Criminal Justice Web Sites

Criminal justice is a major concern of American society and a vast amount of research is published each year on this topic. In this article, Dodge reviews 15 Web sites, which have been selected according to the following criteria: authority, currency, purpose, objectivity, and potential usefulness to researchers. The Web sites evaluated here all provide narrative and statistical information concerning the field of criminal justice: crime, law enforcement, the judicial system, and corrections. These Web sites are published by educational institutions, the federal government, and a few nonprofit organizations.