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Developments in the areas of terrorism, violence and militias have increased in recent years, months and weeks, such as the Oklahoma bombing, unresolved questions surrounding the explosion and crash of Flight 800, the recent bombing of an abortion clinic and then Sept. 11. These links, and those found within them, may be helpful in understanding and interpreting these instances of violence. Is this the beginning of a tornado of violence that is about to befall the US or a continuation of past patterns of violence and terrorism?

• Trac's latest, Criminal Enforcement Against Terrorism Report on the vigorousness with which law enforcement has approached terrorism before and after Sept. 11. There are some important statistics to learn there.
  
  
• After September 11: Perspectives from the Social Sciences An updated collection of writings on terrorism in the wake of Sept. 11.
  
• The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism , a wide range of materials.
  
  
• Organized Crime and Corruption Bibliographic Database
  
  
• Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption
  
  
• United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. There's information about a related conference available here as well.
  
  
  
• Terrorism Research Center
  
  
  
• Other information on militias
  
  
  
• Covert Action Quarterly interesting journal.
  
  
• The World Wide Web of Terrorism.
  
  
• Five chapters from Raddai Raikhlin, Civil War, Terrorism and Gangs: The System of Sociology and Social Dynamics

• Crime Links - Organized Crime, Most Wanted, Human Rights, etc.

Gangs

• John Hagedorn's Gang Research On-Line This is a really important web site about gangs, young and old. The message here is fundamental and powerful. Worth checking out!

The Holocaust and Genocide (and Eugenics)

• The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy This is a dazzling and award-winning web site that was created by a young Sonoma County student. The site incorporates a multimedia presentation on the holocaust (into which I would also include genocide). There is a wealth of information here, some obtained through Sonoma State University's Holocaust Studies Center, ranging from photos and sound files (e.g., interviews with survivors) to plenty of hypertext links to related sites and information.
  
  
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust Excellent site with teaching related materials included.
  
  
• Cybrary of the Holocaust
  
  
• Eugenics Archive Reproductive war with the lower class, justified with Darwinism and other ideologies. This issue is still very much alive.
  
  
• SSU's Holocaust Lecture Series
  
  
• The Lost Art Internet Database This site includes goods stolen or transported due to persecution or National Socialism. Sponsored by Germany and its states.
  
  
  

  Arson

  Someone once wrote that arson is the most neglected crime on earth; practice suggests that it is still neglected although the implied comparison might be questioned. See some of the above links under terrorism that deal with arson. There is a great need for a comprehensive arson web site. The neglect of arson is reflected in the near absence of arson links on most web pages dealing with crime. Many of the links below deal with fire suppression or control. This is inevitable given the close relationship between suppression, control and determination of intentionally set fires.
  

• National Fire Protection Association on fire investigations
  
  
• The Arson and Explosives National Repository, from the ATF includes three databases: Explosives Incident System (EXIS), from 1975 to 1995; National Fire Incident Reporting System from 1981 to 1995; and Church Arson Task Force Data, from 1995 to 1997. Enjoy creating a five-year incident summary for any state.
  
  
• The NFPA (previous) site includes various reports, some on-line and others for a fee. The Oklahoma City Bombing and Rescue Operation Report of April 19, 1995 is on-line.
  
  
• National Interagency Fire Center
  
  
• FEMA's state by state count of church burnings

Juvenile Justice 

• Juvenile Justice Site
• Death Penalty
• Domestic Violence/Violence Against Women
• Drugs and Drug Policy

• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics, Indicators of School Crime and Safety 1998 , in html or pdf.
  
  
• The American Bar Assocation's Juvenile Justice Center
  
  
• Children Now The state of children in California. This site contains a report card on California children along with a summary of a study of girls in the media. Take this link to the 1999 report in pdf or this link to read it in html without the tables or figures.
  
  
• Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children The latest study on how companies market videos, etc. with violent content to kids under eighteen.
  
  
• Principles of Restorative Justice as applied to Juvenile Justice: The Leuven Declaration , also linked under the " System Critique and Reform " section on the next page. Open your mind to alternative principles for transforming the juvenile justice system that do not merely center on punishment and more punishment.
  
  
• Restorative Justice: An Annotated Bibliography Over 500 entries on the Prison Fellowship International web site.
  
  
• National Report on Juvenile Offenders and Victims 1999 , Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Planning, is touted as the "most comprehensive source of information about juvenile crime, violence, and victimization..."
  
  
• Youth Crime Gun Interdiction Initiative , by the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, 1998 (470 pp.), in PDF.
  
  
• Research Forum on Children, Families and the New Federalism , at the Columbia School of Public Health.
  
  
• Juvenile Justice from NCJRS
  
  
• FSU's Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse
  
  
• Child Quest International
  
  
• Idaho Youth Ranch This ranch indicates that it uses balanced and restorative justice principles.
  
  
• International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour
  
  
• Island Youth Programs -Texas
  
  
• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
  
  
• National Youth Gang Center
  
  
• National Youth Network
  
  
• MIFA - Juvenile Crime Research
  
  
• Gangs in Los Angeles County
  
  
• US Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Children and Youth Policy
  
  
• UNICEF Annual Reports:
  
  • State of the World's Children 2004
  • Progress of Nations 1997
  • State of the World's Children 1999
  • State of the World's Children 1997
  • Prior reports
  • via gopher-gopher to: gopher.unicef.org
• Some writings on juvenile justice, delinquency and control.
  
  
  

Death Penalty

• Illinois Governor Ryan's Commission on Capital Punishment A former republican governor facing flawed and irrevocable decisions.
  
