Criminal Justice Subject Guide

Web Gateway Sites

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CrimeLynx

Created by a criminal defense attorney to help legal practitioners gather information, CrimeLynx claims to seek out the "best not the most of the web" and provides categories of links such as legal research, forensic and expert, investigation, and media, politics, and commentary.

Criminal Justice Profiles

A non-commercial site created to provide pertinent career information for students and professionals in the field of criminal justice. Content includes information about the nature of various careers in criminal justice, related salaries, criminal justice programs in higher education, an annotated list of job search sites, gateways, and more.

Cybrary

Developed by Dr. Frank Schmalleger, Director of the Justice Research Association, who has described the Cybrary as the definitive "search engine for CJ professionals and students" ( in an email to author 13 May 2002). The Cybrary references over 12,000 CJ-related web sites, including government and non-government publications, with annotations written by its staff. The "Top 100 Picks" is an added bonus that can help users uncover CJ information gems on the Web.

Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice Links

Created by a Florida State University instructor, this exhaustive guide uses a smorgasbord approach to hundreds of sites in CJ, delinquency, substance abuse, censorship, policing, forensics, law, CJ education, and CJ in the media. Links to a broad range of interesting listservs are also given.

Finding CJ Information for Individual or Multiple Countries

Finding CJ information for individual or multiple countries can be challenging. The UNCJIN and WJIN are two organizations whose missions address just that. These Networks were formed to serve as forums for international exchange and international clearinghouses for CJ information. Browsing the UNCJIN yields many links in categories such as CJ organizations by country, terrorism prevention, and global programs against corruption, trafficking in human beings, and organized crime. The WJIN site provides a handy search engine and multiple browsing options (e.g. by region or by language). Current CJ news and an international discussion list are added features. The WCJLN is unique in that librarians and CJ information specialists initiated it. Links to traditional materials, such as online periodicals or reference sources, statistics, as well as international or individual countries' resources, are included.

World Criminal Justice Library Network (WCJLN)

Created through a collaboration of librarians and criminal justice information specialists at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, New Jersey. This sizable site contains an extensive list of links to criminal justice-related sites for countries around the world, including statistical sources and bibliographies.

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