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    AGENCIES

    Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
    http://www.atf.gov/
    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a principal law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice dedicated to preventing terrorism, reducing violent crime, and protecting the Nation. The men and women of ATF perform the dual responsibilities of enforcing Federal criminal laws and regulating the firearms and explosives industries. They help investigate and reduce crime involving firearms and explosives, acts of arson, and illegal trafficking of alcohol and tobacco products.

    CIA
    https://www.cia.gov/
    The CIA engages in research, development, and deployment of high-leverage technology for intelligence purposes.
     
    Criminal Intelligence Service of Canada
    http://www.cisc.gc.ca/
    CISC is a strategically-focused organization that facilitates the timely production and exchange of criminal information and intelligence within the Canadian law enforcement community.
     
    DEA
    http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/index.htm
    The mission of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States and bring to the criminal and civil justice system those organizations and principal members involved in the growing, manufacture, or distribution of controlled substances appearing in or destined for illicit traffic in the United States.
     
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    http://www.fbi.gov/
    The very heart of FBI operations lies in its investigations—which serve, as their mission states, "to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats and to enforce the criminal laws of the United States." They currently have jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal law.
     
    Interpol
    http://www.interpol.int/
    INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 186 member countries. Created in 1923, it facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime.

    Mi-5
    http://www.mi5.gov.uk/
    The Security Service, more commonly known as MI5, is the UK's security intelligence agency. They are responsible for protecting the country against covertly organized threats to national security. These include terrorism, espionage and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

    National Security Agency
    http://www.nsa.gov/
    The National Security Agency/Central Security Service is America’s cryptologic organization. It coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. government information systems and produce foreign signals intelligence information.
     
    Royal Canadian Mounted Police
    http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/
     he Royal Canadian Mounted Police is the Canadian national police service and an agency of the Ministry of Public Safety Canada. The RCMP is unique in the world since it is a national, federal, provincial and municipal policing body. They provide a total federal policing service to all Canadians and policing services under contract to the three territories, eight provinces (except Ontario and Quebec), more than 190 municipalities, 184 Aboriginal communities and three international airports.

    Scotland Yard
    http://www.met.police.uk/
    The Metropolitan Police Service, otherwise known as Scotland Yard, is famed around the world and has a unique place in the history of policing. It is by far the largest of the police services that operate in greater London (the others include the City of London Police and the British Transport Police). The Royal Parks Constabulary have now become part of the Metropolitan Police Service. The Metropolitan Police Service employs 31,141 officers, 13,661 police staff, 414 traffic wardens and 2,106 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), and, since the realignment of police boundaries in April 2000, it covers an area of 620 square miles and a population of 7.2 million.

    U.S. Department of Justice
    http://www.usdoj.gov/
    The USDOJ has become the world's largest law office and the central agency for enforcement of federal laws.
     
    U.S. Coast Guard
    http://www.uscg.mil/
    The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is a military branch of the United States involved in maritime law, mariner assistance, and search and rescue. Its stated mission is to protect the public, the environment, and the United States economic and security interests in any maritime region in which those interests may be at risk, including international waters and America's coasts, ports, and inland waterways.

    U.S. Marshals
    http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals/
    The Marshals Service is the nation’s oldest and most versatile federal law enforcement agency. Protection of federal judicial officials, which includes judges, attorneys and jurors, holds a high priority with the Marshals Service. They are also responsible for fugitive investigations (in 2006 , the Marshals Service apprehended more than 36,000 federal fugitives, clearing 39,000 federal felony warrants, more than all other law enforcement agencies combined); government witness security; prisoner transportation and housing; asset forfeiture program (managing and disposing seized and forfeited properties acquired by criminals through illegal activities); and special operations.

    United States Secret Service
    http://www.secretservice.gov/
    The United States Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and more than 150 offices throughout the United States and abroad. The Secret Service was established in 1865, solely to suppress the counterfeiting of U.S. currency. Today, the agency is mandated by Congress to carry out dual missions: protection of national and visiting foreign leaders, and criminal investigations.


    CRIMINAL JUSTICE DATABASES & METASITES

    Crime Lynx
    http://www.crimelynx.com/

    Crime Spider
    http://www.crimespider.com/

    Michigan State University Criminal Justice Resources
    http://staff.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/index.htm

    World Criminal Justice Library Electronic Network
    http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~wcjlen/WCJ/


    CRIMINAL JUSTICE SCHOOLS & DEGREE PROGRAMS

    Criminal Justice Schools
    http://staff.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/acadscho.htm
    A listing from Michigan State University of schools providing degree programs in criminal justice and forensics.

    Online Criminal Justice Schools
    http://www.academicinfo.net/crimjust.html
    In addition to information about online degree programs, there are also links to criminal justice resources (tools, books, databases, etc.).


