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Technology Resources

• Technology Evaluability Resources

• The Best Laid Plans

• The Engineering of Social Control: The Search for the Silver Bullet

• Soft Surveillance: The Growth of Mandatory Volunteerism in Collecting Personal Information

• Office of Justice Programs' Information Technology Initiatives

• National Criminal Justice Associations - This website offers numerous links to technology sites, government sites, and the Department of Justice

• Global Justice Information Sharing Initiatives (GLOBAL)

• Special Technologies for Law Enforcement and Corrections

• Predicting a Criminal's Journey to Crime

• Workshop on Spyware

• Technologies of Crime

• U.S Department of Justice Cybercrime Website

• High Technology Crime Investigation Association

• SEARCH- The National Consortium for Justice Information & Statistics

• National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

• International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists

• Compuforensics

• National Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology Center

• National White-Collar Crime Center

• Cybercrooks get even more crafty and sophisticated (USA TODAY)

• Sex Offender Final Report

• Sex Offender Smart Registry

• Sex Offender Map

• GPS Bulletin

• Palantir Tech Software

• High-Tech Heist

New Technology of Crime

• The New Technology of Crime Law and Social Control (power point presentation)

• Check and Credit Card Fraud

• Clandestine Drug Labs

• Identity Theft

• Misuse and Abuse of 9/11

• Prescription Fraud

• Rave Parties

• Telemarketing Fraud

• Common Fraud Schemes - FBI

• Identity Theft - NCJRS

• Old-fashioned land scams go high-tech USA Today 9/26/06

• Cyberstalking FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

• Cybercrime U.S. Department of Justice Cybercrime website

• High Technology Crime Investigation Association

• SEARCH—The National Consortium for Justice Information & Statistics

• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

• International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists

• Compuforensics

• National Law Enforcement & Corrections Technology Center

• National White-Collar Crime Center

• Internet links for Computer Crime

• Cyber child pornography: A review paper

• "Phishing for Fraud" Florida Consumer E-Newsletter

• CDC Features: "New Technology and Youth Violence

• Man Freed by DNA Test

• After 19 Years, Victim Hopes DNA Will ID Attacker

• Caller-ID Faking

Police Technology

• Crime Mapping and Serial Killing

• Law Enforcement Technology Guide

• International Association of Chiefs of Police Technology Website

• Patrol Car Armor Systems

• Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES)

• NLECTC Video Resource Center

• Officer & Cruiser Technology

• Police One: Outlines & Articles on Technology used by Police

• Automated Information Sharing - NIJ

• Prediction and Control of Organized Crime

• Urban Crime Statistics

• Non-Lethal Weapons - Pepperball Guns

• Project 54 - Cruiser Technology

• Radar Cameras

• Federal Bureau of Investigation Strategic Plan 2004-2009

• Information Technology Initiatives- US Department of Justice

• Non-Lethal Technology

• Taser Video 1: Cleveland Police Taser Training

• Taser Video 2: How Tasers Work

• Taser Video 3: Marine Taser Training

• Taser Video 4: Taser Controversy

• The Death of Victoria Snelgrove

• Community Oriented Policing Services- U.S. Department of Justice

• The Death of Victoria Snelgrove (commission investigating)

• 11 Years of Gunfire in Painstaking Detail

• Newark cops cast expanding eye across the city

• MCCAIN on reducing urban crime

• A $26m try to tame city's crime hot spots - The Boston Globe

• Boston Police Department

• Chicago Big Brother Camera System

• Police Radio Communicators Making The Switch To Plain English

• Detroit Police In-Car Cameras Work Only 17% Of The Time

• Stolen Cars

• Baltimore May Join 30 Cities Using Gunshot Detection Systems

• All Cops Have Body Armor, But When Do They Wear It?

• FBI's Biometric Center

• Automatic License Plate Recognition System

• Gun Shot Location Device

• Police use of force caught on camera

Court Technology

• Examining the Work of State Courts

• problem-solving-justice

• Courtroom 21 Project

• Center for Court Innovation (See this link for specific courts: Community, Drug, DV Mental Health, Community Prosecution, Sex Offense)

• National Center for State Courts (NCSC) - Technology in the Courts

• Jurist Legal Intelligence - Technological Applications in the Courts

• Wired Courts

• Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program

• Preventing Targeted Violence Against Judicial Officials and Courts

• Court Technology: A Status Report

• Preventing Targeted Violence Against Judicial Officials and Courts

• An Informed Response: An overview of the domestic violence court technology application and resource link

• Mother Jones Slammed Inside America's broken and broke prison system

• Domestic Violence Court

• Long Range Plan for Information Technology in t he Federal Judiciary

  NPR "FBI's New Technology Revolutionizes DNA Analysis" Part 1 of 3

  NPR "Voice 'Fingerprint' Change Crime-Solving" Part 2 of 3

  NPR "FBI Unravels the Stories Skulls Tell" Part 3 of 3

• MD Project for Domestic Violence Victims

• Painting the Current Picture:  A National Report Card on Drug Courts and other Problem-Solving Court Programs in the US

