Criminology and criminal justice links
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Main PACS links page | Ancient Law | Criminal Law | Law Enforcement
Forensic Science | Courts | Corrections | International Criminal Justice
Restorative Justice | Victimology | Sex Offenders
Ancient Law
- Code of Ur-Nammu: "The Ur-Nammu law code is the oldest known, written about 300 years before Hammurabi's law code. When first found in 1901, the laws of Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC) were heralded as the earliest known laws. Now older collections are known: They are laws of the town Eshnunna (ca. 1800 BC), the laws of King Lipit-Ishtar of Isin (ca. 1930 BC), and Old Babylonian copies (ca. 1900-1700 BC) of the Ur-Nammu law code , with 26 laws of the 57. This cylinder is the first copy found that originally had the whole text of the code, and it is the world's oldest law code. Further it actually mentions the name of Ur-Nammu for the first time."
- Code of Hammurabi: Written in Akkadian at Babylon around 1790 BC.
- The Ten Commandments: Exodus 20 describes these commands being given to Moses by God. They have much in common with the other ancient law codes available to us.
- Commentary on the Ten Commandments: Offers Christian and Jewish points of view.
Criminal Law
- Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968: All 48 pages of the act which says of itself: "DECLARATIONS AND PURPOSE: Congress finds that the high incidence of crime in the United States threatens the peace, security, and general welfare of the Nation and its citizens. To prevent crime and to insure the greater safety of the people, law' enforcement efforts must be better coordinated, intensified, and made more effective at all levels of government. Congress finds further that crime is essentially a local problem that must be dealt with by State and local governments if it is to be controlled effectively. It is therefore the declared policy of the Congress to assist State and local governments in strengthening and improving law enforcement at every level by national assistance."
- The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996: The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, or AEDPA, made it more difficult for convicted criminals to challenge their convictions.
- Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act of 1998
- Bill of Rights: The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
Law Enforcement
Forensic Science in Criminal Investigation
Courts
The Correctional System
International Criminal Justice
Sex Offenders
Restorative Justice
- A social worker describes the benefits of collaborative family law
- Australian Institute of Criminology, Restorative Justice
- California Community Justice Project is administered by the Judicial Council of California, Administrative Office of the Courts, Center for Families, Children & the Courts and funded by a federal Juvenile Accountability Block Grant (JABG) administered by the California Board of Corrections.
- Center for Restorative Justice & Peacemaking, University of Minnesota (Mark Umbreit).
- Citizens for Community Justice - Bloomington, IL
- Community Services and Victim Assistance, Genesee County, NY (Dennis Wittman)
- Community Restorative Justice Ireland
- Correctional Service Canada Restorative Justice Week site
- European Forum for Victim-Offender Mediation and Restorative Justice
- European Network for Restorative Justice
- Family Group Decisionmaking web site from the American Human Association
- Fraser-Burrard Community Justice Society British Columbia.
- Friends Committee on Restorative Justice
- Insight Prison Project IPP is non-profit community organization working in collaboration with San Quentin State Prison to provide unique rehabilitation programs for self selected and motivated prisoners
- Judicial Council of California "A Summary of the Evaluations of Six California Victim Offender Reconciliation Programs"
- Justice Policy Journal The CJCJ Justice Policy Journal provides an international forum for researchers and policymakers to examine current justice issues and promote innovative policy solutions in a Web-based format that maintains the standards of an academic publication.
- "Juvenile Victim Offender Mediation In Six Oregon Counties" report by Mark S. Umbreit, Ph. D., Robert B. Coates, Ph. D., and Betty Vos, Ph. D.
- Life Trax (Kelly Mitchell, Certified Life Coach): Practicing Restorative Justice principles provides victims and community members an empowering voice to vocalize harm done to them and describe to offenders "what it takes to make things right."
- Mediation and Restorative Justice in Prison Settings - A Hungarian research project (in English)
- Mediation UK
- Mennonite Central Committee Canada restorative justice programs
- National Conference on Restorative Justice
- National Public Radio All Things Considered report on restorative justice in Genesee County New York
- National Network on Preventing Crime in the Black Community A clearinghouse for information exchange, research, study and dialogue
- Peacemaking and Crime page from Prof. John R. Fuller of West Georgia State University.
- Resources for Researchers on the International Victimology Web Site.
- RestorativeJustice.org a Prison Fellowship informational site edited by Dan Van Ness
- Restorative Justice International.org FPU Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies unit devoted to implementation of Restorative Justice principles for reconciliation at the societal level, whether tribe, nation or state.
- Restorative Justice Project VORP Resource and Training Center, Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies (PACS) of Fresno Pacific University.
- Restorative Justice Project.org FPU Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies unit devoted to implementation of restorative justice principles in communities and organizations.
- RealJustice
- Restorative Justice Ministry Network (Florida)
- Restorative Justice Initiatives of Windsor and Essex County (ON, Canada)
- RJ City the Prison Fellowship effort to understand what a city committed to restorative justice would look like.
- The Justice and Reconciliation Project
- "Taking Victims And Their Advocates Seriously: A Listening Project" by Harry Mika, Mary Achilles, Ellen Halbert, Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz and Howard Zehr.
- Turning Point Partners, New Orleans
- United Kingdom Home Office restorative justice Web site
- Victim Offender Mediation Association (VOMA)
- Victim Offender Reconciliation Program (Fresno, CA)
- Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program Information and Resource Center (Marty Price)
- Victorian Association for Restorative Justice (VARJ) Melbourne, Australia.
Victimology
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Main PACS links page | Ancient Law | Criminal Law | Law Enforcement
Forensic Science | Courts | Corrections | International Criminal Justice
Restorative Justice | Victimology | Sex Offenders
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