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Racial Disparities Links
Last updated
November 30, 2005
Criminal Justice Statistics
- Human Rights Watch
race-specific incarceration rates for 2000
- "Crunching the Numbers: Crime
and Incarceration at the End of Millennium" by Jan M. Chaiken. (crime
is down 1973-1999, imprisonment is up).
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
Homepage
- Wisconsin Office of Justice Assistance
compiles crime statistics for states and counties.
- ICPSR Criminal Justice
Data Sets Download Page
- Juvenile Justice Facts &
Figures from OJJDP. Includes summary statistics and Easy Access
downloadable data analysis tool
- Justice Research and Statistics Association
(JRSA) is a national organization of state Statistical Analysis
Center directors as well as analysts, researchers, and practitioners
throughout the justice system.
- The Sentencing Commission.
Information about crime, courts, criminal justice policy analysis, jails,
prisons, race, economic class and reform.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
-National Institute of Corrections Facts, statistics, weekly population
reports, inmate programs and services. Information on federal inmates
and links to state and local correction-related web sites.
- National Criminal Justice Resource
Service Comprehensive links to publications and other information.
- Web sites with criminal
justice statistics. From National Center for Justice Research.
- Federal statistical sites gateway
with indices by topic, agency, etc.
- Criminal Justice
Links compiled by Cecil Greek at Florida State University department
of criminology and criminal justice. (last updated 1998).
Topics include community corrections, prisons, restorative justice,
death penalty.
- Criminal Justice
Links an extensive collection compiled by Prof. Tom O'Connor at
North Carolina Wesleyan College.
- Sourcebook of Criminal
Justice Statistics Online Supported by Bureau of Justice Statistics
- University
of Wisconsin's LaFollette Institute Corrections links
- Criminal Justice
Links from Florida State Criminology Dept.
- Criminal Justice
Links at Michigan State University
- State Justice Statistics Links
- American Bar Association
Criminal Justice Section This home page has links in a variety
of directions.
- Mother Jones research/policy/advocacy
site on prison issues
- Private Prisons Research
Site Maintained by Charles Logan, Professor of Sociology at the
University of Connecticut.
- Private Prisons links
Maintained by Charles Thomas, retired Professor of Criminology
at the University of Florida.
- Prison Policy Initiative
publishes a comprehensive
handbook of statistics about prisons.
- Streetgangs.com is maintained by a UCLA geographer who focuses on LA gangs. Maps and information.
Corrections
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
Quick Facts link to stats on inmates by race, ethnicity, age, gender,
etc. Links to research and evaluation and other relevant sites.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- National Institute
of Justice The research and development branch of the U.S.
Dept. of Justice. Supports research, evaluation, and demonstration programs.
- National Institute of Corrections Provides training,
technical assistance, information services and policy/program development
assistance to federal, state and local corrections agencies.
- Justice Information Center National Criminal
Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). Extensive source of information
on criminal and juvenile justice in the world, many links to other sites.
- Inmate Placement Branch Serves as a clearinghouse
for information about employment enhancement programs and post-release
employment opportunities for Federal prisoners.
- Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures
Special Issue on
Prisons. Discussion Guide
on Prisons (Includes articles and discussion questions which can
be downloaded as a package)
- National Criminal Justice
Reference Service Corrections Links
- Corrections education for inmates
and families. A large and well-organized site with information
on education, rehabilitation, and many other prison-related topics.
- Council of Prison Locals Corrections
workers union
- Corrections.com A gateway
site oriented to the corrections industry with direct links to a large
number of professional corectional associations.
- American Correctional Association
An organization of corrections professionals.
- Corrections USA a web site for
professional corrections officers
- http://www.officer.com/ is a
directory of law enforcement-related sites, including criminal justice.
- Sites critical of the prison industry
Juvenile Justice
Activism & Policy
Local
National
- PreventingCrime.org
"Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising"
published by the National Institute of Justice, and other reports and
links on preventing crime, including why trying juveniles as adults
may backfire, and preventing gun violence. Reports available in
brief and longer versions. Easy-to-read summaries of research.
- American Society of Criminology
Draft of National Policy White Paper "The Use of Incarceration in the
United States" November 2000. National Policy Committee:
James Austin, Marino A. Bruce, Leo Carroll, Patricia L. McCall, Stephen
C. Richards. Comments are requested by the authors. Direct
comments to James Austin
- The Sentencing Project
Advocates for shorter prison sentences. Policy articles, fact
sheets.
