Large digitised collection of prison newspapers, available open access for all through JSTOR project

US counterpart to the BSC. Details of members, sections, and publications, available on the website.

Project of Electronic Frontier Foundation to map the use of various surveillance technologies

Official statistics on crime and criminal justice

Established in the wake of the 2015 protests against police shootings, Campaign Zero is a research & advocacy organisation seeking a move to an understanding of public safety beyond policing. Maintains respected database Mapping Police Violence - https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

Very useful center that offers a range of guides on specific policing problem areas, including useful literature reviews and full-text documents.

Provides access to a wide range of resources, notably the Uniform Crime Reports (1929-) which include the statistical series: Crime in the United States and Hate Crime Statistics (both from 1995).

City University New York project to track news reports of hate crime since the election of Donald Trump in November 2016. See also Documenting Hate cooperative project to establish a reliable national database on the nature & prevalence of hate crime, and the relatively new (August 2017) Hate News Index indexing hate incidents from Google news sources (downloadable data)

Maintained by Philip Stinson, Bowling Green State University. Summary information on thousands of criminal arrest cases 2005-2018 involving 13,600 individual non-federal law enforcement officers. Search by location (down to county level), crime, victim

Combats trafficking by empowering justice systems to stop traffickers. Resources include the annual Federal Human Trafficking Report, with data from 2000-

University of Chicago’s Center on Public Safety and Justice offers in-depth information on crime, violence, and victimization in cities across the United States. Includes data from 50 large cities, with daily crime updates and crime maps plus yearly statistics and crime profiles for each of the cities

A set of linked research projects on prisoner reentry and the effects of incarceration in Michigan. With the cooperation of the Michigan Department of Corrections and other state agencies, we are collecting and analyzing administrative records and interview data on individuals released from prison and others convicted of felonies. Our goals are to better understand the experiences of former prisoners as they return to society, the role of social contexts such as neighborhoods and families in prisoner reentry and reintegration, and the impact of incarceration on employment and future criminal activity.

Major source of statistical data, hosted by ICPSR at University of Michigan. Comprises a large number of data sets, mostly at federal or local level, plus some international data. Main contributors are the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention.

Includes its abstracts database, covering over 200 000 publications dealing with the US crime & justice system since 1970, as well as links to other federal online resources.

Federally funded centre looking at gangs in US. Many publications available, plus data from the National Youth Gang Survey (1996-2012)

Non-profit independent agency promoting research on gangs. Publishes "Journal of gang research"

Connects victims and survivors of sex and labor trafficking with services and support. Extensive resources & statistics

Research arm of the Department of Justice. Many useful publications freely accessible

Free access to some useful publications.

OJP provides leadership to federal, state, local, and tribal justice systems, by disseminating knowledge and best practice, and providing grants for the implementation of crime reduction strategies

Initiative to provide current, real-time data (and mappings of crime) than available through official estimates. It has been built by AH Datalytics and supported by Arnold Ventures. National & state data for various types of crime over several years

Major civil rights organisation.

Tracks fatal police shootings 2015-