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• Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall. Links to grafitti all around the world.
  
  
• The Library Law Blog. For helpful information about libraries. Another helpful website, Crime in the Library, appears to have been discontinued.
  
  
• Sherlockian.net. A metasite on stories of Sherlock Homes, A.C. Doyle, Sherlock web sites, books, movies, critique, etc.
  
  
• Quatloos! -- Cyber-Museum of Scams and Frauds...



• Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale. The science of searching for proof of mythical creatures (e.g., the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot).



• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Yes, there are criminal law violations in this area too.
  
  
• Legaldocs. A free site on how to create your own legal documents.
  
  
• Crime data for California schools at the state, county and district levels, from the state Department of Education.
  
  
• For info on California parolees take this link to California Prisoners & Parolees, from CDCR.
  
  
• Crime Index - The Internet Archives, all about serial killers. It is sensationalistic.
  
  
• BUBL WWW Subject Tree - Crime Bulletin Board for Libraries.
  
  
• WCSU List: Sociology Internet Resources
  
  
• Art Crimes
  
  
• Sabrina's body art page. All about tattooing and the like if the site is up.
  
  
• Yahoo's links on body art.
  
  
• A tattoo history source book that includes references.
  
  
• Soviet prison camp tattoos.
  
  
• Child Molester Identification Line.
  
  
• The National Association of Securities Dealers web site contains background information on brokers and ways to submit a complaint about one.
  
  
• Hunger in America 2006. Based on discussions with 52,000 people, here is a portrait of hunger in America. Check out who funded the research!
• QuackWatch: Your Guide to Health Fraud, Quackery, and Intelligent Decisionmaking. An important and practice site about quacks of all stripes.
  
  
• ConsumerLab.com, an independent lab that checks the claims of drug makers, vitamin and supplement makers. The site may help you get a handle on the sinful advertisement of legal drugs today.
  
  
• Meta Search Engine for Searching Multiple Human Rights Sites. It searches any or all of 23 different rights-related sites.
  
  
• Invincible Cities. A photographic look at cities designed with crime prevention in mind, or not.
  
  
• Public Interest Registry. A search engine for books on crime and other topics.
  
• The Mining Co. on crime.
  
• Various public web pages for the Hell's Angels:
  http://www.hellsangelsforever.com, http://www.euronet.nl/users/unitalk/ha/, http://www.bigredmachine.com/, http://www.bigredmachine.com.au/, http://big-red-machine.com/, http://www.hamcsfv.com/html/home.html, http://www.hamcdc.com/, http://www.hells-angels.dk/, http://www.redandwhite-eastcoast.com/, http://www.hells-angels.de/, http://www.algonet.se/~hamchs/, http://www.hellsangelsmcworld.com/.
  
• An Oregon trial judge's views about sentencing.
  
  

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This and That Other useful or notable links, not necessarily so crime-related


• Secrets of the Spies. An interactive CBS documentary. If you've been to the Spy Museum in the D.C. area there won't be any surprises here.



• Airplane safety data are on-line.
  
  
• Independent Media Institute. A self proclaimed independent journalistic institute with various projects, including AlterNet.org, WireTap and the SPIN.
  
  
• California Flood/Emergency Information
  
  
• The California Conservation Digital Atlas. Digital life in California takes a big step forward. Go through the tutorial before trying to enjoy the bounties of this site, which looks at California in a variety of ways.
  
  
• Coffin Nails: The Tobacco Controversy in the 19th Century. The history of cigarette smoking. Lots of pictures and stories about this modern-day health and social problem.
  
  
• The Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons' Complete Home Medical Guide (3rd edition), a consumer and professional searchable reference source. There are 34 chapters on health, from the system itself to treatment and taking medicines. Wow!
  
  
• The Encyclopedia Britannica. The real banana--for free.
  
  
• Find A Grave. A free way to search for the graves of ancestors, relatives or others.
  
  
• Gray's Anatomy.
  
  
• The Internet History Archive. Using the Wayback Machine, you can examine the history of a web site. For example, you could check out federal agencies and how they have changed the content of their web sites to now exclude references to condoms; in their place one might now find an embracement of, say, abstinence.
  Anyway, there are some empty spots in Wayback's history, but it's interesting nonetheless. Through here you also gain access to the noteworthy National Children's Digital Library. and the Million Book Project.
  
  
• For locals, the latest local earthquake information. Nonlocals can find a link to other places of interest.
  
  
• Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research. This center has some serious funding from Federal sources.
• Medical Board of California--to check out your medical doctor's license, complaints, disciplinary actions, etc. or to help you shop for a doctor.
  
  
• The Open Video Project. Type the subject of crime in and you will be able to download various videos open to the public.
  
