National Criminal Justice Links

Nationwide Criminal Justice Organizations:

• Centurion Ministries - Learn about the secular non-profit organization devoted to the vindication of those who are completely innocent of the crimes for which they have been unjustly convicted and imprisoned for life or death.
• The Innocence Network - Browse the archive of briefs on post-conviction innocence claims endorsed by an international affiliation of organizations providing pro bono legal and investigative services to individuals seeking to prove innocence of crimes for which they have been convicted and working to redress the causes of wrongful convictions. There is a list of member organizations here.
• The Innocence Project - Learn about the national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
• The Justice Project - Explore profiles, reports, and studies detailing the primary causes of wrongful convictions and the reforms needed to prevent them.
• The North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence - Learn about the advocacy efforts of the organization created by the Innocence Projects at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Duke University Law Schools to coordinate the activities of all of the law school-based Innocence Projects in North Carolina.
• Truth in Justice - An educational non-profit organization formed to heighten public awareness of wrongful convictions.
• Witness to Innocence - An anti-death penalty advocacy organization led by exonerated death row prisoners.
• The Innocence Project at The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University

Criminal Justice Clearinghouses and Databases:

• Actual Innocence Awareness Database - Browse the extensive bibliography maintained by the University of Texas, listing a variety of resources which address wrongful convictions and related topics.
• Articles About False Arrests, Convictions and Imprisonments - The New York Times - View consistently updated news related to wrongful convictions, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
• Criminal Justice "Cybrary" - Reference a directory of resources pertaining to a broad range of criminal justice topics.
• Criminal Justice Programming - PBS Frontline - View PBS Frontline's program profiling four compelling cases where DNA evidence has been ignored, discounted, or kept secret.
• Famous Trials - View accounts, maps, photos, transcript excerpts and other materials relating to over 56 famous trials.
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data - Explore research and quantitative data in criminal justice and criminology.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstract Database - View collection of more than 200,000 resources on topics such as criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse.
• Faces of Wrongful Conviction - Learn about victims of wrongful convictions that have been exonerated in California
• Wrongful Conviction Websites - Access a large number of links to national and state innocence project websites

Nationwide Justice System Information and Statistics:

• Federal Constitution, Statutes and Legislative Information - View the Federal Constitution, statutes and codes, as well as bills, hearings, reports and other material from and about the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
• Criminal Justice System Flowchart - Learn about the sequence of events in the criminal justice system.
• Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports - Explore a comprehensive database of statistics relating to crime in the United States.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service - Federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - Access Bureau of Justice statistics from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States.
• United States Bureau of Justice Statistics - Information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.