American Criminal Law Review
http://www.law.georgetown.edu/journals/aclr/
The American Criminal Law Review is a leading US print journal of criminal law published by students at the Georgetown University Law Center. The journal is produced four times a year and features articles by professors, practitioners and others that aim to provide timely treatment of significant developments in constitutional and criminal law. Each Spring ACLR also publishes an annual survey of white collar crime. The website gives contents listings from volume 34 onwards with subscription and submission details.
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Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill 2001
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmhaff/351/35102
This site provides access to the text and associated proceedings of the Home Affairs Select Committee which were published in November 2001 as HC351 session 2001-02, ISBN 010 5000404. These provided background information on the parliamentary consideration of terrorist legislation and summarise the main measures of the bill. Attention is paid to human rights issues relating to the detention of suspected international terrorists, religious hate offences and measures to be taken against hoax terrorist offences.
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Belgium: Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes - FATF Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/scr/2006/cr0672.pdf
Online report published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2005 and made freely available on their website. The report was prepared by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) and is presented in full text PDF. The report provides a summary of the anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism measures in force in Belgium and includes recommendations for strengthening the system. There are sections looking at the legal system and related institutional measures, preventative measures in place and national and international cooperation.
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Buffalo Criminal Law Center
http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/
The website of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center provides an overview of the Center's mission, programmes of study, and research activities. The center is based at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and aims to help students in their advanced research into criminal law, as well as acting as an advisory body to US state and federal legislatures about criminal justice issues. The site gives details of the Herbert Wechsler National Criminal Law Moot Court Competition, and the Center's own LL.M. programme in Criminal Law. It also offers information about the Buffalo Criminal Law Review, 1997-2006, and its relaunch as New Criminal Law Review from 2007. Online access to past issues is provided. There are a number of entry points to access criminal law materials and resources, including the Penal Law Web, a tool which can be used to help trace materials on penal law, and materials on victims and the criminal law.
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Canadian Criminal Law
http://canadiancriminallaw.com/home.htm
The Canadian Criminal Law website is maintained by Bruce A. MacFarlane, Q.C. the Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney for the Province of Manitoba in Canada from 1993 to 2005. The site includes a selection of full-text articles by Bruce MacFarlane covering criminal law topics such as stalking, rape and the appointment of Queen's Cousel in Manitoba. The articles can be viewed in HTML of PDF format. The site also has a list of links to Canadian law sites.
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Capital Cases Resources
njc-capitalcases@judges.org
Online collection of resources focusing on capital cases and aimed at state trial judges, in the United States, dealing with capital cases. The site is made freely available by the National Judicial College as part of the Litigation Initiative designed to provide training and technical assistance to state trial judges to improve the reliability of verdicts in capital cases and to assist state trial judges in managing capital cases. United States Supreme Court cases concerning capital punishment are provided with links to the full text on Westlaw and Findlaw. There are resources specific to each of the US Circuit Courts including cases and capital punishment handbooks along with state resources including links to courts, cases, organisations, legislation and academic resources specific to each state. Links are also given to publications dealing with the death penalty organised by topic. Topics include jury selection, mental health issues, appointment of counsel and international issues. Parts of the site are still under development. Some of the resources linked to require a subscription or password.
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Center for Jury Studies
http://www.ncsconline.org/D_Research/cjs/index.html
The Center for Jury Studies is a research organisation and project funded by the National Center for State Courts in the United States. The Center provides technical assistance to state and local courts on jury system management. Examples of this work can be downloaded from the site. Topics covered include representation of ethnic minorities on juries, juror stress, hung juries and the impact of Employer Tax on increasing the size of the juror pool. There is also information on the Centers work concerned with improving citizen participation in jury service -the National Jury Program and downloads are available from the State-of-the-States Survey of Jury Improvement Efforts which looks at jury operations in state courts. Details of other publications including some freely available reports are provided in PDF on the site.
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Center on Law and Security
http://www.lawandsecurity.org
Website of the Center on Law and Security a think tank based at the New York University School of Law which brings together academics, practitioners and policymakers in the fields of law and security. The site has organisational information, profiles of faculty and staff and details of courses and publications of the Center. These include book details, full text (PDF) copies of the Centers newsletter NYU Review of Law and Security, a collection of Terrorist Trial Report Cards providing details of terrorism-related court cases brought since 9/11, conference papers and other reports and articles. Details of past and future events organised by the Center are also given on the site.
