Criminal Justice LTI: Additional Resources

United States' primary source for statistics within the criminal justice system: crime, prisons, demographics, police, etc.

The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to serve the media, policymakers, and the general public with data and analysis on issues concerning capital punishment and the people it affects. DPIC does not take a position on the death penalty itself but is critical of problems in its application.

NIJ is the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Collection of Crime statistics in the U.S. as reported to the FBI by over 17,000 law enforcement agencies on an annual basis. Organized by type of crime.

The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, is the Nation’s central hub for reporting cyber crime. It is run by the FBI, the lead federal agency for investigating cyber crime. Here on our website, you can take two vital steps to protecting cyberspace and your own online security.

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP’s) Model Programs Guide contains information about evidence-based juvenile justice and youth prevention, intervention, and reentry program.

The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) is the place to discover, access, and analyze data on crime and justice.

The Office of Justice Programs is the largest grantmaking component of the Department of Justice and houses the Department’s criminal and juvenile justice-related science, statistics, and programmatic agencies. OJP provides federal leadership, funding, training and technical assistance, research and statistics, and other critical resources to advance work that strengthens community safety, promotes civil rights and equity, increases access to justice, supports crime victims and individuals impacted by the justice system, and builds trust between law enforcement and communities.

The NIJ is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science.

OJJDP conducts and supports high-quality, rigorous research, evaluations, and statistical analysis across a range of juvenile justice topical areas.

Oyez is a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Justia, and Chicago-Kent College of Law—is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is the most complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.

A compilation of data on social, economic, and physical aspects of the State.

The mission of the Department of Justice is to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights.

Lists policies, facilities, research & statistics as well and resources for families.

The RI Law Library serves the reference and research needs of the bench and the bar. As a publicly funded institution committed to access to justice, the library is open to all.

The city of Providence provides access to case and arrest logs on the City’s Open Data Portal under the category Public Safety. Information is updated nightly, and can be searched and filtered, and downloaded in a variety of formats.