Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Criminology
See also: This category in other languages: - Article about how crime mapping and analysis has been helping to reduce crime. Includes links to related resources. - Wikipedia article on this multi-disciplinary approach to deterring criminal behavior through environmental design, its history, strategies and effectiveness. - Discusses the importance of qualitative methods for criminological studies. - Fully validated questionnaire used for measuring changes in offenders' attitudes to crime and evaluating the effectiveness of rehabilitative interventions, adopted by the prison and probation services in the UK. - Research, articles, news and information on profiling, victimology, forensics, and behavioral science. - The Crime Library provides a number of articles on criminals, analyzing their ways and habits to provide insight into their criminal tendencies. - The Crime Library provides a number of articles about crimes and their perpetrators. - Focuses on geographic profiling, which uses sophisticated computer software to determine the most likely area of offender residence in cases of serial murder, rape and arson. - Standardized surveys regarding household experience with crime, policing, and crime prevention. Methodology and key data is available. - Consultancy service developing criminal justice forecasting and strategic planning models that can improve the focus and efficiency of police, courts, crime prevention and financial regulatory agencies. - Assists in policy formulation by analyzing the current state of crime phenomena, conducts scientific studies, and contributes to public education through publication of the results of research projects. - Furthers criminological research within member countries, and advises the Scandinavian governments and the Nordic Council on related issues. Includes information about the council, publications and links. - Provides an extensive list of web links dealing with crime, criminology, law and criminal justice. - Organization created to advance policy and practice in the prevention and control of juvenile delinquency and adult criminality. Includes a collection of global criminology resources. - Combines public health and criminal justice concerns. Issues such as drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking and global warming are examined from a critical scientific viewpoint.