  
• Before the Needles The death penalty before lethal injection.
  
  
• A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995 , in pdf format. Of every capital conviction and appeal from 1973-1995 (about 5,500 decisions), 68 percent were thrown out on appeal.
  
  
• Capital Punishment 2002 , from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
  
  
• Survey of the Federal Death Penalty System, 2000 The latest study of the federal system that finds widespread disparities in death sentences by race and geography.
  
  
• Death penalty executions : a continuous count, including the name of dead inmates, race, and type of execution.
  
  
• The US Department of Justice, Capital Punishment 1998 This has the basic characteristics of the condemned, and over time.
  
  
• The United States of America: Rights for All Fatal Flaws: Innocence and the Death Penalty -- Amnesty International A report on the execution of wrongfully convicted and innocent people in the US.
  
  
• Death Penalty News An electronic newsletter on the U.S. Death Penalty and its uses. Updated approximately every two weeks. It Includes executions by year and state, addresses and related links.
  
  
• Death Penalty: The Ultimate Revenge, The Bruderhof Communities
  
  
• Critical Criminology's collection , which is very good.
  
  
• Bureau of Justice Statistics Corrections information on capital punishment
  
  
• The Death Penalty Information Center A resource center for the public and media on the death penalty.
  
  
• Dead Man Talkin' by Dean A death row inmate at San Quentin writes about life on the row.
  
  
• Bedeau's evaluation of the death penalty
  
  
• Ethics Videos on the Web Go to Punishment and the Death Penalty . Lots of resources.

Domestic Violence/Violence Against Women

• Violence in Families: Assessing Prevention and Treatment Programs

  A book that examines over a hundred studies on the effects of program intended to deal with family violence. Definitely worth checking out.

• Human Rights Watch - Global Report on Women's Human Rights As the sponsorship and content suggest, this gets at international abridgement of women's rights. This is a lengthy and depressing documentation and criticism of the abuse, prostitution, forced labor, and related oppression of women in many countries.
  
  
• Rape as Social Murder An account of the rape of anthropology professor Cathy Winkler written by Professor Winkler. Originally published in Anthropology Today.
  
  
• The 1997 and 1998 issues of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Crime in the United States includes special issues on juvenile crime and family violence, respectively.
  
  
• "Not Part of My Sentence" -- Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody , from Amnesty International.
  
  
• The Sonoma County Domestic Violence Policy Committee Final Report This report examines the problem of domestic violence intervention and the criminal justice system in light of public response to the killing of Maria Teresa Macias by her husband. This link takes you to the Table of Contents. This link is repeated below under "Mostly Local."
  
  
• Cybergrrl has a good list of links.
  
  
• The Women's Studies Resources page is very helpful too.
  
  
• Men Against Domestic Violence adds some more sources.
  
  
• Satore Township deals with workplace violence, including domestic violence, and aspires to much more--a kind of watering hole for criminologists on the internet.
  
  
• The Feminist Majority Foundation See this vast and comprehensive site on feminist, including information directly relevant to criminology--e.g., reproductive rights, and gender apartheid in Afghanistan.
  
  
• See the section under "Terrorism" to learn about recent ATF data on arsons and bombings of abortion clinics.
  
  
• The Sexual Assault Information Page An updated site with an extensive collection.
  
  
• Pathfinder on Domestic Violence with Emphasis on the Criminal Justice System , a bibliographic paper by Katherine Diaz on information about domestic violence. Be sure to see the interactive book version of the Pathfinder.
  
  
• Sonoma State University's own "Workplace Violence Prevention and Response Program".
  
  
• See the World Criminal Justice Library Network bibliography on Women and Domestic Violence.
  
  
• On Law and Sexuality at Yahoo.
  
  

The Drug War, Drugs and Drug Policy

• The Lindesmith Center - Drug Policy Foundation , now joined together, offers the largest collection of full-text materials on drugs and drug policy, latest news headlines, discussion forums to share insights and ideas with other drug policy reform activists, tools and suggestions for 'taking action' on this issue, sign-up forms for e-mail alert lists, and other membership services.
  
  
• Drug Wars -- PBS _Frontline A companion to PBS's excellent "Frontline" on the drug war and Drug-Wars -- NPR is the NPR "All Things Considered" companion to "Frontline."
  
  
• Drug Reform Coordination Network (DRCNET) Join their e-mail list to get the latest information on the drug war. The DRCNET site claims to have the world's largest on-line library of drug policy material.
  
  See, for example, " The American Drug Panic of the 1980s " Chapter 12 of Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance by Erich Goode & Nachman Ben-Yehuda.
  
  
• 2002 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse by the Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Here are state level estimates of illicit drugs, cigarettes and alcohol by age, including the brands of cigarettes smoked by Americans.
  
  
• International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 1998
  
  
• Sentencing of drug offenders as a human rights violation Check out Human Rights Watch Publications' "Cruel and Usual: Disproportionate Sentences for New York Drug Offenders"
  
  
• Stop Drugs Information on drug enforcement, prevention, and treatment by the California Department of Justice and the California Narcotic Officers' Association. The featured drug at this time (12/17/99) is methamphetamine.
  
  
• Does Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) work? This is certainly enough positive hype out there. Here is an alternative view about the effectiveness of DARE.
  
  
• Drugs & Crime Facts - Bureau of Justice Statistics data on illegal drugs and the effect on the criminal justice system.
  
  
• CESAR A free bulletin board administered by the Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR). Available via FAX or e-mail.
  
  
• The Web of Addictions An index of web resources.
  
  
• The The Marijuana Policy Project.
  

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