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Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals."
Annual Reviews*
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Annual Review publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific literature. Annual Reviews are published each year for 46 disciplines within the Bio-medical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
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BJS collects, analyses, and disseminates criminal justice related data and reports.
CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar California) OnLAW*
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
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" Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide."
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Oxford Bibliographies Online. Criminology
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"Peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on the study of crime as a social phenomenon."
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Criminal Justice Issues & News

California Budget & Policy Center
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"The California Budget & Policy Center (formerly the California Budget Project) was founded in 1995 to fill a serious unmet need: for a credible, independent source of information on how budget and tax policies affect low- and middle-income Californians."
Criminal Injustice
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"Criminal Injustice discusses the always current, sometimes disturbing, frequently confusing and often shocking aspects of the American criminal justice system. Weekly episodes examine issues like police body cameras, racial biases, use of force and incarceration through wide-ranging interviews with national figures in the know. It's not a lecture hall, and you don't need a law degree to keep up. The podcast is, above all else, a conversation"
Crime Report
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"The Crime Report (TCR) is the nation’s only comprehensive news service covering the diverse challenges and issues of 21st century criminal justice in the U.S. and abroad. Staffed by working journalists in New York, Washington and Los Angeles, it is published daily through the year by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. "
Marshall Project
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"The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. We achieve this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums. In all of our work we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice."

Policy - Mass Incarceration

Drug Policy Alliance
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"The Drug Policy Alliance envisions a just society in which the use and regulation of drugs are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights, in which people are no longer punished for what they put into their own bodies but only for crimes committed against others, and in which the fears, prejudices and punitive prohibitions of today are no more."
FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums)
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"FAMM (Families Against Mandatory Minimums) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization fighting for smart sentencing laws that protect public safety. We see a country where criminal sentencing is individualized, humane, and sufficient to impose fair punishment and protect public safety."
Prison Policy Initiative
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"The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization"
Sentencing Law & Policy
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"Professor Berman is the sole creator and author of the widely-read and widely-cited blog, Sentencing Law and Policy. The blog now receives nearly 100,000 page views per month (and had over 20,000 hits the day of the Supreme Court’s major sentencing decision in United States v. Booker). Professor Berman’s work on the Sentencing Law and Policy blog, which he describes as a form of “scholarship in action,” has been profiled or discussed at length in articles appearing in the Wall Street Journal, Legal Affairs magazine, Lawyers Weekly USA, Legal Times, Columbus Monthly, and in numerous other print and online publications."
The Sentencing Project
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"Expediting the end of mass incarceration will require accelerating the end of the Drug War and scaling back sentences for serious crimes."
Vera's Institute of Justice
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"We work with others who share our vision to tackle the most pressing injustices of our day—from the causes and consequences of mass incarceration, racial disparities, and the loss of public trust in law enforcement, to the unmet needs of the vulnerable, the marginalized, and those harmed by crime and violence."

Gun Violence Archive (GVA)
"Gun Violence Archive (GVA) provides free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States. GVA will collect and check for accuracy, comprehensive information about gun-related violence in the U.S. and then post and disseminate it online."

Crime Report - Full Text Available By Subscription

About The Crime Report: [Subscription Required For Some Full Text Access] "The Crime Report (TCR) is the nation’s only comprehensive news service covering the diverse challenges and issues of 21st century criminal justice in the U.S. and abroad... [I]t is published daily through the year by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York..."

Brian Williams

Contact:

Langson Library 106
brian.williams@uci.edu

949.824.0473

Subjects:Government, Social Ecology, Social Sciences

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