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Crime Theory.Com
http://www.crimetheory.com
An educational resource for the learning and teaching of theoretical criminology.


Crimes of Persuasion: Schemes, Scams, Frauds
http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com
How con artists will steal your savings and inheritance through telemarketing fraud, investment schemes, and consumer scams. Sections on restitution and victim impact.


Dan Quayle Was Right
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/civilization/cc0039.html
An article on the harmful effects of divorce on children that originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly.


Diverting Children from a Life of Crime (RAND Report)
http://rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR699/index.html

Environment and Crime
http://ring.uvic.ca/98oct02/environ.html
An article of the environment and crime.


Environment Design and Crime
http://www.ncjrs.gov/txtfiles/164488.txt
An article on environmental design and crime.


Florida Unified Family Court
http://www.flcourts.org/gen_public/family/familycourts.shtml
Unified Family Court is a fully integrated, comprehensive approach to handling all cases involving children and families, while at the same time resolving family disputes in a fair, timely, efficient, and cost effective manner.


Insanity Defense and Diminished Capacity
http://www.law.cornell.edu/background/insane/INSANE.htm
Background and case law on the insanity defense and diminished capacity. (Cornell Law School)


Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
http://www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/index.html
Their articles are available online.


Justice Policy Institute
http://www.justicepolicy.org/index.php
The mission of the Justice Policy Institute is to promote effective solutions to social problems and to be dedicated to ending society’s reliance on incarceration.


Juvenile Crime
http://www.lao.ca.gov/1995/050195_juv_crime/laokktoc.aspx
This site is specific to the state of California's efforts to identify and deal with juvenile crime.


Juvenile Justice Law Materials
http://fatty.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Juvenile_justice
Cornell University maintains a portion of its site with information related to juvenile justice.


National Council of Juvenile and Family Court
http://www.ncjfcj.org/
Provides help with issues concerning raising children and related problems.


National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/At-Risk/index.html

top100.gif (812 bytes)  National Youth Gang Center (NYGC)
http://www.iir.com/nygc/
Information on youth gangs including statistics and probable solutions.


National Youth Gang Center (NYGC)
http://www.iir.com/nygc/
Information about youth gangs and potentially effective responses to them.


National Youth Gang Center Bibliography
http://www.ncjrs.org/bib98.htm

top100.gif (812 bytes)  Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov
Provides information on grants, news, conferences, and publications.


top100.gif (812 bytes)  Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/PHDCN/

The Impact of Legalized Abortion and Crime
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=174508
Suggests a correlation between falling crime rates and the legalization of abortion. (PDF file)


Youth Crime in Canada: Public Perception vs. Statisitcal Information
http://www.johnhoward.ab.ca/PUB/C16.htm
Study by the John Howard Society of Alberta.


Youth Gang Bibliography and Suggested Readings
http://www.communitypolicing.org/publications/iag/youth%5Fgangs/index.htm

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