• Center for Court Innovation Video

• Laws - Laws.com

• Mental Health Courts:  A Guide to Research-Informed Policy and Practice

• MD Project for Domestic Violence Victims

• Video/Cameras in the Courtroom

Corrections Technology

• Technology in Prison:  Using Technology to Make Prisons and Jails Safer - Philip Bulman

• Improving Correctional Officer Safety: Reducing Inmate Weapons -Paul J. Biermann

• National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) Library

• National Institute of Justice: Corrections Technology - Future Projects & Goals

• National Institute of Justice: Corrections Technology - Publications

• Federal Probation: A Journal of Correctional Philosophy and Practice

• National Institute of Corrections: Technology Year in Review, 2005

• Corrections.com: Sex Offender Information Sharing Systems

• Johns Hopkins University: Applied Physics Laboratory article on the development of safe prison materials

• Office of Law Enforcement Technology Commercialization (OLETC) Mock Riot Homepage

• Mock Prison Riot Training Video

• Tracking Prisoners with Biometrics

• Classification of High-Risk and Special Management Prisoners

• New Location-Based Solution Precisely Monitors Offenders and Generates Revenue

• The Long Arm of the Law

• The Location and Trafficking of Offenders Using GPS Based Systems

• Massachusetts Prisoner Reentry

• J. Robert Lilly: Issues Beyond Empirical EM Reports

• Report on Prisoner Radicalization (Written by Homeland Security Policy Institute)

• Out of the Shadows: Getting ahead of Prisoner Radicalization

• Security Threat Group Information

• Corrections Technology

• Next President Should Focus ONDCP on Proven Antidrug Strategies

• Community Corrections Technology Newsletter

• Using Technology to Make Prisons and Jails Safer

• Duress Systems in Corrections Facilities

• First Sheriff's Office Uses Iris Scanning To Track Criminals

• An Introduction to Portal Contraband Detection Technology

• Mock Prison Riot Video 2008

• Mock Prison Riot Video 2009

• Another Super-Max Prison video

• Sensors, Surveillance, and Biometric Technologies Center of Excellence

• Intelligence Analysis - Extremist Right.pdf

• FBI -- The Case of the Con Turned Con Artist

   

   

Crime Prevention

•  School Safety- U.S. Department of Education

• Accurint

• Voyager Query for Handheld Devices

• Voyager CJIS Network

• AutoTrackXP

• Emergency Management for Schools- U.S. Department of Education

• The National Institute for the Prevention of Workplace Violence

• The School Shooter: A Threat Assessment Perspective

• Applied Risk Management

• Technology in Crime: Tech. in the Service Against Violence

• Technology in the Service Against Violence

• Big Brother Brain Scanner to Detect Pre-Crime

• Mother Jones Article: Pre-Crime

• (ACLU) Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains

• China All seeing eye

• http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2008/05/chinas-all-seeing-eye

• Suicide Stats

• Nat Strat Homeland Security

• Technology and Crime Prevention Lecture

• Amber Alert

• Cyber Security Centre

• COPS Crime Prevention Technology

• Big Brother Brain Scanners

• OJJDP Comprehensive Gang Model Online Overview

• Critic: High-Tech School Security Does Little, Students Feel Less Safe

• FBI Congressional Testimony on the TSC (Terrorist Screening Center)

• INFRAGARD:  A Partnership That Works

• FBI CAUGHT ON CAMERA:  Best Practices for CCTV Systems and Video

• Terrorist Screening Center, FBI Statement
• White House Cybersecurity

  
   

Government Agencies and Departments

• Campbell Collaboration
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• United States Secret Service
  
• Central Intelligence Agency
  
• Drug Enforcement Agency
  
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
  
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
  
• National Institute of Justice
  
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• National Crime Information Center (NCIC)

Websites on Violence

• Free lectures for CJ Professors and Students
• National Consortium on Violence Research
• CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
  
• United States Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center
  
• Southern California Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention
  
• Satanic Ritual Abuse
  
• National Domestic Violence Hotline
  
• National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (FBI)
  
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2004 (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention News at a Glance
• The National Institute for the Prevention of Workplace Violence

Other Resources

• Social Sciences at UMass Lowell
• Gary T. Marx - Home Page
• Guide to Using APA Format
  
• FBI Uniform Crime Reports
  
• Directory of Sex Offender Info. by State
  
• The Library of Congress
  
• UML CJ Program Requirements
• Criminal Justice Links
• National Associations of Probation Executives
• TECHbeat
• Cybrary's Top 100 Criminal Justice Links
• How Safe are Trick-or-Treaters?:  An analysis on Child Sex Crime Rates on Halloween
• DrugPubs - New Research and Dissemination Centers.
• Federal Judiciary Careers: Probation and Pretrial Services