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Criminal Justice Resources

This guide is meant to serve as a starting place for people researching criminal justice and related criminal law issues. It focuses primarly on issues related to the United States.

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This guide is meant to serve as a starting place for people researching criminal justice and related criminal law issues.  It focuses primarly on issues related to the United States.  For more criminal law sources (particularly for 1L's), be sure to check out our guides for Criminal Law and Law and Public Policy  and the Kennedy School Library's Criminal Justice guide.

Articles and papers/reports

Indexing/abstracting resources focused on criminal justice

Finding legal articles and papers

Multidisciplinary databases

Other social science databases related to criminal justice

Selected Journals and newsletters

Congressional publications/government reports

Selected books and law-related material

Rules of Criminal Procedure

Selected Criminal Law Treatises, Basic Texts and Practice Manuals

Below are sources related to criminal law generally or focused on federal criminal law.  For a particular jurisdiction, look for secondary sources related to that particular state.  For constitutional issues, see also secondary sources related to constitutional law more generally.

Sentencing

Search and Seizure

ETHICS

Statistics/Data

Sources for criminal justice statistics generally

Crime Solutions.gov

TracFed

Specialized sources of statistics/data

Other sources for statistics

Books, reports and articles about criminal justice statistics and records

Criminal Records

sherlock holmes profile

Organizations

Other sources

50-State Surveys

Historical Archives/Research

What is happening in criminal justice?

Updates from popular criminal justice resources

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