  
• Oxford Companion to Wine, now in 2nd edition and free, edited by Jancis Robinson, a winner of all the major wine book award in 1994." There are hundreds of new entries and revisions of the earlier collection. Browse alphabetically, for free.
  
  
• The Pantheon. Learn about the Greek world of gods and goddesses.
  
  
• Report on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic - June 1998 and more recent, which includes related information.
  
  
• The UK Mad Cow Disease Report and Inquiry. A UK report on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The Government misled the public about the mad cow disease bigtime. There is ample documentation here.
  
  
• The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. An extremely well done photographic and textual history of the 1906 earthquake and fire. This site requires several visits. There's a 360 degree panoramic view of the city after the quake from the top of the Fairmont; a brief but excellent history of the city and its people; a detailed look at the fire department; and extensive resources available for this period.
  
  
• Typhoid Mary--The Most Dangerous Woman in America, from NOVA. This site is all about the notorious Irish immigrant, Mary Mallon, who came to be known as "Typhoid Mary". The good part about this web site is that it is tuned to public health issues and the societal reaction to Mary Mallon. It includes many of the ingredients for a fresh look at the notion of a "master status" and labelling theory.
  
  
• Vital Records Information, with links to counties in California and the entire US. It's not comprehensive right now but there's a potential. There are also links to genealogical societies.
  
  
• Miscellaneous stuff
  
  
• Administrative Bloat in the California State University system, from the CFA.
  
  
• The American Heritage Book of English Usage, and Webgrammar's Free Tips. These are links that can keep us on our proper-use-of-english toes.
  
  
• A Guide to Lock Picking
  
  
• Aerial Photographs and Atlases from Microsoft's Terraserver, the National Atlas of the United States, and a text version of the National Atlas of the United States. For people interested in aerial photographs, satellite images, or maps. Find what you want, but then you have to payfor it.
  
  
• American Presidential election results, 1789-present, from Encyclopedia Britannica.
  
  
• AncientScripts.com. A student of linguistics has put together this site as an introduction to writing systems. Kids will love the introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs or Cherokee syllabary and who knows what else.
  
  
• Astronomy.com All content is free at the online version of Astronomy magazine. All kinds of information is here--star charts, space news, a beginner's section, feature articles, stuff for parents and teachers, photos, discussion forums, etc.
  
  
• Audio tapes are available by mail through this link. Commercial links are minimized on these pages but this one is unusual in that it provides a much-needed resource for the elderly and disabled (among others), is cheap, and is simply not known about. I do not know the owners or the quality of service. There's a useful search engine, subject index and search engine.
  
  
• Bach Digital. For music lovers. A rich, intelligent site that provides audio clips and images of original scores written by Bach (and others). Prepare to become worldly at this site.
  
  
• Baseball Library. Self-advertised as the greatest collection of baseball history on the web. It is pretty impressive.
  
  
• Bob Corey's Photography. A dozen photographs from The Other California from the late Bob Corey.
  
  
• bugbios--another site for kids, or the kids in us. bugbios contains lots of information about insects from someone who knows kids and entymology. There are about ninety photos of insects and much more about insects.
  
  
• The latest College Rankings from U.S. News and World Report. In Fads and Folibles in Modern Sociology, Sorokin called the obsession with quantitative information "Quantiphrenia"; here's the latest compilation of quantitative rankings of colleges and universities around the country. If you're feeling alone and want to know how your school is ranked relative to others (using who-knows-what arbitrary criteria with vague validity and reliability claims), maybe a look at rankings will help! If you're a student or parent looking for a school, try to find a very recent graduate or two from the school who is with it along with other information. Also, check out your local digital library's admonitions about the problems of interpreting all the numbers.
  
  
• The EndofFree, a web site that documents the end of the web as a medium for the distribution of information freely and for free, or something like that. It includes an archive.
  
  
• Jimmy Carter, the former president and now nobel peace prize winner.
  
  
• California: Vital Statistics Data Tables. California Department of Health Services site with data on births, deaths, marriages, and divorces in the Golden State from 1990 to 1998, for 1994-1998 the tables compare California vital statistics to the nation or by county. There is also a link to a listing of publications of data by the department. Keep it coming, California.
  
  
• The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval. A site set up to permit information retrieval of varied databases. A not-so-user friendly interface but maybe you can make sense of it.
  
  
• Clipart.com. A huge collection of clip art. Some free but most for a fee.
  
  
• The Cool Word of the Day Page. Submit your own!
  
  
• Counting on the Internet. A PEW study on who internet users are, what they look for and whether they find it.
  
  
• Craig's list, frequently updated, which taps into the life of the San Francisco Bay Area. There are leads on housing, jobs, events, people and much more.
  
