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Criminology is a multi-disciplinary approach to examining and understanding the complex nature of criminal justice issues. This can include the study into the theory of crime, social foundations of criminal behavior, theories of punishment, and social structural components of the legal and criminal justice systems. It generally incorporates components from sociology, law and psychology.


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1. Crime and Social Control as Fields of Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences - Discusses the importance of qualitative methods for criminological studies.
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2. Park's Criminology Source - Academic opinion, information, and articles about criminology and criminal justice.
3. Crime Library: Predicting the Dangerousness of A Criminal - Analyzing the ways and habits of criminals to see if they will strike again.
4. Crime Mapping - Article about how crime mapping and analysis has been helping to reduce crime. Includes links to related resources.
5. Crime Prevention Analysis Lab (CPAL) - California State University, San Bernardino research center in environmental criminology. Describes methodologies, data analysis and crime mapping projects, research areas, and affiliations; also provides related links and event calendar.
6. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) - A practical resource for security and crime prevention practitioners.
7. Crimetheory.com - An educational resource for the learning, researching, and teaching of theoretical criminology.
8. Criminal Profiling - Research, articles, news and information on profiling, victimology, forensics, and behavioral science.
9. Criminal Profiling - Criminologist Wayne Petherick reveals the origins of criminal profiling and its use in crime solving.
10. Criminal Profiling Research - Features information about scientific research and resources dealing with profiling.
11. Deviance & Criminology - Discusses the sociology of deviance, criminal and non-criminal deviance, and related theories. Includes links to similar content.
12. Environmental Criminology Research - 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.
13. Faust Global Criminology - Personal page of a criminologist. Includes analysis of several issues and links to related websites.
14. International Crime Victims Survey - Standardized surveys regarding household experience with crime, policing, and crime prevention. Methodology and key data is available.
15. Korean Institute of Criminology - 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.
16. Mannhunters Forensic Artists - Providing forensic art services including composite drawing, facial reconstruction, post-mortem illustration and age progression.
17. Matthew G. Yeager, Criminologist - Specializes in alternatives to imprisonment, parole planning, alternative sentencing, Client Specific Planning (CSP), treatment, and community corrections for the prison-bound offender.
18. Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology - 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.
19. United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Center (UNICRI) - 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.

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