- Prison Activist Resource
Center (prisonactivist.org) "the source for progressive and
radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system."
Well-organized and documented links to organizations and reports.
- prisonactivists.org
a slightly different name from the above, not sure yet what is on the
site.
- Milton Eisenhower Foundation supports grassroots "what works" programs; web page summarizes what works, what does not work. Has a section on prisons and criminal justice, including racial disparities.
- Building
Blocks for Youth is an alliance of professionals that
seeks to protect minority youth in the justice system and promote rational
and effective justice policies.
- "Justice
on Trial: Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System."
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. A comprehensive review
of racial profiling, prosecution and sentencing disparities, with recommendations.
- Campaign for an Effective Crime
Policy an organization of progressive criminal justice professionals.
Policy articles.
- Justice Policy Institute Center
of Juvenile and Criminal Justice. A private non-profit organization
whose mission is to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration
as a solution to social problems
- The Justice Project
educates and advocates around inequities and injustices in criminal
sentencing, especially the death penalty; site emphasizes wrongful convictions.
- The Manhattan Institute
is a think tank whose mission is to develop and disseminate new ideas
that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility.
Pushes "broken windows" policing. A cost-benefit analysis
of incarceration
- Wisconsin Policy Research Institute
There is no index to their many reports and articles which speak to
public policy issues in Wisconsin, focusing on education, welfare and
social services, criminal justice, taxes and spending, and economic
development; also conducts a Wisconsin poll. One report
criticizes lenient
sentencing in Milwaukee. There are several others critical
of criminal justice systems in Milwaukee, and reports on prison inmates
and prison issues.
- Prison Moratorium Project,
Democratic Socialists of America youth section.
- Third Eye Movement
, a youth-led community organization based in the San Francisco- Oakland
area which focuses on developing the consciousness and capacity
of everyday people — primarily (though not exclusively) working
class people of color.
- 180 Movement for
Democracy and Education. Soon will have links for Democracy
Teach-In on prisons.
- The Los Angeles office of the NAACP
LDF web site publicizes its activities with a lot of multimedia
resoources, especially on policing in LA.
- Critical Resistance
Conferences on the prison industrial complex. Has a long but unsorted
page of links to other activist sites on criminal justice and related
issues.
- John Hagedorn's web site on
gangs and gang research. He is a professor of Criminal Justice at
the University of Illinois at Chicago and author of several books and
many articles.
- Criminal
Justice section of Race, Racism and the Law site on criminal justice,
including links to articles on profiling, driving while black, etc.
- An Anti-Prop 21 (Tough
on Juvenile Crime) web page with links to on-line articles on the subject.
- ConsensusProject.Org
is a web site for the Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project,
an unprecedented national, two-year effort to prepare specific recommendations
that local, state, and federal policymakers and criminal justice and
mental health professionals can use to improve the criminal justice
system's response to people with mental illness. Guided by a steering
committee of six organizations, and advised by over 100 of the most
respected criminal justice and mental health practitioners in the United
States, the Consensus Project provides concrete, practical approaches
that can be tailored to the unique needs of communities.
Drug War, Drug Policy
- National Institute
of Health (NIH) study "Drug Use Among Racial/Ethnic Minorities"
- Drug War Facts Researches
and posts articles with full citations and credible facts on issues
related to the drug war.
- Official statistics National Survey on Drug use and Health on drug use. Buried in these tables is the little-publicized fact that rates of illegal drug use for young people under age 26 are much LOWER for African Americans than for Whites, and that even for adults, the rates of recent illegal drug use are only slightly higher for African Americans than for Whites.
- Drug Sense.org and its
Media Awareness Project provide accurate
information relevant to drug policy in order to heighten awareness of
the extreme damage being caused to our nation and the world by our current
flawed and failed "War on Drugs." We aim to inform the public of the
existence of rational alternatives to the drug war, and to help organize
citizens to bring about needed reforms.
- Drug Reform Coordination Network
Extensive collection of news and analysis (updated often) plusa large
archive of information and links. Recent sections on links between drug
trade and terrorism.
- Drug War Distortions a web site devoted to countering common misinformation about the "drug war." Includes citations to relevant research literature.
- Federation of American
Scientists on Drug Policy
- Human Rights Watch
Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs.
