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MSU Library. Use the on-line resources.
Violence in general is extraordinarily broad. It encompasses domestic (sometimes given the limited tag "family") violence, sexual violence, criminal violence, school violence, metaphoric violence (economic, environmental). Best to search under the specific topic of interest.
Department of Justice web sites. BJS is particularly valuable for current statistical information and for evaluations of current projects (e.g., boot camp).
This debate is dynamic. Web pages appear and vanish. The best I can do is link you to a good search engine. The links below do a google search and a teoma search that is as broad as possible.
"We are a growing body of citizens whose lives have been gravely affected by our government's present drug policy. We are drug war prisoners, their loved ones and others who believe that our present course of war in America has a price that we cannot afford to pay.
"Our goal is to make our voice heard, expose the folly of America's War on Drugs, and demand change. We are encouraged by the scores of Federal Judges, physicians, law enforcement officers, lawyers, mayors, governors, educators and legislators who have become outspoken critics of our country's current policy.
The Prisons foundation An advocacy group to promote education and arts behind bars and to promote alternatives to incarceration.
I don't expect to find much more than locations, populations and names of wardens on Dept. of Corrections web sites. Administering a prison is a full time job and information about internal operations is usually closely held. There are a number of closed prisons, however, that use the web to advertise. Here are some of them.
Documents (partially) US willingness to sacrifice integrity of
the Criminal process for the sake of the purity crusade to rid the
nation of one type of mind altering substances. (Video available from
Hansel or Stead.)
I have always found this site useful for news and information. Recognize it as an advocacy site, however.
Restorative justice is a simple idea. Bring the person harmed and the person doing the harm together with a mediator and work out a mutually agreeable resolution. When social life was largely rural and much simpler and people knew everyone in their community, individuals could better control how their conflicts were resolved. In anonymous societies, such as the United States, many groups, such as social workers, lawyers and sometimes clergy stand eager to resolve (and profit from) the problems of ordinary citizens. Citizens today have difficulty claiming ownership of their own conflicts. Restorative Justice is an effort to allow individuals to retain some influence over the resolution of their own conflicts - ironically, through third party mediation.
Approaches to resorative justice are widely varied. See the Minnesota Department of Corrections pages for one example of the range of programs collected under the RJ rubric.
There are both Criminal and Civil applications of this simple idea.
This material has been moved to here.
The Cornell University legal information center and findlaw each have advantages. Cornell makes it extremely easy to find recent decisions and difficult to download the whole thing. Findlaw makes it easy to downloa and difficult to find cases.
The Library of Congress connects to all government agencies. Thomas has current legislative information. The census bureau is limited to population data.
There are publsihed lists of sociology web sites. Check out yohoo, excite and other search engine sites. Many of what follows are references to government web sites.
" The purpose of the Civil Liberties Monitoring Project is to monitor, document, advocate and educate about civil rights and civil rights abuses by law enforcement and other government agencies. The aim of CLMP, founded by local citizens of Southern Humboldt County, CA, is to encourage public awareness of constitutional rights and encourage involvement of the whole community in preserving and protecting them."
The SPLC is a nonprofit organization that "combats Hate, intolerance and discrimination." Arguably, these severely circumscribing the lives of poor persons and persons of color, depriving these classes of the full rights of citizenship (in all but the necessary legally fictious sense).
Senator Frank Church committee, 94th Congress, 1st Session.
There are numerous sites on COINTELPRO, but the Church Committee report, the unadulterated, black letter, chilling description of patent illegality by the FBI is reprinted here. Otherwise, it is available in libraries. If it is elsewhere on the web, I have not found it. Yet. (This is hardly a scholarly site. But it is fair enough to give the whole report rather than use it selectively to grind particular ideological axes, which in this case need little help.
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