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Government Agencies and Departments

• 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
  

Websites on Violence

• Child Pornography: Patterns From NIBRS
• 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
• 2004 FBI Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) homicide data
• Myths and Facts About Sex Offenders
• Doubts Rise as States Hold Sex Offenders After Prison, New York Times, 3/4/07
• A Record of Failure at Center for Sex Offenders, New York Times, 3/5/07
• For Sex Offenders, a Dispute Over Therapy's Benefits, New York Times, 3/6/07
• Treatment of Sex Offenders
• NPR "Inside the Mind of BTK"
• CDC Features: "New Technology and Youth Violence
• Tossed Salad Man
• (ACLU) Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains
• Blocking the Transmission of Violence (Is Urban Violence a Virus?)
• FBI Releases 2009 Bank Crime Statistics
• The Crime Report:  Violence Links

• Offender Reentry:  A Police Perspective Video

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Other Resources

• Guide to Using APA Format
  
• FBI Uniform Crime Reports
  
• Directory of Sex Offender Info. by State
  
• The Library of Congress
  
• UML CJ Program Requirements
  

Other Researchers' Websites

• Cecil Greek's Web Page
• Todd Clear's Website
• Joan Petersilia's Website
• Rob Sampson's Website

Global Violence Patterns

• Crime and Society: Comparative Criminology tour of the world

Drugs and Violence

• Web of Addiction: Fact Sheets
• NIDA Drugs of Abuse and Related Topics

Cults and Violence

• Cult Controversy: Spiritual Quest or Mind Control?
• Project Megiddo-FBI Cult Test Summary
• The Lethal Triad: Understanding the Nature of Isolated Extremist Groups
• Interacting with "Cults", A Policing Model
• News Week: Trouble in the Hills (Texas Religious Sect)

School Violence

• Critic: High-Tech School Security Does Little, Students Feel Less Safe
• Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence
• Secret Service, U.S. Dept. of Education and FBI "Study Released on Campus Attacks"
• "Study Released on Campus Attacks" PDF