Edens Learning Commons: Criminal Justice: Websites About CJ

Quality Websites

Some credible and helpful websites to search: these can help you find sources and information when you are struggling to find what you need!

American Bar Association
- Check out the Criminal Justice Section!
South Carolina State Bar Association
Department of Homeland Security
South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy
National Criminal Justice Association
Fraternal Order of Police
National Institute of Justice: Crime Solutions

Federal Constitution, Statutes, and Regulations

FDSys (Federal Digital System)
Free online access to the official, authenticated United States Constitution, Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and other government documents.
Regulations.gov
US Government Regulations and comments page. Search for proposed and final rules, comment on proposed rules, and sign up for e-mail alerts and RSS feeds to track pending regulations.
U.S. Code: U.S. House: Office of the Law Revision Counsel
The U.S. House of Representatives publishes the current U.S. Code. This website includes a Popular Name Table and tables to determine code sections by Public Law number. It also allows researchers to retrieve code section by citation or search by keyword.

State Constitutions, Statutes, and Regulations

Cornell's Legal Information Institute
50 states' statutes and constitutions, as well as cases and other legal material in an easily navigable format.
Findlaw
State and federal laws, as well as cases and regulations
South Carolina Legislature
South Carolina Constitution, Code, regulations, and other legal information

Federal Cases

Justia Federal District Court Case Law
Database of U.S. Federal District Court cases by state and by year.
Public Library of Law
Searchable database of cases from the US Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Supreme Court of the United States
Case information, oral argument transcripts and audio, briefs, court opinions (including bound volumes of U.S. Reports), and Supreme Court Rules.

State Cases

Cornell's Legal Information Institute
50 states' statutes and constitutions, as well as cases and other legal material in an easily navigable format.
Google Scholar
Choose "Legal documents" to search case law for individual states or all states. Offers full-text searching of state and federal court opinions. Search U.S. Supreme Court opinions, federal courts by circuit, all federal circuits combined, individual states or state court opinions combined.
South Carolina Judicial Department
Light brown box contains links to searchable opinions from the South Carolina Appeals and Supreme Courts

Google Tips & Tricks

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 bioterrorism OR site:org statistics racial profiling

Some useful Websites:

Source Book of Criminal Justice Statistics

U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

Criminal Justice: Websites About CJ

Quality Websites

Federal Constitution, Statutes, and Regulations

State Constitutions, Statutes, and Regulations

Federal Cases

State Cases

Google Tips & Tricks

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