Sociology & Criminology

Administered by the FBI, the UCR is a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of nearly 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily reporting data on crimes brought to their attention since 1930.

Hosted at the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State University, this database is (to quote the website) "a collaborative research project on the history of violent crime, violent death, and collective violence." Data from the project are available for the United States and other countries.

Online access to and analysis of crime and justice data from federal and state agencies. The data cover topics such as attitudes towards crime, crime stats from official agencies, and the functioning of the criminal justice system. (Hosted by ICPSR.)

The NCJRS is an information center focused on criminal justice topics. They have an extensive website and a database of abstracts of all their holdings. Use the search box on their homepage to find abstracts of reports as well as other resources related to criminal justice topics. (This site contains primarily government (federal, state, local) reports ). Also search their knowledge base to find questions and answers related to criminal justice information and statistics.

Brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 1,000 tables. The site is updated regularly as new statistics become available. The Sourcebook is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

(literature reviews)