Law Enforcement

The prevention, investigation, apprehension, and detention of individuals suspected or convicted of offenses against the criminal laws.

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Law & Law Enforcement Blogs

Blogs by, for or about lawyers and law enforcement professionals that cover a variety of topics from criminal investigation to current legal decisions.

Resources in this category:

Alcatraz: The Warden Johnston Years
http://www.alsirat.com/alcatraz.html

Resource on the infamous American prison, Alcatraz. Site hosts a wealth of information including a detailed timeline, searchable database of prisoners, and a collection of maps.

Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

Searchable collection of US Bureau of Justice Statistics publications, dealing with such topics as crime, drugs, violence, law enforcement, firearms, and criminal record systems.

The Crime Library
http://www.crimelibrary.com/

Easy to read, fact-based narratives about well-known crimes and criminals throughout history. Includes crime stories and stories about gangsters, outlaws, gunmen, serial killers, terrorists, spies, and assassins, as well stories of people who were wrongly charged and punished for crimes. Famous police officers are also included, as well as information about psychology, criminal profiling, and forensics. Each story has a bibliography of both print and Web resources related to the crime.

Cyber Tip Line
http://www.cybertipline.com/

Provides a place for people to submit information on online sexual predators to the NAtional Center for Missing and Exploited Children. A reporting mechanism for cases of child sexual exploitation.

Federal Bureau of Investigation
http://www.fbi.gov/

FBI home page. Includes FBI facts and figures, history, crime alerts, crime statistics, reports on major investigations, more.

Handbook of Forensic Services
http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/handbook/intro.htm

"The purpose of the Handbook of Forensic Services is to provide guidance and procedures for safe and efficient methods of collecting and preserving evidence and to describe the forensic examinations performed by the FBI Laboratory." Includes sections on Evidence Submissions, Evidence Examinations, Crime Scene, Safety, more.

Inmate Locator
http://www.bop.gov/inmate_locator/index.jsp

Includes the Bureau of Prisons Inmate Finder (search by identification number or first and last name), information about how to contact institutions about visiting hours, a list of drug abuse treatment programs, and information about education and recreation programs in Federal prisons.

Justice Information Center of the NCJRS
http://www.ncjrs.org

This site is a service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. It has information on corrections, courts, crime prevention, criminal justice statistics, drugs and crime, international justice issues, justice grants, juvenile justice, law enforcement, research and evaluation, and resources for crime victims. The site is searchable, and also links to conferences, related sites, and a catalog of NCJRS publications.

Latent Print Examination
http://onin.com/fp/

Detailed information about fingerprint collection, preservation, and processing, etc., for the layman and the expert.

The Smoking Gun
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/

Contains an archive of scanned government documents and reports on law enforcement. More for entertainment purposes than informational, it still has useful documents, including a collection of original digitized documents from government, law, enforcement and court records.

Uniform Crime Reports
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

"The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. Several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the United States , are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States."

Zeno's Forensic Site
http://forensic.to/forensic.html

Well-organized list of links to anything and everything concerning Forensics, from firearms to entomology, audio and anthropology, journals, education, mailing lists, etc.