STUDIES + STATISTICS

Bearing the Burden: How Incarceration Weakens Inner-City Communities is Joan Moore’s study that explores the effects of high rates of incarceration on already fragile inner-city neighborhoods.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics is the United States’ primary source for criminal justice statistics.

Housing First: A Special Report is a yearlong special reporting project by a team of NPR News radio and Web journalists. Through extensive coverage on-air and online, Housing First explores why it’s so difficult for Americans with special needs to find good housing — and how the lack of housing often stymies their efforts to join, and flourish in, the mainstream of society.

Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, John Jay College of Criminal Justice was established to foster greater concern for ethical issues among practitioners and scholars in the criminal justice field. Through its diverse programs it serves both as a national clearinghouse for information and as a stimulus to research and publication.

Life on the Outside is the first major work of journalism on the subject of re-entry: the challenge of leaving prison and re-entering the free world.

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service is one of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world, providing services to an international community of policymakers and professionals.

Human Rights Watch Reports provide information on prison conditions, prison abuses, human rights protections for prisoners, and related issues.

The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis.

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States, which are presented in over 600 tables.

Vera Institute of Justice designs and implements innovative programs that encourage just practices in public services and improve the quality of urban life working in collaboration with government.