Useful Links
NOTE: The BSC are not responsible for the content or reliability of websites to which we link, nor should a link be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of linked pages.
Links are grouped as follows:
UK Government Departments and Criminal Justice Agencies
UK Criminal Justice Related Organisations
Some European links
Policing/Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Ethics
Journals
Funding Bodies
Statistics
University Centres (with extensive links to other resources)
Some North American sites (many with extensive links to other resources)
Some Australian sites (many with extensive links to other resources)
International Organizations
UK Government Departments and Criminal Justice Agencies
- Commission for Racial Equality (now superseded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission)
- Crown Prosecution Service
- Equality and Human Rights Commission
- Department of Constitutional Affairs (now defunct)
- Forensic Science Service (now defunct)
- HM Inspectorate of Constabulary
- HM Inspectorate of Prisons
- HM Prison Service
- Home Office
- National Crime Agency
- National Criminal Intelligence Service (now defunct and part of the National Crime Agency)
- National Probation Service
- Scottish Prison Service
- UK Police Service
- Youth Justice Board for England and Wales
UK Criminal Justice Related Organisations
- Drugscope (closed 31 March 2015)
- Focus Prisoner Education
- The Howard League for Penal Reform
- The Law Society
- The Magistrates Association
- NACRO
- Prison Reform Trust
- Rehab Recovery
- Restorative Justice Council
- Crimlinks
- Crime Talk
Some European links
- The Court of Justice
- European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI)
- European Union Home Page (EUROPA)
- European Forum for Restorative Justice
- International Victimology Website (INTERVICT)
- European Criminology Oral History Project
- European Society of Criminology
Policing/Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Ethics
- Council of Europe – National Codes of Police Ethics
- EthicsinPolicing
- Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics – John Jay College
- International Association of Chiefs of Police – Ethics Toolkit
Journals
- British Journal of Community Justice
- British Journal of Criminology
- Contemporary Justice Review
- Criminal Justice Ethics
- Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
- Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention
- Policing and Society
- Police Practice and Research
- Psychology Crime and Law
- The Justice Professional
- Web Journal of Current Legal Issues
Funding Bodies
Statistics
University Centres (with extensive links to other resources)
- The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research
- Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge
- Centre for Crime & Justice Studies
- Sheffield Hallam University: The Community Justice Portal
- University of Leeds: Centre for Criminal Justice Studies
Some North American sites (many with extensive links to other resources)
- Academy Of Criminal Justice Sciences
- American Society of Criminology – Video Archive
- Centre for the Study and Prevention of Violence Databases
- The American Society of Criminology
- Midwestern Criminal Justice Association
- Western Society of Criminology
- Corrections Connection
- Talk Justice
- US Bureau of Justice Statistics Data to Download
- US Central Intelligence Agency
- US Customs and Border Protection
- US Department of Justice
- US Bureau Of Justice Statistics: International Justice Statistics
- Justice Research and Statistics Association
- FIPS – Fingerprints Identification
- US National Institute of Justice
Some Australian sites (many with extensive links to other resources)
- Australian Institute of Criminology
- Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia
- Department of Justice Government of Western Australia
- The Australian Research Council (ARC)
International Organizations
If you have a favourite site which you think we may want to include in this list, please email your suggestion to us.