Criminal Justice & Criminology

Founded in 1870, it is the "oldest and largest international correctional association in the world."

ACJA has among its objectives the improvement of criminal justice through education, fostering professionalism, and encouraging the establishment and expansion of professional training in criminal justice.

The "only national, nonprofit association dedicated exclusively to supporting those who work in and operate our Nation's 3,200-plus jail facilities by offering high quality training, education, and networking."

See the home page of the FBI for information about job opportunities as well as a link to crime statistics and information about wanted and missing people. See the Resources tab for information about training and technology.

An agency of the U.S. Department of Justice whose goal it is to protect public safety by ensuring federal offenders serve their sentences while providing safe, humane, and cost-effective facilities.

Provides information about careers, the agency, and its priorities. See the Resources tab to find the manual that governs the DOJ, its guidance documents, and publications.

Contains links to their statistics and guidelines. The By Topic tab contains links to reports on a variety of topics.

Covers many areas: Corrections, Courts, Federal, Victims and more. Explore the tabs at the top of the site for additional information.

Use this tool from the Department of Education, to analyze campus safety. Discover trends in crime and download data.

Search all government agencies and choose from a variety of statistics.

Use the Discover Data tab to find data related to topics such as drugs, white-collar crime, terrorism, and hate crimes. Contains data in SPSS, Excel, and other formats.

Links to reports, guidebooks, newsletters, brochures, and studies from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program generates reliable statistics for use in law enforcement. It also provides information for students of criminal justice, researchers, the media, and the public. The program has been providing crime statistics since 1930.

Find information about the U.S. population. Some topics include education level, housing, income, and poverty. Data can be for the entire country or smaller geographies such region, state, county, city, or even a select group of city blocks.

The Justice Management Division (JMD), under the direction of the Assistant Attorney General for Administration, provides advice and assistance to senior management officials relating to basic Department policy for budget and financial management, personnel management and training, facilities, procurement, equal employment opportunity, information processing, records management, security, and all other matters pertaining to organization, management and administration.

The Indiana Criminal Justice Institute (ICJI) is the state planning agency for criminal justice, juvenile justice, traffic safety and victim services. The institute develops long-range strategies for the effective administration of Indiana's criminal and juvenile justice systems and administers state and federal funds to carry out these strategies.

The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, Public Law 93–415, as amended, established the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to support local and state efforts to prevent delinquency and improve the juvenile justice system.

The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office holds criminals accountable for their actions and works hard to preserve the rights of victims. It seeks to place public safety as the number one priority and responsibility of government. This office is dedicated to continually seeking justice and maintaining the highest of ethical standards.

Provides links to the federal courts in the state of Indiana.

The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism—better known as START—is a university-based research and education center comprised of an international network of scholars committed to the scientific study of the causes and human consequences of terrorism in the United States and around the world.

The Death Penalty Information Center is a national non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment.

The MERLOT collection consists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material.

The NGC disseminates information, knowledge, and outcome‐driven practices that engage and empower those in local communities with chronic and emerging gang problems to create comprehensive solutions to prevent gang violence, reduce gang involvement, and suppress gang‐related crime.