Practice Resources
The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Division for Public Education Web site provides basic information about criminal law in question-and-answer format. Subjects included discuss: how civil and criminal law differ; what a citation is; what distinguishes a misdemeanor from a felony; and the standard of proof in a criminal case.
Source: The American Bar Association (ABA).
The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Commission on Domestic Violence Web site is a valuable resource of information on domestic violence issues, providing links to domestic violence shelters and programs, attorneys, statistics, organizations, and federal and state legislation sources. The Web site also provides news release archives and information on upcoming domestic violence events.
Source: The American Bar Association (ABA).
This Web site is a comprehensive resource of information on the criminal justice system. The site is divided into major resource areas that are accessible by the navigation bar on the left side of the page. These resource areas include links to: a Calendar of Criminal Section Events; News & Media; Publications; Committees; Law Student Information; and much more. The Informational Services section contains an additional resource of over 50 links to other related resources.
Source: The American Bar Association (ABA).
This Web site is for those interested in the crime of stalking. The site provides links to stalkers and stalking information, what a victim can do, research studies, and other helpful resources.
Source: antistalking.com.
This Web site provides links to information on the Department of Justice Asset Forfeiture Program. The information includes the purpose and scope of the program, annual reports to Congress, who participates in the enforcement of the program, a link to the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000, and more.
Source: Department of Justice (DOJ).
This Web site provides access to criminal law resources on the Internet, including materials from the United States and throughout the world. These materials include criminal and criminal procedure codes, enforcement codes, court opinions and commentary, organized alphabetically by country and state.
Source: Buffalo Criminal Law Center.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics Web page provides statistics on crimes and victims, criminal offenders, federal, state and local law enforcement, corrections (jails and prisons), and more.
Source: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Department of Justice (DOJ).
This Web site provides business owners and corporate executives with basic information on how criminal laws can impact their organizations. The site’s topics cover how a corporation, corporate officer or agent can be criminally liable, with discussions of the white-collar crimes of violation of antitrust law, bribery and extortion, computer crime, embezzlement, and more. The site also offers other resources on the criminal liability of businesses.
Source: weblocator.com
This Web site is a complete resource on California driving under the influence (DUI) law. The site provides tips on hiring an attorney, the pre-arrest, arrest and prosecutorial process involved, the law, information on blood alcohol level, and more. A search function provides keyword access to related sources.
Source: Ed Kuwatch.
This Web site is a complete index of criminal justice resources. The links are classified into broad topical categories, with more specialized links within each category. The criminal justice links access 17 categories, including: Federal; International; Information Sources, Crime, Juvenile Delinquency, Drugs; Police; Due Process; Censorship; Law Databases; and more.
Source: Cecil Greek, from Florida State University’s School of Criminology & Criminal Justice.
The Centre for International Crime Prevention (CICP) is the United Nations office responsible for transnational crime prevention, criminal justice, and criminal law reform. The CICP Web site provides links to information on the CICP, terrorism, corruption, trafficking in human beings, and more.
Source: United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UNODCCP).
The CrimeLynx Web site offers two major resources pertaining to criminal law. First, the "legal resource center," providing links for the criminal defense practitioner. These links cover legal research, forensics, experts, investigation, and crime policy. The second major resource is the "criminal justice center," with links to daily news, media, politics and commentary, discussion forums, and more.
Source: CrimeLynx.®
A grassroots.org project dedicated to discussion forums on crime issues.
This Web page provides an alphabetical listing of links to criminal laws, procedure, case law, Constitutions, policies, and propositions. Links to a limited number of correctional/prison-related sites are also provided here.
Source: Internet Law Library.
The Criminal Law Web page is a valuable resource of information on criminal law. The easy-to-navigate site provides links to such criminal law sub-topics as charges and penalties, court procedure, and critical investigative stages. Other links access information on drunken driving, federal crimes, juvenile law, white-collar crimes, criminal deportation, bail, clearing your record, and more.
Source: GotTrouble.com
This Web site is a resource for criminal law electronic discussion groups (Internet listservs and Usenet newsgroups).
Source: LawResearch.
The Criminal Law Guide Web site contains a list of over 70 criminal law topics. Each topic can be read from the text link, and/or listened to from the audio link. Note: To listen to the audio links, the user must have a "player," such as RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. Either one of these players can be downloaded from the Legal Guide Index on the Web page.
Source: Lawinfo.com.
This Web site provides an overview of criminal law and procedure, with links to search and seizure, criminal defense lawyers and public defenders, plea bargaining, lie detectors, sentencing, and more.
Source: Nolo.com, Inc.
The Cybercrimes Web page is a useful resource for doing legal and general informational research on "cybercrimes." Articles and links to sources cover: Virtual Crime; Cyber-Terrorism; Cybercrimes Against Persons; Cybercrimes Against Property; and Cryptography. The site also offers cybercrime resources on U.S. State and federal law, as well as international resources. (Note: U.S. law should be Shepardized for accuracy and recency.)
Source: Professor Susan Brenner of the University of Dayton School of Law.
This Web site provides alphabetized links to the "top 100" criminal justice Web sites, from antivirus to white-collar crime. The site also contains an efficient search function and links to a discussion group and chat room on crime and justice, daily news and stories on police and crime headlines, and publications.
