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Academic Websites
British Journal of Criminology
Publishes articles written by academics and researchers working in the field of criminology.
Casetrack (Law)
Casetrack is the definitive source of full text judgements on the Internet.
Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Non-partisan body - aims to foster inter-agency and inter-disciplinary collaboration in the field of education, training and research and in the administration of criminal justice
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
Based at the University of Leeds, the Centre was established to pursue research into criminal justice systems and criminological issues. It does this by fostering an active multi-disciplinary academic environment for teaching and research.
Centre for Drug Misuse Research
The University of Glasgow Centre for Drug Misuse Research was created in 1994 to provide a centre for research into various topics related to drugs misuse. The website also includes pages of current projects, publications and useful links.
Centre for Social Action
National centre for youth work and social work research, information and in-service training. The website provides useful information for social workers and those working with young people. A number of publications are available from the organisation.
City Watch - Leicester Against Crime
The website for the partnership between local businesses and the Police encouraging information sharing and crime reduction in the Leicester City area.
Criminal Justice Press
The Criminal Justice Press is an independent publisher specialising in books and journals for criminologists, criminal justice system professionals, libraries and students.
Criminology Courses
The British Society of Criminology's website also has a list of and links to criminology courses in UK universities.
CrimLinks
Criminal and community justice and criminology are expanding fast. There is huge demand for information in these areas. CrimLinks helps practitioners, academics and students find key online sources quickly.
Demos
An independent think-tank and research institute, influential in government circles. Its role is to help reinvigorate public policy and political thinking and to develop radical solutions to long term problems.
Design Against Crime Research Centre: Frameworks for crime prevention and community safety
This website gives access (via directly downloadable documents, links or references) to Paul Ekblom's papers and presentations on the 5Is and Conjunction of Criminal Opportunity frameworks, and associated material including key definitions.
Duhaime's Law Directory
Researched, written in plain language and provided free of charge
Economic and Social Research Council
A leading British funding agency for research and training into social and economic issues. Findings of research can be accessed from the website, which also has good links.
The ESRC Social Contexts of Pathways in Crime
SCoPiC (the study of the social contexts of pathways into crime) is a five-year ESRC-funded research programme which aims to achieve a better understanding of how young people become involved in crime.
Foresight Crime Prevention Panel
Produced a consultation document entitled 'Just around the Corner' that tries to predict what the major crime problems will be in 2020. A consultation document is available free.
Institute of Criminology
Cambridge University centre of criminological research and teaching.
Lexis - Nexis (Law)
LEXIS-NEXIS provide one of the world's largest collection of news, legal and business information online. It is a source of business intelligence, serving the information needs of over 1.8 million business, legal, government, media and academic professionals in more than 60 countries.
Policy Studies Institute (PSI)
A leading British social and economic research institute. Undertakes and publishes research studies relevant to social, economic and industrial policy.
Life Academy
is an educational charity, which has been working with the DfES on an initiative called Learn About Money. Its objective is to address the need for basic financial education. PRA offer a set of educational materials (Workbooks, CDROMs, Web Site) to enable people to gain access to basic financial money matters and to increase their understanding. It also aims to help offenders return to society by increasing their awareness and confidence in handling basic money matters.
Regard
Helps you locate and explore social science research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
The Scarman Centre for the Study of Public Order
Offers courses and resources on security, criminal justice and public order issues.
WestLaw
Westlaw UK is the most up-to-date online legal research tool available. Data from essential sources is combined to meet the needs of the modern practice, providing fresh information from the UK, Europe and the United States.
Last update: Friday, September 01, 2006