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Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (CCJS)
http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/
The Centre is "an independent charity at King's College London that informs and educates about all aspects of crime and the criminal justice system". CCJS publishes the 'British Journal of Criminology' and produces a quarterly magazine, 'Criminal Justice Matters' .The site provides online access to the centre's publications and a list of archived publications. There is an events diary listing forthcoming conferences, seminars and meetings on criminal justice; and a news section giving access to press releases, articles, and consultation responses.
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Charge or release: terrorism pre-charge detention comparative law study
http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/issues/pdfs/pre-charge-detention-com
This site provides free access to the full text of a 65 page report published in November 2007 by human rights group Liberty. It contains a survey of the number of days terrorist suspects can be held without trial in 15 democratic nations. It argues that the British position exceeds most other developed nations.
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Comparative criminal procedure: a select bibliography
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Comparative_Criminal_Procedure.htm
Annotated online guide to resources dealing with comparative criminal procedure written by Lyonette Louis-Jacques who is Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library. The guide was published in 2007 on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. The author covers criminal procedure generally, criminal procedure in multiple jurisdictions and specific topics such as arrest, interrogation, plea bargaining, trial by jury, sentencing and appeals. Resources are organised by type including books, book chapters, journals and journal articles with links to online resources where available. The guide includes links to free and subscription sites providing access to primary legal materials and links to organisations and research institutes.
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Complete Newgate Calendar
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/completenewgate.htm
A digitised version of the Complete Newgate Calendar. This is a five volume collection published in 1926 giving accounts of famous crimes and criminal trials from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This publication is one of the e-texts which form part of the Law in Popular Culture Collection at the Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas, School of Law. The site includes background information about Newgate prison and a keyword search option. Each volume contains images and an index.
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Contemporary Justice Review
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10282580.asp
The Contemporary Justice Review is a quarterly journal published by Routledge concerned with "new models and demonstration projects of justice that have applicability for creating just social arrangements at the local to the international level". The journal contains substantive articles, interviews and book and film reviews with contents and abstracts from 2002 onwards made freely available online. Recent topics covered in the journal include zero tolerance, restorative justice and the death penalty in America.
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Cornell Death Penalty Project
http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/death/
The Cornell Death Penalty Project is based at the Cornell Law School in New York. The aim of the Project is to foster "scholarship related to the death penalty and its administration". The Project conducts research and sponsors a clinic enabling students to assist with the representation of capital defendants. The site includes details of clinic case studies and a list of articles on the death penalty written by faculty members. Links are given to the full articles which are made available on subscription services, Westlaw and Lexis Nexis. The site also provides details of events and links to related web resources.
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Council of Europe: action against economic crime
http://www.coe.int/t/dg1/legalcooperation/economiccrime/default_en.asp
Website of the Economic Crime Division of the Council, of Europe (COE) which brings together information on the work of various committees of the COE relating to economic crime. Conventions, projects, standards and details of monitoring and other activities of the COE are grouped under the following topic headings: corruption; money laundering; cybercrime; judicial cooperation; exploitation of human beings and organised crime. There is information on projects providing support to the anti corruption strategies in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine, protection against money laundering and the financing of terrorism in Moldova, against economic crime in the Republic of Serbia and cybercrime. Details of conferences, meetings, other events and press releases are also available on this page. The site can be viewed in English and French.
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Counter Money Laundering
http://www.countermoneylaundering.com/
The Counter Money Laundering website is a resource for professionals in law, banking and financial services. The site includes information about money laundering with sections on the history of money laundering, who launders money and why they do it, money laundering and the euro and the funding of terrorism. The site is maintained by Silkscreen Consulting, a money laundering and fraud prevention company providing training and consultancy.
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Crime and Justice Data Online
http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/dataonline/
Database for official United States crime and law enforcement statistics, created and maintained by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the statistical agency for the US Department of Justice. The database is divided into 5 distinct areas: crime trends from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports for all 50 States and about 3,900 local agencies; homicide trends and characteristics for all 50 States and localities of more than 250,000 population; law enforcement management and administrative statistics for state and local agencies with more than 100 sworn officers; justice expenditure and employment by region; and a list of all prosecutors' offices in the United States. Searching is carried out on a step-by-step basis whereby the user selects one of the above areas, then type of agency, and then from, for example, state-by state and national trends, trends in one variable, and one year of data. The database is freely accessibly is HTML.
