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Overviews

Crime Control: The Federal Response
Congressional Research Service, Updated March 5, 2003.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/society/crime/crimegun1.pdf

Criminal Justice in the United States
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs. Electronic Journal, July 2001.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0701/ijde/ijde0701.htm

Law Enforcement in a Free Society
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, Issues of Democracy, Volume 2, Number 4, November 1997.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/1197/ijde/ijde1197.htm

Capital Punishment

The Evolution of the Death Penalty in the United States
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, August 2002.
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/rights/hrpage/evolution.htm

Capital Punishment: An Overview of Federal Death Penalty Statutes
Congressional Research Service, Updated July 23, 2002. This report lists the current federal capital offenses and summarizes the procedures for federal civilian death penalty cases.
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/rights/hrpage/rl30962.pdf

Drug Control

Drug Control: International Policy and Approaches
Congressional Research Service, Updated March 6, 2003.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/society/crime/crimegun2.pdf

Pulse Check: Trends in Drug Abuse
Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Control Policy, January 2004. Provides an overview of the drug situation in 25 cities in the U.S.
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/drugfact/pulsechk/january04/index.html

Stopping Use Before It Starts: Education and Community Action
Executive Office of the President, Office of National Drug Policy Control.
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/policy/ndcs04/stopping_use.pdf

War On Drugs: Legislation in the 108th Congress and Related Developments
Congressional Research Service, Updated March 13, 2003.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/society/crime/crimegun6.pdf

Gun Control

Gun Control Legislation in the 108th Congress
Congressional Research Service, Updated January 27, 2003.
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/society/crime/crimegun3.pdf

Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide 2000
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Department of Justice. This publication provides information on all of the federal laws and regulations governing the manufacture, importation and distribution of firearms.
http://www.atf.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/2000_ref.pdf

Strategic Approaches to Reducing Firearms Violence: Final Report on the Indianapolis Violence Reduction Partnership
U.S. Department of Justice, January, 2004.
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/grants/203976.pdf

Statistics

Crime in the United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2003. A compilation of volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies. This report also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data.
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 2002
U.S. Department of Justice (provided through State University of New York at Albany), 2002. Compiled from more than 100 sources, the Sourcebook is presented in six sections (system characteristics, public opinion, offenses known, arrests, judicial processing, and corrections), containing almost 700 tables.
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/

Weapon Use and Violent Crime, 1993-2001
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, September 2003. Discusses the nature and prevalence of violent crime by armed offenders, and the consequences to the victims, age 12 or older, from 1993 through 2001.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/wuvc01.htm

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