Research Guides: #Criminal Justice: Online Sources

Government Websites

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Search for publications from the various justice offices. NOTE: not all articles are available online. Look for "PDF" or "HTML" to access.
National Institute of Justice
NIJ develops performance standards for justice agencies to identify shortfalls in capabilities that might be addressed by a new technology, performance standard for a technology, or an improved conformity assessment program.
Homeland Security Digital Libary
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.

Organizations

National Inventory of the Collateral Consequences of Conviction
Interactive tool to collect and study collateral consequences of a criminal conviction—legal sanctions and restrictions imposed upon people because of their criminal record— in all U.S. jurisdictions.
The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Nonprofit nonpartisan organization whose mission is to reduce society’s reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems by providing direct services, technical assistance, and policy analysis to promote a balanced and humane criminal justice system.
Justice Information Resource Network
National nonprofit organization dedicated to the use of nonpartisan research and analysis to inform criminal and juvenile justice decision-making.

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Formerly Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA)
The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization focused on aspects of the U.S. criminal justice system.

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Content includes original essays and collected news reports on key topics.

Podcasts

Criminal (In)justice
Criminal Injustice explores the most complex and urgent issues facing the U.S. criminal justice system in conversation with the field's most knowledgeable experts. Professor David Harris and guests take on everything from racial bias to use of force... from surveillance technology to mass incarceration... and from police abuse and misconduct to the astonishing, frequently hilarious misdeeds of "Lawyers Behaving Badly." It's not a lecture hall, and you don't need a law degree to keep up. But you'll walk away from each episode with a deeper, richer understanding of what's wrong with the criminal justice system – and how to fix it.
Just Science
Just Science is a podcast for justice professionals and anyone interested in learning more about forensic science, innovative technology, current research, and actionable strategies to improve the criminal justice system.  This podcast deals with a range of issues, including leadership in the crime lab, new technologies, sexual assault response, and broader challenges for science and public security. We cover every type of forensic discipline, including DNA, fingerprints, trace evidence, toxicology, controlled substances, crime scene investigation, and much more!
Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice
All kids make dumb mistakes. But depending on your zip code, race or just bad luck, those mistakes can have a lasting impact. Mass incarceration starts young. In Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice, hear from kids about the moment they collided with law and order, and how it changed them forever.
Serial
Serial unfolds one story - a true story - over the course of a whole season. The show follows the plot and characters wherever they lead, through many surprising twists and turns.

Season 1 in particular deals with the criminal justice system.