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• California Legislative Analyst's Office Profile of Criminal Justice. This page contains the following: A Profile of State Government Programs and Finances in California for a variety of agencies, including criminal justice. The criminal justice profile includes an Overview, Crime and the Criminal Justice System, Juvenile Populations, Adult Populations and the Judiciary. Extensive statistics and interpretations are provided. A terrific resource!
  
  
• The California State University Data Archive at CSUK-Los Angeles. Available to CSU faculty and students only.
  
  
• California's Office of Criminal Justice Planning (killed by budget cuts!)
  
  
• The Delancy Street Foundation.
  
  
• Domestic Violence Policy Committee Final Report. This Report was prepared by the Domestic Violence Policy Committee, a committee appointed by the Sonoma County Sheriff and the District Attorney in July 1996. The Committee wrote this report on the problem of domestic violence intervention and the criminal justice system. This report makes findings, comments and recommendations in light of public response to the killing of Maria Teresa Macias by her husband. This link takes you to the Table of Contents. (Revised 6/12/97)
  
  
• The Irascible Professor. Biting and provocative commentary from a CSU professor. The Feb. 6, 2003 commentary is "Something's Not Computing Here," with respect to the CSU plan to increase enrollments 5% while cutting the budget 10%.
  
  
• The Klaaskids Foundation for Children, started by Marc Klaas and the Klaas Foundation for Children, includes information on child-related databases; prevention tips; and other matters.


• The Marin County Public Defender's Office.
  
  
• A Profile of Sonoma County Criminal and Civil Justice Agencies, which contains the initial and ongoing results of a survey of justice agencies in Sonoma County first begun during the Spring, 1996 semester by Pat Jackson and a former undergraduate CJA major, Sheryl Braun. This document is frequently accessed. The information will be updated and will hopefully be expanded as local agencies come on-line. This is exploratory research that has been undertaken to see what fruits it might produce locally.
  
  
• Sonoma County Crime, Violence and Abuse. Scroll down to "Crime."
  
  
• A Primer: Three Strikes: The Impact After More Than a Decade is an empirically grounded and reasonable study of California's three strikes law. See a summary and discussion of this report at http://www.sonoma.edu/users/j/jackson/archives/2005_12.html. The law is extremely costly and yet ineffective.
  
  
• "California's New Three-Strikes Law: Benefits, Costs, and Alternatives," a RAND Corporation Research Brief. The source of the complete study is included after the summary. You'll have to pay for the latter. You may wish to check out RAND's holdings while you're there, particularly the recent one on mandatory minimums.
  
  
• The following press release, issued by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists, deals with why you should be concerned about the California prison ban on inmate-media contacts. This situation has actually deterioriated. At present, the press now only has a right to witness executions. Reprinted with permission.
  
  
• The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, located in San Francisco. See their growing list of publications about important public policy topics in California.
  
  
• The National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Along with CJCJ, one of the West Coast's progressive forces for social change.
  
  
• Criminal Justice Statistics Center: crime statistics for Sonoma County or any California county for that matter. From the Office of the Attorney General, Stat.e of California. This site has easy-to-read tables available for downloading on a wide range of topics.
  
  
• Don't miss SuperCell, our Crime Control Superhero!
  
  
• The San Francisco District Attorney's Office, which has dared to defy California's three strikes law.
  
  
• Sonoma County MOVES - Minimizing Occurances of Violence in Everyday Society. The MOVES 1995 Day on Non-Violence Community Forum Conclusions.
  
  
• Mendocino County Local Government Internet Resources
  

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Job/internship listings or leads

• The Sonoma County Human Resources Department has replaced the former Internship Program. Register here to learn of internships and jobs.
  
  
• Where to learn about available jobs, resume writing and interviewing at SSU. There are also many other resources that you can reach here using the Career Center's self-directed career planner.
  
  
• Career services at SSU and beyond:
  
  
  1. Monster College has some jobs and internship listings
  
  
  
  2. Job Ace is another source, but it requires a password obtainable through the SSU Career Services Center.
     
     
• There is JobStar Central for job hunters in Northern California.
  
  
• The Press Democrat, a local paper owned by the New York Times, has listings for jobs in (mostly) Sonoma County. Go to the job hunt link in the Classified section.
  
  
• If you're beginning graduate work perhaps you are eligible to apply for a Presidential Management Fellowship.
  
  
• Graduate programs in crime, criminal justice, forensics--you name it.
  
  
• Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Online
  
  
• Other national job search links and/or resume services include CareerMosaic, CareerPath, and Resume Guide, Monster Board, Headhunt (Legal Job Sites) and Online Career Center, to name a few.
  
  
• Job Choices Online.
  
  
• The latest edition of the Bureau of Labor Statistics biannual Occupational Outlook Handbook, which has employment projections, current salaries, etc. for most occupations or classes of occupations. Students facing graduation report liking this site, but many others doubtlessly will.
  
  
• The Chronicle of Higher Education job bulletin
  
  
• Law School Admission Council Online may be of interest to prelaw students.
  
  

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Forensics links

• The two schools for forensics education short of going into law enforcement itself are 1) (in California) CSU-LA in the criminalistics option (the building in which this program is houses also co-houses the combined LA Police Department and LA Sheriff Department crime labs!) and 2) in New York the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Masters in Forensics. The great thing about these schools is that they provide appropriate and necessary context for forensic work in the field of criminal justice. Narrower programs such as minors in forensic science are of limited use and lack appropriate disciplinary context.
  
  
• Forensic Science Resources from NCJRS
  
  
• Zeno's Forensic Site
  
  
• Forensic Science Society
  
  
• The ALA's Criminal investigation and forensic science: Sources for scholars and aficionados (a bit dated, 2003).


• Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory: Program Annual Report. The state of crime labs is central to the forensics function as it is understood in popular culture. However, some of the best research suggests that the quality of lab work doesn't affect conviction vs. nonconviction decisions but is more important at sentence. See Peterson et al., "The Uses and Effects of Forensic Science in the Adjudication of Felony Cases." Journal of Forensic Sciences 32/6:1730-1753.

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