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The following is a list of Professional Organizations for
Criminal Justice and Criminology Researchers and Educators
*** It is encouraged that you take a look at these organizations
because many of them have undergraduate student paper competitions
which you are eligible for and could receive formal recognition and
possible monetary rewards.
The following is list of a few of the federal agencies which
disseminate information obtained from research.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics (provides statistics on
crime and victim, law enforcement, prosecutors, correction,
judicial system, and a wide variety of other criminal justice
related information) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
- Bureau of Justice Assistance (provides leadership and
services in grant administration and criminal justice policy
development ) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/about/aboutbja.html
- Campus Security (provides reports of crimes that occur
on college and university campuses throughout the US) http://www.securityoncampus.org/crimestats/index.html
- Federal Statistics (provides a full range of official
statistical information available to the public from the Federal
Government http://www.fedstats.gov/
- Hate Crimes Statistics (provides statistics on crimes
that have been classified as a hate crime) http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm#hate
- Juvenile Justice Evaluation Center (assist juvenile
justice practitioners, policymakers, and state agency
administrators with the assessment and evaluation of programs
and initiatives.) http://www.jrsa.org/jjec/
- National Institute of Justice (This is the research,
development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of
Justice) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/
- National Criminal Justice Reference Center (offers
justice and substance abuse information to support research,
policy, and program development worldwide) http://www.ncjrs.gov/
- National Crime Victimization Survey (provides
information on crime victims) http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm
- Office of Juveniles Justice and Delinquency Prevention
(provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to
prevent and respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization) http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/
- Uniform Crime Rate (provides national statistics on the
crime rate) http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
for more information)
National Criminal Justice Organizations
Federal Criminal
Justice Agencies
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