Cloud Miller

Criminal Justice Instructor

v        How to write a resarch paper (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/contents.html)
This is a good web site to help you write your research paper

v        APA Writing Style Guide '2000 (http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html)
This link provides the student researcher with the appropriate format style for a research paper and footnoting.

v        Law case opinions; states & federal (http://www.findlaw.com)
An excellent resource for researching legal issues, case cites at the state and federal level. This site also has commentary regarding important legal issues and includes statutory codes and rules of the court.

v        MLA Writing Style Guide (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6354/mla.html)
This website provides the student researcher with formatting ideas and proper research paper citations.

v        CJS global reference site (http://criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks/prison.html#prison)
This site has a very comprehensive resume of CJS topics and links Nationally and Internationally.

v        Microsoft Free viewer (http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.htm)
If you do not have the Microsoft office suite on your computer you may download the free reader

v        United States Sentencing Commission (http://www.ussc.gov)
This link provides an opportunity to look at the United States Sentencing Commission's guideline system which mandates certain prison sentences within certain guideline ranges based upon salient factors including the offense category and a defendant's prior criminal history.

v        WEB EXTRAS (http://CJTODAY.COM/CJTODAY/CJTODAY.HTM)
This site provides a resume of criminal justice links and is a META web location.

v        The Justice Information System (http://www.ncjrs.org)
This link provides prisoner data information from the various jurisdictions including local, state, and federal prison counts, definitive percentages regarding women, minorities, juveniles, etc.

v        FBI Uniform Crime reports (http://www.fbi.gov.ucr.htm)
This is a web source for data retrieval of criminal statistics.

v        Bureau of Justice Statistics (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs)
This site provides a review of the documents in order to obtain sources of prisoner data from your state. For example it provides the number and percentage of offenders in jail, number and percentage of women, minorities, etc.

v        Georgia Code (http://www.legis.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/gl_codes_detail.pl?code=1-1-1)
Description of Georgia Statutes

v        Death Penalty Information Center (http://www.essential.org/dpic)
This link provides information regarding the death penalty consequences of criminal conduct and current issues including conviction reversal as a result of DNA testing.

v        Drug Enforcement Agency (http://www.usdoj.gov/dea)
This site provides DEA enforcement information and strategies to combat drug importation and distribution.

v        Law Enforcement, the FBI (http://www.fbi.gov)
This site provides for information with respect to the FBI's goals, policies, and focus as a law enforcement agency. The site includes scenarios with respect to special issues including gang and terrorists activities.

v        Law Enforcement Agencies on the Web (http://talkjustice.com/links.asp?453053927)
This is a mega site of law enforcement agencies both state and federal.

v        National Youth Court Center (http://www.appa-net.org)
This site provides for information on a national level, state by state of the effect and benefits of teen courts.

v        U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (full text 1990 - present) (http://supct.law.cornell.edi/supct)
This link provides Supreme Court opinions past and present with continuous updates.

v        National Center for Victims of Crime (http://www.nvc.org)
This link provides information regarding victims' rights and actual case studies with respect to the impact of victim statements at sentencing and other avenues for redress.

v        Bureau of Justice Statistics (http://www.opj.usdoj.gov/bjs)
This link provides criminal justice data, police, courts, and corrections.

v        Useful Links (http://www.getusavisa.com/Usefullinks.htm)
This link provides legal sights/web locations for United States and state citations as well as general information regarding executive office, legislative office and judicial sites.

v        JUSTICE ADMINISTRATION: TEXTBOOK WEBSITE (http://vig.prenhall.com/catalog/academic/product/0,4096,0130205397,00.html)
This location provides supplemental materials to your textbook.

v        Cornell Law (http://www.law.cornell.edu)
This college university link provides other meta links with numerous private and governmental criminology sites.

v        Criminal Justice Home (http://Wadsworth.com/criminaljustice_d/)
This link provides the student with reference to the textbook summary and various other supporting materials for this course. There is a criminal justice lecture series as well as a CJ news monthly feature which we will be using during the course.

v         Criminology Web Site Annotated (http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep03/fink.shtml)
This site is a mega site maintained by Pepperdine University providing numerous relevant articles and hundreds of governmental and private criminology sites.