    CRIMINAL PROFILING

    APA
    http://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug04/criminal.html
    An article from the American Psychological Association

    Crime Library
    http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/profiling/index.html
    An introduction, historical overview, the FBI’s role, investigative psychology, behavioral evidence analysis

    Criminal Profiling
    http://www.criminalprofiling.ch/introduction.html
    An introduction to the subject, with additional articles on profiling types and bibiographies

    Criminal Profiling Made Easy
    http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/12/071112fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
    An interesting article by Malcolm Gladwell at The New Yorker.


    EYEWITNESS EVIDENCE

    Eyewitness Evidence: A Guide for Law Enforcement
    http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/178240.pdf
    A pamphlet from the U.S. Department of Justice


    GENERAL PROCEDURES & INFORMATION

    Categories of Killing
    http://poptop.hypermart.net/homchart.html
    The classifications of death, i.e., what constitutes self-killing, lawful killing, unlawful killing (murder in the first, second, and third degree), and manslaughter

    Commonly Used Police Abbreviations and Police Terminology
    http://www.sentinelstudio.com/blogtopia/2004/11/commonly-used-police-abbreviations-and.html
    From the St. Louis County Police Department

    Police and Law Enforcement Services Policy & Procedure Manuals
    http://www.mrsc.org/subjects/pubsafe/le/le-manual.aspx
    Sample Law Enforcement Manuals


    POLYGRAPHS & LIE DETECTION

    American Polygraph Association
    http://www.polygraph.org/
    Basic information, a glossary, an FAQ, legal issues, instrument manufactuers, etc.

    Detecting Lies
    http://www.blifaloo.com/info/lying-resources.php
    Various links to more information on lying detection, statement analysis, micro  expressions, forensic psychology and related subjects like polygraph testing.

    POLICE PROCEDURES

    American Police Beat
    http://www.apbweb.com/
    This is the web site presence of the print publication American Police Beat, which includes news, products, essays, action shots of actual police, and one of the few sites with links to real-time police scanners you can hear with a Real Audio player.

    Cop Quest
    http://www.copquest.com/
    A web site for police merchandise of all shapes, sizes, and categories

    Cops ‘n’ Writers
    http://www.copsnwriters.com/
    Cops 'n Writers is a consulting service, for writers who wish to incorporate law enforcement elements into their writings, by John Cheek, writer's consultant. Initial consultation is free, with rates for everything from a sentence to an entire manuscript.

    Crime and Clues
    http://www.crimeandclues.com/
    The Art and Science of Criminal Investigation, including articles on crime scene protection, processing, and reconstruction, fingerprint evidence, physical evidence, demonstrative evidence, digital evidence, testimonial evidence, behavioral evidence, death investigation, and more

    Crime Magazine
    http://www.crimemagazine.com/
    Crime Magazine is about true crime: case studies on organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.

    Firearms Tutorial
    http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNINTRO.html
    Information on firearms including terminology, “anatomy,” ballistics, patterns of tissue injury (with graphic photos), crminialistics lab methods, examinations of gunshot residue, and other issues and injuries.

    Home Security Information
    http://www.homesecurityinformation.com/
    This site, linked from a commercial home security company in Calfornia, http://www.homesecurityca.com (with information and resources for that region), includes some articles and tips on how to protect private property from theft and may also be helpful for crime fiction writers in providing details on available security types and methods.

    How Police Dogs Work
    http://people.howstuffworks.com/police-dog.htm
    A site intended for kids, it provides an overview of how police dogs work and assist their human partners.

    How Police Interrogation Works
    http://www.howstuffworks.com/police-interrogation.htm
    From the same site, with information about how police go about questioning suspects.

    Latent Fingerprint Examination
    http://onin.com/fp/
    Lots of information on fingerprints and evidence collection; even has an “Ask the Expert” section

    Lee Lofland
    http://www.leelofland.com/
    Lee Lofland's career in law enforcement spanned nearly two decades. Beginning as a patrol officer, Lee worked his way up to the highly-prized gold shield of detective. Lee solved cases in areas including narcotics, homicide, rape, murder-for-hire, and ritualistic and occult crimes. He worked in a sheriff's office, and a city police department serving as a uniformed officer, as a detective, and as an undercover officer for several jurisdictions. He’s the author of the Writers Digest Books Howdunit series, Police Procedure and Investigation.

    National Police Car Archives
    http://www.policecararchives.org/
    This site’s goals is to present photos of law enforcement vehicles from every single agency in the United States of America. As there are almost 18,000 law enforcement agencies, it’s an ongoing task.

    Officer.com
    http://www.officer.com/
    Created in 1995, officer.com was created to be a comprehensive law enforcement resource site, and quickly became one of the top police sites on the web. It has news, articles, forums, merchandise, free webcasts and podcasts and training and technology videos.