  
• This is Cybertown, virtually the future.
  
  
• Dr. Seuss Went to War. A collection of Dr. Seuss's cartoons from 1941-1943, including The Lorax (one of my favorites, a once-banned book) and the Grinch!
  
  
• TEDTALKS. This site features the talks of people deemed to have provocative ideas in the area of Technology, Entertainment, and Design, based on their annual Monterey, California conference.
  
  
• E-Conflict World Encyclopedia. An online encyclopedia with maps, weather, geography, and other information for any country. For kids there are audio versions of the national anthems and images of the flags for each country.
  
  
• El Nino--history and current status.
  
  
• Everyrule.com, games and rules for games for kids and adults.
  
  
• Feminist Theory Website
  
  
• Free software of all types for all platforms are available a variety of locations. Some sites, like http://www.shareware.com and ZDNet check for viruses but like Clicked have a smaller number of entries, while Filez and Jumbo have huge collections.
  
  
• Guinness World Records. The real thing online.
  
  
• Internet Scout's Weblog.
  
  
• Jazz Roots: Early Jazz History.
  
  
• Little Explorers Picture Dictionary for kids.
  
  
• Live cams from around the world by Web Voyeur.
  
  
• Macau: A Selection of Cartographic Images. There is a real pirate's map here.
  
  
• Mapquest, which provides driving directions to where you may want to go. Expedia.com is also helpful.
  
  
• National Park Service Data and Information
  
  
• The Megalithic Portal. Megaliths, like Stonehenge, in the world, especially the UK and Ireland.
  
  
• M. L. King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
  
  
• MovieLens. This is a "free personalized movie recommendation service" from the University of Minnesota. Enjoy.
  
   
• Price's List of Lists (lists/ranks of everything conceivable, including crime in cities; maybe they'll rank megalinks of criminology some day!).
  
  
• Prison art for sale.Thanks for the link, Michael V.!
  
  
• The Psychedelic 60's: Literary Tradition and Social Change. An exhibition of the 1960's in all its glory. Actually an annotated bibliography.
  
  
• Recalls.gov. Recalls of a wide range of goods. Sign up for a newsletter that lets you know when they occur.
  
  
• Sigmund Freud Museum. This site has audio, visual, bibliographic and text collections of Freud.
  
  
• Simpson's Contemporary Quotations. Quotations--over 10,000--from interesting people: 1950 to 1988. A supplement or alternative to Barlett's. What a great site!
  
  
• Speechtips.com. Constructive advice on giving a speech for many occasions.
  
  
• The Starbright Foundation - interactive technology and entertainment on the internet for seriously ill children.
  
  
• Take this link if you'd like to see nifty renditions of C. Gable, H. Bogart and M. Monroe.
  
  
• Trail Database, hiking that is. Check it out for yourself to see if it is the "world's largest hiking trail database." Search by topic or country, in Dutch or English.
  
  
• University of California History Digital Archives
  A digital archive of the history of each University of California campus, along with other information.
  
  
• Web Gallery of Art. Over 8,000 European sculptures and paintings from 1150 to 1750.
  
  
• Webopedia. A dictionary of terms related to computers and the internet.
  
  
• Wills of famous people--Elvis, Jackie O., and many others. Have you been forgotten?
  
  
• This Women's Studies site is worth a visit.
  
  
• The Works of Edgar Allen Poe. Almost all the poetry and short stories of Poe. A clean and efficient site. Prepare yourself for the Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, plus a lot of lesser known pieces.
  
  
• The World Population Clock. As of 8.5.07, for example, the number is 6,609,782,378. Let's see, five people are born every second and two people die every second. Hmm, that's a net gain of...
  
  
• Finally, the local weather (i.e., Santa Rosa, California). Most larger neighboring cities are available.
  
  

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Edwin M. Lemert Memorial

• A memorial page for the late Edwin M. Lemert, a Dean of deviance and father of diversion in America. Among other things, John Laub's interview with Ed Lemert is reprinted here with permission. Don't miss the latest authoritative work on Ed's publications co-authored by Ed's nephew Charles and Mike Winters.
  

Related Sites

• Cecil Greek's Criminal Justice Page
  
  
• SOCIOSITE (The Social Science Information System at the University of Amsterdam) "Making sense of the Internet for social scientists." This site is more inclusive than crime. It seems to do a good job of including significant sites and is annotated.
  
  
• Mega-Links in Criminal Justice
  
  
• Administration of Justice Research Guide. A refreshingly brief overview of the field.
  
  
• Institut für Kriminologie der Universität Tübingen. This site is mostly in German but some is in English. You could use Google's translator to make your way through the site. In the next year or so they hope to have a version in English.

 

 

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