Research Guides: Justice Studies: Websites

Websites

Data Collaborative for Justice
Every community in the nation uses data and research as the basis of a shared vision for how to achieve public safety in a manner that is just, equitable and increases trust and confidence in the criminal justice system.
Gallup
We're a global analytics and advice firm that helps leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems.
General Social Survey (GSS)
For more than four decades, the General Social Survey (GSS) has studied the growing complexity of American society.
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality is committed to providing research, policy analysis, and training on issues of poverty and inequality.
Pew Research Center
Non-partisan Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic studies, media content analysis and other empirical social science research

Annenberg Public Policy Center
APPC’s work has informed the policy debates around campaign finance, children’s television, Internet privacy, tobacco advertising and the tone of discourse in Washington.
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a nonpartisan research and policy institute.
CLASP
CLASP is a national, nonpartisan, anti-poverty nonprofit advancing policy solutions for low-income people.
Colorlines
is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation.
Demos
Demos is a public policy organization working for an America where we all have an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy.
Economic Policy Institute
(EPI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions.
INNOCENCE RESEARCH
Our goal is to establish a venue where researchers, practitioners, policymakers, advocates, and interested members of the public can easily locate resources related to wrongful arrests, convictions, and other miscarriages of justice
Legal Services in New Jersey
Legal Services in New Jersey embraces the vision of full access to essential civil legal aid for all economically disadvantaged people who cannot secure a lawyer on their own
The Marshall Project
The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system.
New Jersey Policy Perspective
Begun n 1997, NJPP provides credible research and analysis on important issues facing New Jersey.
New Jersey Institute of Social Justice
Using a holistic approach to addressing the unique and critical issues facing New Jersey’s urban communities.
Policing Project
The Policing Project at New York University School of Law is a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening policing by bringing the ordinary processes of democratic accountability to bear.
Policy Archive
PolicyArchive is an innovative, new digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research.
Prison Policy Intiative
Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society.
The Sentencing Project
The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocating for alternatives to incarceration
Urban Institute
Our mission: to open minds, shape decisions, and offer solutions through economic and social policy research.
THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONS
The Registry collects, analyzes and disseminates information about all known exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in the United States, from 1989 to the present.

Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Office for Victims of Crime
United States Sentencing Commission
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Uniform Crime Reports
A trove of crime statistics that dates back to 1930, the UCR program currently produces the three publications below based upon data collected from thousands of municipalities around the country:
Crime in the United States
Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
Hate Crime Statistics

Brennan Center for Justice
The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that seeks to improve our systems of democracy and justice.
Brookings Institute
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.
Cato Institute
he Cato Institute is a public policy research organization — a think tank — dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace.
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ)
The Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice (CJCJ) is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization whose mission is to reduce society’s reliance on incarceration as a solution to social problems.
Center for American Progress
The Center for American Progress has an extensive roster of leading policy experts, analysts, and senior fellows
Rand Corporation
The RAND institute provides research in a variety of areas such as arts, civil justice, education, national security, public safety, and other areas.
Pew Research Center
Non-partisan Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic studies, media content analysis and other empirical social science research
Vera institute of Justice
The Vera Institute of Justice combines expertise in research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to help leaders in government and civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety.

Population Studies Centers

The Population Studies Center (PSC) at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn)
The PSC is a self-governing center housed in Penn’s School of Arts and Sciences (SAS).
The Office of Population Research (OPR) at Princeton University,
The Office of Population Research (OPR) at Princeton University, founded in 1936, is one of the nation’s oldest demographic research and training centers.
The Center for Poverty Research (Cal-Davis))
The Center for Poverty Research facilitates research using a diverse set of approaches across academic disciplines to answer critical questions about poverty and its solutions.
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
IRP is a nonpartisan research institution dedicated to producing and disseminating rigorous evidence to inform policies and programs to combat poverty, inequality, and their effects in the United States.