To assist the community of Penn State faculty and students interested in exploring the field of crime, law and justice, this guide has been developed to help you locate library resources.
Excellent for time series statistics in a wide range of topics. Focus is on the United States and Canada with some international resources.
Online service that enables researchers to build statistical tables and charts from multiple sources in a single interface. Data includes a wide range of social and demographic data both from the US and international sources.
Provides a comprehensive compendium of statistics from over 1,000 sources recording every aspect of the history of the United States. Includes invaluable essays on the history of US agencies collecting numbers.
Provides a comprehensive compendium of statistics from over 1,000 sources recording every aspect of the history of the United States from population to prices; from voting patterns to Vietnam veterans; from energy to education; from abortions to zinc and everything in between. Over 80 scholars have contributed their efforts and expertise to select, assemble, and document the data, to write the introductory essays, and to analyze the material.
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This resource provide access to older polls as well as a few current ones. It has a pretty nifty online analysis tool that will allow you to combine variables.
The Odum Institute maintains one of the oldest archives of polling data in the United States and is the exclusive repository for Louis Harris public opinion data. The Odum Institute Dataverse Network provides access to all of the data collections curated by the Odum Institute and from other scholars. The site allows access to downloadable data and allows researchers to do online analysis as well as sub-setting of large data sets.
Explore FBI (Uniform Crime Reports) and Bureau of Justice Statistics by tables of maps. If you need assistance using this resource reach out to Library Research Data Service.
PolicyMap (www.policymap.com) is an online mapping application created by The Reinvestment Fund and contains over 15,000 indicators related to housing, education, mortgage originations, jobs and more. It’s fast, efficient and captures data in visually powerful ways through custom maps, tables and reports.
Provides statistics (frequencies rates) from questions in public opinion polls from academic, commercial and media survey organizations since 1935. Cross-tabulations possible on some questions results. Also include raws data sets for statistical analysis.
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion back to the 1930s. A comprehensive source for US nationwide public opinion data from academic, commercial, and media survey organizations.
Explore analysis by tables or maps of opinions on crime, media consumption, UCI crime reports. If you need assistance using this resource reach out to Library Research Data Service.
Limited to 3 concurrent users. SimplyAnalytics enables non-technical users to quickly create professional quality thematic maps and reports using extensive demographic data (ie. census, consumer expenditure data) including estimates and projections, business data from D&B and the County Business Patterns Survey (CBP) and marketing data from EASI/MRI and Claritas PRIZM segments. SimplyAnlytics turns complex data into valuable information that is easily accessed through an innovative and user-friendly interface. Data is available at the State, Congressional District, County, City, ZIP Code, Census Tract and Block Group level in addition to custom trade area and can be exported as images, shapefiles or in tabular formats. Authorized PSU users must "Sign in as a guest" if they do not wish to register for a personal account. Personal accounts save your preferences, reports, and maps.
Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. It allows you to easily create visual maps and reports for a variety of variables.
part of a network of similarly situated centers supported by the Justice Research and Statistics Association, a national nonprofit organization of SAC directors and other researchers and practitioners throughout government, academia, and criminal justice organizations.
Statistics for: crime and victims, criminal offenders, law enforcement, prosecution, federal justice system, courts & sentencing, corrections, expenditure & employment, and criminal record systems.
BJS resources and statistics are organized by topics: corrections, courts, crime, federal justice system, forensic science, law enforcement, recidivism and re-entry, tribal crime and justice, victims of crime.
From the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) an international association established in 1963 to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice.
Criminal Justice Data Archives
Note: to use these resources you may need to know how to use statistical analysis software. To get assistance, explore the libraries guide <a href= https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/StatSoftware>Statistical Analysis Software</a>. This guides serves as an introduction to some Statistical Analysis Software. It aims to help patrons familiarize with five of the most popular statistical software.
Data Resource Guides: capital punishment, expenditure & employment for the criminal justice system, National Crime Victimization Survey, National Incident-Based Reporting System, Uniform Crime Reporting Program, and an extensive list of data subjects.
The mission of the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program is to facilitate research on drug addiction and HIV infection by acquiring, enhancing, preserving, and sharing data produced by research grants, particularly those funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a membership-based, non-profit data archive located at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. It serves member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad by providing: Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data, Training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques, Resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies. PSU users get access to ICPSR by creating an individual account using their PSU e-mail ID. This is what identifies them as a PSU affiliate. We do not have IP access. Go to: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/index.jsp - See login at top left. Note: occasionally you will need to login using a computer on campus to validate that you are still a PSU affiliate.
Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.