Criminology Social Sciences

Criminology is a multi-disciplinary approach to examining and understanding the complex nature of criminal justice issues. This can include the study into the theory of crime, social foundations of criminal behavior, theories of punishment, and social structural components of the legal and criminal justice systems. It generally incorporates components from sociology, law and psychology.

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• The Redwood Highway - Provides an extensive list of web links dealing with crime, criminology, law and criminal justice.
  
• Crime-pics II - Fully validated questionnaire used for measuring changes in offenders' attitudes to crime and evaluating the effectiveness of rehabilitative interventions, adopted by the prison and probation services in the UK.
  
• Crimetheory.com - An educational resource for the learning, researching, and teaching of theoretical criminology.
  
• Criminal Profiling - The Crime Library provides a number of articles on criminals, analyzing their ways and habits to provide insight into their criminal tendencies.
  
• RKM Files: Philippines' Criminology Portal - Provides a wide selection of information and resource materials for students and professionals through books and downloadable documents, discussion forums and a community forum.
  
• Crime Prevention Analysis Lab (CPAL) - California State University, San Bernardino research center in environmental criminology. Describes methodologies, data analysis and crime mapping projects, research areas, and affiliations; also provides related links and event calendar.
  
• Crime Mapping - Article about how crime mapping and analysis has been helping to reduce crime. Includes links to related resources.
  
• United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Center (UNICRI) - Organization created to advance policy and practice in the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency and adult criminality. Includes a collection of global criminology resources.
  
• Faust Global Criminology - Personal page of a criminologist. Includes analysis of several issues and links to related websites.
  
• Park's Criminology Source - Academic opinion, information, and articles about criminology and criminal justice.
  
• Criminal Profiling Research - Features information about scientific research and resources dealing with profiling.
  
• Virtual Center for Epidemiological Criminology - Combines public health and criminal justice concerns. Issues such as drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking and global warming are examined from a critical scientific viewpoint.
  
• Crime Prevention through Environmental Design - Wikipedia article on this multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior through environmental design, its history, strategies and effectiveness.
  
• Crime and Social Control as Fields of Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences - Discusses the importance of qualitative methods for criminological studies.
  
• Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology - Furthers criminological research within member countries, and advises the Scandinavian governments and the Nordic Council on related issues. Includes information about the council, publications and links.
  
• Criminal Psychology - The Crime Library provides a number of articles about crimes and their perpetrators.
  
• John Walker Crime Trends Analysis - Consultancy service developing criminal justice forecasting and strategic planning models that can improve the focus and efficiency of police, courts, crime prevention and financial regulatory agencies.
  
• Korean Institute of Criminology - Assists in policy formulation by analyzing the current state of crime phenomena, conducts scientific studies, and contributes to public education through publication of the results of research projects.
  
• Deviance & Criminology - Discusses the sociology of deviance, criminal and non-criminal deviance, and related theories. Includes links to similar content.
  
• International Crime Victims Survey - Standardized surveys regarding household experience with crime, policing, and crime prevention. Methodology and key data is available.
  
• Environmental Criminology Research - Focuses on geographic profiling, which uses sophisticated computer software to determine the most likely area of offender residence in cases of serial murder, rape and arson.
  
• Matthew G. Yeager, Criminologist - Specializes in alternatives to imprisonment, parole planning, alternative sentencing, Client Specific Planning (CSP), treatment, and community corrections for the prison-bound offender.
  
  

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