embedded links taking the reader to other interesting pages on relevant areas of the criminal justice system.

crimeinfo site is compiled by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at King’s College London. It offers basic but informative material on crime, what causes it and how we deal with it.

Crime Reduction Website is aimed at assisting community safety and crime prevention practitioners to reduce crime and disorder. The Toolkits integrated into this website provide a comprehensive approach to crime reduction via partnership working.

Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is the Government Department responsible for prosecuting people in England and Wales who have been charged by the police with a criminal offence. Created by the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, the CPS is an independent body that works closely with the police.

Home Office is the government department responsible for internal affairs in England and Wales.

Judicial Studies Board for England and Wales provides training and instruction for full and part-time judges in the skills necessary to be a judge. It also has an advisory role in training lay magistrates.

Juror Online is a government-sponsored site that takes the viewer through what happens on jury service.

Magistrates' Association represents over 80% of serving volunteer magistrates. It promotes uniformity of practice, most notably by publishing the Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Guidelines.

MI5 the Security Service, is the United Kingdom's security intelligence agency. Their official purpose is “to protect national security and economic well-being, and to support the law enforcement agencies in preventing and detecting serious crime”.

Police page has information on all aspects of policing, including complaints, equality and diversity, and race relations between the police and the community.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey London 1674 to 1834 offers a searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of ordinary people, listing 53,000 trials, from April 1674 to December 1799.

Research Development and Statistics Directorate (RDS) is part of the Home Office. There is a wealth of useful data, information and research freely available on this site.

Youth Justice Board for England and Wales is a non-departmental public body which aims to prevent offending by children and young people. The website is a key source for the Youth Justice System.

Criminal Justice Systems: International

Coalition for the International Criminal Court is a network of over 2,000 non-governmental organizations advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court.

Courts.Net provides access to web sites maintained by courts throughout the USA and elsewhere. The listings are organized in sections, covering courts in all states and the Federal system, as well as D.C., territories, Canada and Australia.

European Court of Justice is responsible for the uniform interpretation of Community law. In particular, it answers questions referred to it by national courts whose role is fundamental as they are the first bodies to apply Community law.

FBI This page is constructed by the BBC and provides a useful overview of the FBI.

International Centre for the Prevention of Crime (ICPC) is an international forum for national governments, local authorities, public agencies, and non-government organisations to exchange experience, consider emerging knowledge, and improve policies and programmes in crime prevention and community safety.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data preserves and distributes computerised crime and justice data from US Federal agencies, state agencies, and investigator initiated research projects to users for secondary statistical analysis. It was founded in 1978 as part of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a US federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and programme development worldwide. The NCJRS has a hug criminal and juvenile justice library and database. Many interesting downloads are available here.

National Institute of Justice is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is dedicated to researching crime control and justice issues.

United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network is an electronic clearing-house which represents the culmination of several years of efforts coordinated by the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention in Vienna.

U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics has a wealth of relevant figures and statistics.

World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems developed with U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics funding, provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of 45 countries around the world.