Police courts and criminal law
Databases
- Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video (via Alexander Street Press)This database includes hundreds of hours of videos comprising of documentaries and interviews showing personal field experiences and insight into the function and controversies of the justice system.
- NCJRS Abstracts Database (via National Criminal Justice Reference Service)Contains summaries of publications on criminal justice, including US federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.
Key resources
- Crime scene investigation case studies: Step by step from the crime scene to the courtroomThis text covers many aspects of crime scene investigation, taking the reader from the first response on the crime scene to documenting crime scene evidence and preparing evidence for courtroom presentation.
- Forensic evidence management: From the crime scene to the courtroomProvides best practices policies for forensic science entities and their employees to maintain chain of custody and evidence integrity throughout the course of evidence collection, storage, preservation, and processing.
- Forensic evidence in court: Evaluation and scientific opinionProvides a discussion of the principles and practice of evidence interpretation and evaluation by using real cases.
Data, images and maps
- Queensland Police Service maps and statisticsA web portal with links to an online crime map of Queensland from the Queensland Police Records and Information and Management Exchange (QPRIME), the Queensland Police annual statistics review and links to open data of policing records and GPS databases.
- Australian Crime: Facts and Figures (AIC)This annual publication provides a statistical overview of the most recent available national information on crime in Australia, presenting statistics on the numbers and types of recorded crime, their place of occurrence, victim details, responses of criminal justice agencies and government resources to deal with crime and corrections.
- The Prosecution ProjectA database of historical court records from Australian court proceedings created and led by Griffith researchers.
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674 to 1913The Old Bailey Proceedings Online makes available a fully searchable, digitised collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913. It allows access to 197,745 trials, free of charge for non-commercial use.