Analysis of prison admissions & arrest data. A lot of facts &
figures.
- The Lindesmith Center Drug Policy
Foundation The Lindesmith Center - Drug Policy Foundation is a drug
policy organization working to broaden and better inform the public
debate on drug policy and related issues. The Lindesmith Center, created
in 1994, is the leading independent drug policy institute in the United
States. The Drug Policy Foundation, founded in 1987, represents over
25,000 supporters who favor alternatives to the current war on drugs
and is the principal membership-based organization advocating for drug
policy reform. The two organizations merged on July 1, 2000 with the
objective of building a national drug policy reform movement.
- Stateline.org is a publication
of the Pew Center on the States, which covers state-level news.
News article:
governors are rethinking punitive drug policies in light of their failures
and costs.
- http://www.breakingthechains.info/
Organizing Site for Conference in Sept. 2002 on People of Color and
the War on Drugs, sponsored by the Drug Policy Institute.
- These sites contain links to many other sites with a great deal of
infomation.
- Streetgangs.com is maintained by a UCLA geographer who focuses on LA gangs. Maps and information.
- Bruce Western's publications on the Social Impact of the Penal System.
- New
York Times on racial profiling
- Prison and Jail Inmates at Midyear 2001,
Bureau of Justice Statistics. Wisconsin is #1 in black incarceration.
- American Society of Criminology
Draft of National Policy White Paper "The Use of Incarceration in the
United States" November 2000. National Policy Committee:
James Austin, Marino A. Bruce, Leo Carroll, Patricia L. McCall, Stephen
C. Richards. Comments are requested by the authors. Direct
comments to James Austin
- "Justice on Trial:
Racial Disparities in the American Criminal Justice System."
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. A comprehensive review
of racial profiling, prosecution and sentencing disparities, with recommendations.
- Report on Minorities in the
Juvenile Justice System from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention
- "And
Justice for Some" report on racial disparities in juvenile justice.
- PreventingCrime.org
"Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising" published
by the National Institute of Justice, and other reports and links on
preventing crime, including why trying juveniles as adults may backfire,
and preventing gun violence. Reports available in brief and longer
versions. Easy-to-read summaries of research.
Publications By or For Prisoners
- Journal of Prisoners on Prisons JPP
is a prison written journal whose purpose is "to bring the knowledge
and experience of the incarcerated to bear upon more academic arguments
and concerns and to inform public discourse about the current state
of our correctional institutions"
Poverty and Human Welfare
- Wisconsin's Institute for Research
on Poverty
- Child Welfare League.
Advocates for child welfare. On-line child welfare data base,
other links.
- Inequality.Org A web site
devoted to collecting and communicating information about economic inequalities.
Lots of charts and graphs as well as longer articles and factoids.
- Institute
for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin) The site includes
specific information about poverty in the US and Wisconsin, as well
as links to other information. It has a map showing the distribution
of poverty in Wisconsin by census tract and a table showing poverty
rates in Wisconsin counties.
- Economic Policy Institute Lots
of reports, lots of data on wages, poverty, hardships.
- Census Bureau
Income Reports
- Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS)
Detailed projects and reports on economic development and well-being
in Wisconsin.
- Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
is a nonprofit, multi-issue child and family advocacy agency.
Site includes a variety of reports about welfare, poverty, employment,
abuse, and other issues relevant to the well-being of children and families.
- National Center for
Children in Poverty Seeking to reduce children in poverty.
- Research Forum
on Children, Families, and the New Federalism Collects and
makes available research reports relevant to welfare reform and child
well-being. Distinguishes reviewed from not-yet-reviewed research
reports.
- KidsCount Data Reports
funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
- Center for Disease Control, National
Center for Health Statistics Infant mortality and other measures
of well-being through health statistics.
- Institute for Policy Research research programon
poverty. and Joint Center for Poverty
Research (Northwestern University/University of Chicago)
- U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services - Poverty Guidelines Research,
papers and links to poverty related sites
- Institute on Race and Poverty - University
of Minnesota Law Center. Provides current and relevant information
on issues confronting communities facing combined challenges of race
and poverty.
- U.S.
Census Bureau - Poverty definition, thresholds, measurements, statistics
and guidelines.
- Allyn and Bacon Sociology Links to sites on social class and poverty.
- Center on Fathers, Familes,
and Public Policy. David Pate, PhD, director
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