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Organizations and Meetings

• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. They now have an official webmaster.
  
  
• American Bar Association Division for Public Education
  
  
• The American Society of Criminology
  
  
• The American Sociological Association
  
  
• The British Society of Criminology. See their conferences and free articles posted at this site.
  
  
• The ASA Sociology of Law Section, which includes links to their informative AMICI Newsletter/publication.
  
  
• The California Sociological Association
  
  
• Canadian Criminal Justice Association
  
  
• The Critical Criminology Section of the American Society of Criminology
  
  
• The Criminal Justice Policy Foundation.
  
  
• Justice Research and Statistics Association. "State analysts turning policy into action."
  
  
• The Justice Studies Association
  
  
• The Law and Society Association
  
  
• The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research lists numerous forthcoming conferences in Europe and elsewhere.
  
  
• For the National Center for Women and Policing or go through the Feminist Majority Foundation
  
  
• The Pacific Sociological Association as well as their newsletters available for free.
  
  
• The Society for Applied Sociology
  
  
• The Western Society of Criminology
  
  
• The International Victimology Institute's INTERVIC
  
  
• An Princeton's updated list of sociology departments, along with numerous other resources. Criminologists are still found in sociology departments, and the majority of criminology courses are still taught by sociologists.
  
  
• Yahoo's listing of criminal justice organizations
  
  
• Academic Institutional Profiles, from the National Science Foundation
  
  
• A list of Academic Professional Organizations at Boulder.

Theory, Method, Teaching, Writing and Research: Sources and Related Help

• Theory and Methods
  
  
  • For data sets on crime and other subjects see the first page of these web links under General Information About Crime.
    
    
  • Free audio and video transcription programs:
    
    • Transana, a program that handles video and audio
      

      CLAN, a language analysis program
      Transcriber, to manually annotate speech patterns on the computer.
      Express Scribe, for basic transcription of audio files.
      

  • Conducting Research Surveys via Email and the Web. A RAND study by Matthias Schonlau, Ronald D. Fricker, Jr., and Marc N. Elliott.
    
    
  • Research Methods Knowledge Base. The brief version of an online applied research methods book by William Trochim at Cornell University.
    
    
  • The The Durkheim Pages. All about a central figure in the development of sociology and the study of religion, suicide, crime and the like, the French sociologist/philosopher Emile Durkheim. This is a very good site. It is intellectually informed. Some of it is full text (in french).
  
  
  • Critical Criminology's page on theoretical issues. There is a lot for criminologists to consider here.
  
  
  • Of Crimes and Punishments, 1764, by Cesare Becarria. The original text (translated).
  
  
  • The Principles of Morals and Legislation, by Jeremy Bentham (1781)
    
  
  
  • The Elements of the Art of Packing, As Applied to Special Juries, Particularly in Cases of Libel Law, Jeremy Bentham (written 1809, published 1821). The treatise on jury system abuses. Juries acquitted the publishers for printing this.
  
  
  • The Mead Project (updated link). The life and works of George Herbert Mead and a whole lot more. A very informed source.
    
    
  • Sarah Zupko's Popcultures.com (its new name) contains many links to theorists and their critics, including Foucault, Habermas, Marx & Engels, Nietzsche, Sartre, E.P. Thompson and others. (Sometimes this server is up and sometimes it is down.)
    
    
  • Try AskPhilosophers for a change.
    
    
  • Action Research International, a new online journal on evaluation/applied methods.
    
    
  • Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Sources. Increasing analysis of media coverage, in the form of "newsmaking criminology" about crime or more typical reasons, almost by necessity takes you to content analysis methods. Their list of qualitative resources also contains conference information.
    
    
  • Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT). Qualitative data analysis tool. Open source. Updated and interesting.
    
    
  • Online QDA, a UK web site for dealing with qualitative data analysis programs.
    
    
  • The Question Bank: Social Surveys Online. A very nicely done web site with complete surveys online conducted in the UK.
    
    
  • Resources for Methods in Evaluation and Social Research and their links to links.
  
  
  • Screensite, a web site that "facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students."
    
    
  • HyperStat Online. An introduction to statistics online book that at least some afraid-of-statistics-of-any-kind students will find user friendly. Check it out.
    
    
  • Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics. A helpful resource for teaching and learning about such things as sampling distributions, confidence intervals, use and interpretation of experiemental designs, actual classical experimental designs related to aggression, and related matters. The generous author has made all the java script that drives the simulations and online programs freely available to educators.
    
    
  • SticiGui. A great resource for java applets and related matters for statistical expressions on the web.
    
    
  • The Knowledge Base: An Online Research Methods Textbook
    
    
  • Ann Arbor's Summer Institute web page, which describes their training program in survey research techniques.
    
    
• Web development information:
  
  
  • Cascading Style Sheets; see also the CSS Zen Garden, which is simply wonderful.
    
    
  • Scout Project. Go to the current issue and look under the topic of "Network Tools." Check out the past issues of this valuable resource.
    
    
  • HTML Goodies, which has a number of useful tutorials.
    
    
  • W3Schools. A resource for internet developers: a dozen tutorials for internet development: html and more complex stuff.
    
    
  • The Yale web guide.
    
    
  • New Media Studies: Web Culture, Design, and Reviews a Go-Go. A place to go for discussion about interesting things that are web-related.
    
    
  • Krazydad's colorpicker. If you ever need some help in finding colors, and how to mix them, this is a special place to go if you like to linger and savor details of such things.
    
    
  • Design-o-rama
    
    
  • Convert tab delimited spreadsheet to xml easily (for Moodle).
  
  
• These days you have to up on everything having to do with blogs. So go to Technorati, blo.gs, blogdex, blogsnow,World as a Blog and related tools.



• CIELO, which stands for the California (State University) Image Exchange Library Online. Free images for CSU employees.
  
  
• Style/citation Manuals:
  
  
  • SSU's are great!
    
    
  • A Legal Citation Guide
    
    
  • The Elements of Style Online. Note that this is the 1st Edition of this widely known book.
    
    
  • A Guide to Writing and Grammar. This site comes with downloadable powerpoint presentations galore.
    
    
• Dictionaries and Other Reference
  
  
  • Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. This site is all about scholarly publishing on the web. Bring yourself up to date on what is possible!
    
    
  • English Scholar.Com: A Compendium of Electronic Resources
  
  
  • Cambridge International Dictionaries Online. Users can search the Dictionary of American English, International Dictionary of English, International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs, and the International Dictionary of Idioms.
    
    
  • OneLook Reverse Dictionary. The dictionary of words or phrases, with many possible uses.
    
    
  • The ICYouSee Guide to the World Wide Web. A reference librarian's self-guided training for the world wide web.
    
    
• Graduate Schools in Criminology/Criminal Justice
  
  Here are schools with Ph.D. degrees in criminal justice. However, do not limit your search to these. Criminologists are also found in sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, geography, and other departments.
  
  • California and Out of State:
    
    • See the American Society of Criminology's listing.
      
      
• A partial list of programs offering joint Ph.D. and J.D.s.:
  
  • Arizona State University, School of Justice Studies
    
  • New York University, Institute for Law and Society
    
  • Northwestern University Law and Social Science Program
    
  • State University of New York at Buffalo, Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
    
  • University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program
    
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Sociology
    
  • The Sociology of Law section of the ASA also has another list of joint Ph.D.-J.D. programs.

    Please let us know if your school is not listed here!!

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