Source: Dr. Frank Schmalleger's Cybrary, a project of the Justice Research Association (JRA).
A comprehensive and complete resource of information on the death penalty. With links to educational curriculum, a press room, and even a version of the Web site written in Spanish, this Web site's most useful resource is its "Information Topics" link. This page is divided in six major categories where the user can find information on executions, death row inmates by state, crimes punishable by death, financial facts about the death penalty, how many women are on death row, a link to recent and upcoming U.S. Supreme Court death penalty cases, and much more.
Source: Death Penalty Information Center.
This Web site is a comprehensive resource of death penalty information, listing the countries that have the death penalty, statistics, other pro-death penalty and abolitionist Web sites, publications, and more.
Source: Derechos Human Rights.
This Web site contains links to famous American trials, such as the Scottsboro Boys, Nuremberg, Rodney King, and O.J. Simpson trials. The site also features links to profiles of trial heroes such as Judge James Edwin Horton and Clarence Darrow.
Source: Doug Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School.
The Federal Grand Jury Web page provides information on what a grand jury is, what it does, covering both state and federal grand juries.
Source: Susan Brenner, of the University of Dayton School of Law.
This Web site provides firearms information and laws for each of the fifty states by way of hyperlinks to each state's statutory gun laws. The Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's) link is particularly useful in providing general information about gun laws.
Source: Alan Korwin, Bloomfield Press.
This Web site provides information about identity theft, including how an individual can minimize their risk, what the victim can do, how to file a complaint, relevant federal and state laws, and more.
Source: Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
The Internet Fraud Web site is a general informational resource covering Internet fraud, the major types, what the Department of Justice (DOJ) does about it, and how the individual can deal with it.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
The Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC), a partnership between the FBI and National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), provides this Web site. The site offers tips to the Internet user on how to spot Internet fraud and also provides an online complaint referral report by which Internet users in the U.S. can alert authorities of suspected Internet fraud. Once a complaint referral report is submitted, it is directed to an appropriate local agency for further action.
Source: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C).
This Web site contains a very complete and comprehensive listing of criminal procedure sources. The links cover the topics of Constitutional criminal procedure, probable cause, pretrial procedures, double jeopardy, juries, sentencing, and other resources.
Source: Dr. Tom O'Connor, MegaLinks in Criminal Justice.
The Legal Information Institute (LII) Web site offers an overview of criminal law, providing links to federal and state law, decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals, international material, state statutes and court decisions, and more.
Source: The Legal Information Institute (LII), from Cornell University.
The Legal Information Institute (LII) Web site offers an overview of the death penalty, with links to federal and state law, U.S. Supreme Court and appellate decisions, and links to other key Internet sources.
Source: The Legal Information Institute (LII), from Cornell University.
The Legal Information Institute (LII) Web site offers an overview of juvenile justice, providing links to federal and state law, appellate decisions, and links to key Internet sources.
Source: The Legal Information Institute (LII), from Cornell University.
The National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC) is a national organization that works with local, state and federal agencies to serves individuals, families, and communities that have been harmed by crime. This Web site provides a comprehensive listing of victim services, membership information, publications, and helpful links that cover such victim-related topics as domestic violence, identity fraud, elder abuse, sexual assault, homicide, stalking, workplace violence, victims' rights, and more.
Source: National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC).
The NCJRS Web site is a comprehensive resource of criminal justice (CJ) information. The site has links to the topics of corrections, courts, drugs and crime, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and more. Free subscription to the site's Justice Information Electronic Newsletter allows the user to stay informed about new publications and news via email. Additionally, the search function is easy to use, providing abstracts from many CJ databases that include publications, research reports, and journal articles.
Source: National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS).
The National Fraud Information Center (NFIC) fights telemarketing fraud by improving prevention and enforcement. NFIC accomplishes this by providing a nationwide toll-free hotline for consumers to 1) get advice about telephone solicitations and 2) report possible telemarketing fraud to law enforcement agencies. This site contains the hotline number, an efficient search function, and provides information about telemarketing and Internet fraud, scams, fraud against the elderly, and more. The Internet Fraud Watch section of the NFIC Web site provides tips, articles, bulletins and other information for preventing fraud and invasion of privacy.
Source: National Consumers League.
Officer.com is a comprehensive and complete resource of information for anyone interested in law enforcement. The site includes an effective search function and has links to many related subtopics, including law enforcement agencies and associations, corrections, employment, most wanted, and more.
Source: James Meredith of Officer.Com.
The Recovered Memory Project (Project) Web site provides accounts of recovered memory in legal proceedings, clinical cases, and in other academic/scientific case studies. Case studies can be submitted to the Project so long as they can be identified with sufficient specificity and corroborated, while recovered memory adversaries can submit contrary evidence to any of the cases included on the Web site. Links to related sources are also available.
Source: Brown University
The Sourcebook is a valuable resource of criminal justice information, compiled from more than 100 sources. The user can search by keyword, or by browsing the Contents, Table and Figure list, and/or the Index.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
This Web site offers a list of "listservs" – free subscription-based email mailing lists through which users can post criminal law related questions and receive answers to their queries.
Source: Tennessee Criminal Law Defense Resources (TnCrimLaw).