    Online Police Procedures Courses or Tutorials
    http://www.docnmail.com/learnmore/criminal-justice/police-procedures.htm
    Links to free or affordale online police procedural courses or tutorials; the free tutorials include An Explanation of Probable Cause, Stop & Frisk Law, Search & Seizure Guide, and Affidavits and Warrants; courses available for a fee of around $22 include Criminal Laws and Your Legal Rights, Basic Death Investigations, and Criminology Basics.

    Police Body Language and Behavior
    http://thinklikeablackbelt.com/blog/why-you-need-to-learn-street-cop-body-language/
    Insights from a cop on how and why officers act as they do

    Police Driving
    http://www.policedriving.com/
    The mission of this web site is to make police officers and citizens safer through an active driver training program within law enforcement agencies and includes news stories and articles.

    Police Employment
    http://www.policeemployment.com/
    Links to local, state, and federal law enforcement jobs around the U.S.

    Police Magazine
    http://www.policemag.com/
    Includes up-to-date news, articles, a forum, and products

    Police One
    http://www.policeone.com/
    News, columns and various products and merchandise for police officers and agencies

    Police Scanner Codes
    http://www.radiolabs.com/police-codes.html
    Examples of common codes, including the 10/11 codes; note however, that these can vary from one jurisdiction to another and that some jurisdictions have done away with them all together

    Police World
    http://www.policeworld.net/
    Forums frequented by police officers

    Real Police.net
    http://www.realpolice.net/
    Police news, products and resources including firearms, uniforms, and more, actual police videos and stories, links to scanner frequencies, forums (including one on firearms and another on “Ask a Cop”)

    Searching and Seizing Computers in Criminal Investigations
    http://www.justice.gov/criminal/cybercrime/docs/ssmanual2009.pdf
    A PDF publication from the U.S. Department of Justice as a guide for all law enforcement agencies on how to search and seize computers and other electronic evidence during investigations in a legal manner that will stand up in court

    Special Operations
    http://www.specialoperations.com/
    Information on both U.S. and International Special Operations, both military and law enforcement

    Traffic Accident Reconstruction Origin
    http://www.tarorigin.com/
    Although no longer updated, it has lots of archived articles and information on traffic accident reconstruction issues.

    Types of Wiretaps, Bugs and Methods
    http://www.tscm.com/typebug.html
    Almost everything you wanted to know about wiretapping


    PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIME

    Crime Psych Blog
    http://www.crimepsychblog.com/
    The purpose of this blog is to collate news and information of interest in a forensic psychological context. Because the blogger is based in the UK, many of the reports tend to have a UK focus.

    Crime Times
    http://www.crimetimes.org/
    Crime Times is a quarterly publication of The Wacker Foundation concentrating on the links between brain dysfunction and disordered/ criminal/ psychopathic behavior. You can search through their database of articles on related topics.

    Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students
    http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1320
    Hans Gross was an Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate, believed to be the creator of the field of criminalistics. He established the Institute of Criminology in Graz. The release of his 1893 ”Handbook for examining magistrates, police officials, military policemen” has been marked as the birth of the field of criminalistics. This web site, from the Project Gutenberg free e-books, has a downloadable version of the book in English (translated from the original German).

    Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology
    http://psychweb.cisat.jmu.edu/spcp/journal.html
    http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/Teaching%20Corner/Forensic%20PowerPoint%20Slides.htm
    Basic information about police psychology, with lists links to schools with training in police and criminal psychology   Free PDF articles from this, the official journal of the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology.

    PubMed
    http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/
    PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine  that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.


    PRISONS

    Correctional Officers Occupational Outlook Handbook
    http://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/correctional-officers.htm
    A look at correctional officers, who are responsible for overseeing individuals who have been arrested and are awaiting trial or who have been convicted of a crime and sentenced to serve time in a jail, reformatory, or penitentiary.

    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    http://www.bop.gov/
    They have an article on Alcatraz, a list of federal excutions since 1927, statistics about the current U.S. inmate population and types of sentences imposed, and an inmate and facility locator

    JailBase
    http://www.jailbase.com/
    A searchable database that aggregates arrest and booking records that are publicly available in the U.S.

    Michigan State University Corrections Links
    http://staff.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/correct.htm
    Quotes, Web Sites, Links to Articles, Publications, and Reports, with annotated entries

    Mugshots
    http://mugshots.com/
    Current and archived mugshots from people arrested around the U.S.

    Pace Law School Library:  Prisoners’ Rights
    http://www.llrx.com/features/prisonersrights.htm
    Links and a bibliography

    United States Sentencing Commission
    http://www.ussc.gov/
    Includes federal sentencing statistics by state, district, and circuit, reports to Congress and sentencing guidelines

     

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