Disaster and Emergency Management

Oftentimes, it can be difficult to know if a website is credible or not. However, as a general rule, you should consult only nationally or internationally recognized websites associated with the criminal justice or legal profession.  

Such websites include:

• CDC: Crisis and Emergency Risk communication
• CDC: Emergency Preparedness and Response
• Code of Federal Regulations
• Congressional Research Service Reports
• Department of Homeland Security: Disaster Response
• Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Government Accountability Office
• International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM)
• Library of Congress
• National Emergency Management Association (NEMA)
• National Hazards Center
• South Carolina Emergency Management Division

Unless OK-ed by your instructor, try to avoid:

• Blogs
• Websites that have no professional affiliation
• Commercial websites whose primary purpose is to sell products

STATISTICS

Looking for credible statistics? Try this:

Go to Google and type in the following:

        site:gov statistics ___________          OR          site:org statistics ___________

where the ______ is whatever topic you need statistics on.

The    site:org   and   site:gov   tells Google to only give you results back from .org or .gov websites, which are oftentimes more relevant and credible than your average .com website. 

Ex.       site:gov statistics first responders        OR        site:org statistics hazard mitigation

Other possible topics might include:

• Crisis communication
• Crisis management
• Disaster management
• Disaster preparedness
• Disaster recovery
• Disaster response
• Emergency management
• Emergency response
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• First responders
• Hazard mitigation
• Homeland security
• Incident management
• Natural disaster
• Resilience
• Risk assessment