American Statistical Association's
Guide to Abstracts and Bibliographies
       www.la.utexas.edu/research/crime_criminaljustice_research/

Provides information on how to use the many Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) data sets on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Available on this site are abstracts and bibliographies of many studies that used BJS data sets. After linking to "Research Abstracts" go to the dataset at NACJD.

Justice Technology Resource Center
       www.jtrc.search.org/Home.aspx

This database contains information on criminal justice software systems, as well as criminal justice agencies that have practical experience with automated systems. This website is useful because you can conduct customized on-line queries of the database to identify software products and identify criminal justice agencies nationwide that meet your specific criteria.  You can find an agency or submit a survey by subject.

British Crime Survey
       webapp.icpsr.umich.edu/cocoon/NACJD-SERIES/00094.xml

Abstracts and dataset of the British Crime survey available through NACJD. The BCS provides a count of crime that includes incidents not reported to the police or not recorded by them.

Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide 2000 (United States)
       www.atf.treas.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/2000_ref.htm

Global Statistics
       unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/inter-natlinks/sd_natstat.htm

This website provides links to statistical offices of most countries around the world.

Israeli Social Science Data Archive
       isdc.huji.ac.il/

The Social Sciences Data Archive (SSDA) of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Hebrew University, collects, preserves and distributes data of interest to the academic community. The SSDA now houses approximately 1000 datasets including national sample; survey data; local studies; census microdata; as well as government records in selected fields and macroeconomic series. A detailed catalog as well as the macro databanks are available through this web-site.

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
       www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cvict.htm

The United States' primary source of information on criminal victimization. The NCVS provides the largest national forum for victims to describe the impact of crime and characteristics of violent offenders. NCVS survey instruments (in Acrobat format), codebooks, and datasets are available for researchers on this site.

National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS)
       www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm or www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/NIBRS/

A new detailed system for reporting of crime and arrest activities at the incident level through a joint effort among the FBI, SEARCH, and BJS. The FBI website provides links to manuals on data collection guidelines, data submission guidelines, and error messages in pdf format while SEARCH provides general information on NIBRS as well as State profiles.

Quick Reference to Federal Firearms Laws (United States)
       www.atf.treas.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/pdf/quikgid2.pdf

The United Nations Survey on Crime Trends
and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (1995 - 1997)

A collection of data, now in its sixth wave, on the incidence of reported crime and the operations of criminal justice systems globally. The data and questionnaire are available for download in several formats for analysis. The questionnaire is available to download in English, French, Spanish, Arabic and Russian.

The Australian Social Science Data Archive (ASSDA)
       assda.anu.edu.au/

Collection of computer-readable data relating to social, political and economic affairs. Data sets resulting from research by academic, government and private organisations and individuals have been deposited in the Archives for analysis, and further deposits are actively sought.

South African Data Archive
       www.nrf.ac.za/databases/

The South African Data Archive (SADA) is an archive of computerised raw data of large-scale regional, national and international research projects, serving the humanities, social sciences and other related areas. Data deposited with SADA are preserved and disseminated in a machine-readable and user-friendly format for easy use and access by all researchers. Information on how to order datasets is available through this site.