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Crime in the United States
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm#cius
Report on crime in the United States produced annually by the Federal Bureau for Investigation (FBI) and made freely available on their website. The report collates data from approximately 17,000 law enforcement jurisdictions and taking account of geographic and demographic factors identifies and examines trends in crime from a national perspective. The sections of the report include an introduction to the crime reporting program, a breakdown of the types of offences reported and offences cleared, an examination of number of arrests made for each category of crime and the types of persons arrested, and an assessment of the deployment of law enforcement personnel. Each section utilises a range of tables and charts to portray the statistical data. Reports are available annually back to 1995.
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Crime Research Centre
http://www.crc.law.uwa.edu.au/
The 'Crime Research Centre' is part of Law School at the University of Western Australia. Focusing on crime within Western Australia the centre produces a wide range of information from statistical data files to individual reports of cases studies.
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Crimeinfo
http://www.crimeinfo.org.uk/
Online information resource compiled by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at Kings College London. The site offers an overview on the subject of crime including facts,statistics and links to further resources. A series of fact sheets provide information on a range of subjects including young people and crime, women and crime, causes of crime, sentencing and punishment and human rights. There is also a Topic of the Month section which gives a more in-depth look at a particular criminal justice topic such as prisons. Other features on the site include true stories, interactive quizzes and sentencing exercises and a glossary of terms. A page of web links to other criminal justice resources is also given.
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CrimeLine
http://www.crimeline.info/
CrimeLine is an online weekly journal made freely available when you register on the website. CrimeLine is produced by Andrew Keogh of Keogh Solicitors and is aimed at criminal lawyers featuring legal news, recent cases, new legislation and training. Case digests link to Casetrack providing access to full text judgments. The site also includes a wiki specifically concerned with criminal law in England and Wales. Subjects can be browsed or searched by keyword. Searching takes you to specific pages where they exist or highlights references to the keyword on other pages. Other facilities on the site include a distance learning CPD scheme, a help page and discussion forum.
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CrimeLynx
http://www.crimelynx.com/
CrimeLynx is a web portal produced by Colorado based criminal defence attorney Jeralyn Merritt. The site is aimed at criminal defence practitioners with an emphasis on US law. There is a comprehensive collection of legal research links covering Federal criminal statutes, rules and circuit court opinions, Supreme Court materials, criminal defence organisations and resources focusing on the death penalty and computer crime. There are also links to investigative tools and policy organisations. Other sections compile links to sites providing legal news stories, law blogs, legal research and writing materials and constitutional documents.
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Crimes Against Children Research Center
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/
Website of the Crimes Against Children Research Center (CCRC) which is based at the University of New Hampshire in the United States. The aim of the CCRC is to "combat crimes against children by providing high quality research and statistics to the public, policy makers, law enforcement personnel, and other child welfare practitioners". The site has profiles of researchers, details of publications and links to related websites. There is also information on CCRC's current research topics including bullying, child victimisation, juvenile prostitution, the internet, kidnapping and abuse. As well as background information on the topics there are links to articles, fact sheets and other materials.
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Criminal Cases Review Commission
http://www.ccrc.gov.uk/
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is the government body which investigates suspected miscarriages of justice in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Its website provides information on the purpose and organisation of the body as well as its ongoing work. The latter includes statistics on the number of applications made to the body, recent press releases, references (and some full text) to recent referred cases heard by the Court of Appeal. The site also offers information on recent proposed reforms of the UK criminal justice system, forms for applications to the CCRC and lists of law firms willing to assist applicants. Some publications such as the Annual Report and Management Statement can be viewed in part on the website or downloaded in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
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Criminal Defense Investigation Training Council
http://www.defenseinvestigator.com/index.html
Website of the Criminal Defense Investigation Training Council (CDITC) an organisation providing education and training within the discipline of criminal defense investigation and established to encourage a dialogue among professionals and scholars involved in various aspects of criminal defense investigation. The site provides details of qualifications, training events and seminars offered by the CDITC. Contact details for the Executive Council and Advisory Board of the CDITC are given along with a directory of members arranged by state. A selection of full text articles are made freely available on the site covering topics such as the role of the defence investigator, defence of entrapment cases and crime controls and due process models.
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