Digital Commons Network:
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Open Access Textbooks:
The Stanford Prison Experiment:
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The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. Open Access Textbooks:
- Criminal Law
- American Government and Politics in the Information Age
- Sources of American Law: An Introduction to Legal Research
- Fundamental Cases in Criminal Justice
- Evidence Processing and Instructional Manual: The Lynn Peavey Company, a crime scene and forensic science supplier located in Lexana, KS, has made available an outstanding manual on basic and advanced crime scene processing
- United States Department of Justice - Forensic Science:The U.S. Department of Justice's Mission Statement is to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law; to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic; to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime; to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior; and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
- Crime Scene Investigator: Provides a wealth of information regarding CSI careers, including training, salaries, job descriptions, and more.
- DNA Profiling
- Digital Forensics
The Stanford Prison Experiment:
- The Stanford Prison Experiment
- An extensive slide show and information about this classic psychology experiment, including parallels with the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
- Video OER repository
- Many videos on Criminal Justice that are freely available.
- TED videos on Criminal Justice.
- Crime 101x; Psychology of Criminal Justice: A series of "crime drama" videos and associated instructional videos that explore a range of psychological applications to the criminal justice process.
- Frontline: Locked up in America- Solitary Nation & Prison State: This is a two film series from Frontline. The first film, Solitary Nation, looks at the growing use of solitary confinement in prisons. The second film, Prison State, explores mass incarceration and some of the results from this practice. The film webpage contains the latest news on these issues and also includes interviews of people of importance in this field.
- Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body: Take a virtual tour of The National Library of Medicine's exhibit on the history of forensic science. Includes cases, photographs, and educational resources.
- The Sentencing Project: The Sentencing Project works for the reform of unfair and ineffective criminal justice policies and promotes alternatives to incarceration. Separate sections are found for: Sentencing Policy, Incarceration, Felony Disenfranchisement, Drug Policy, Women in the Justice System, and Collateral Consequences. Current articles may be found as well as statistics and publications.
- Evidence Technology Magazine:Trade publication focused exclusively on evidence collection, processing, and preservation.
- Forensic Magazine:Forensic Magazine provides professionals working in forensic labs and crime scene investigations, both in the lab and in the field, with forensic-related technologies, products, industry trends and solutions, as well as news and technical information.
- Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine:The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine publishes topical articles on aspects of forensic and legal medicine.
- Forensic Toxicology:The journal Forensic Toxicology provides an international forum for publication of studies on toxic substances, drugs of abuse, doping agents, chemical warfare agents, and their metabolisms and analyses, which are related to laws and ethics. Look for articles marked Open Access.
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