Crime And Justice
Government and legal information available at WIU on related topics:
- NCJRS
- Search the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database, or use the NCJRS website, which allows access to their many topical reports. Subjects include drugs and crime, corrections, courts, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims. For links to NCJ Publications by number, see our NCJ page.
- U.S. Department of Justice
- You can link to individual agencies within the Department from here or use the list below to link to the most frequently used pages.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
- This site houses a lot of reports on Crime(s) and Victims, most of which can be downloaded; statistics and surveys galore.
- Drug Enforcement Agency
- Publications and reports from DEA on drug use/abuse and policy.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Check out the FBI 10 Most Wanted Fugitives as well as information on famous current and historical FBI investigations. Also review issues of the ever-popular FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Nov 1989 to Oct 1996 zipped files; Jan 1996 to present in html).
- FEDSTATS
- A good starting point for federal statistical information, this site is a search engine that leads you to agency pages containing pertinent information to your topic.
- Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
- Data on crime by county; plus links to local police departments and sheriff's offices and other sites of interest.
- Illinois State Police
- This page contains a lot of useful links and information on Illinois gangs, unsolved crimes, missing persons, wanted felons and crime statistics. See also the state publication Crime In Illinois.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (Adobe only)
- The book of criminal justice statistics contains state data on arrests, budgets, crimes, criminals, prisoners, sentences, and surveys. If it's a statistic you 're looking for, you'll likely find it here.
- Uniform Crime Reports (Crime in the United States)
- Statistics collected by the FBI on crimes (national, regional, county, and place levels) arrests, arrestees, and police departments. Please note: the State of Illinois does not present its data for this collection.
- Uniform Crime Reports County Data (interactive)
- This interactive version includes county-level data on arrests for specific crimes. You can create customized data sets.
- FBI's Ten Mosted Wanted Fugitives
- See the faces and read the stories about these (and other) fugitives from justice.
