Criminal Justice Policy
Drugs
Families Against Mandatory Minimum: A judicial reform group advocating the return of a judge's discretion in sentencing.
Eyewitness Procedures
Gary L. Wells, Ph.D.: Great resource on eyewitness procedures and eyewitness memory issues.
General Criminal Justice Policy
Institute for Intergovernmental Research
Harm Reduction
Information & Statistics
Caseloads of Washington Courts: Use this website to access most-recent-month, year-to-date, and annual statistics for every superior court and most of the district and municipal courts in Washington State. Annual statistics are also available for the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals. Available statistics include: number of filings by type of case, number of proceedings by type of proceeding, number of dispositions by type of disposition, and many more. Five-year historic summaries are also shown, as are workload indicators. There is also a glossary of terms and an index of tables.
Source Book of Criminal Justice Statistics
Juries
Fully Informed Jury Association
Juveniles
Juveniles' Competence to Stand Trial: A Comparison of Adolescents' and Adults' Capacities as Trial Defendants - a report on whether the intellectual and emotional immaturity of juveniles impacted their competence to stand trial. The report found that most youths showed impairment similar to adults who were found incompetent to stand trial, and made choices about plea agreements that were deferential to authority.
Mental Health
Psychiatry & Law Update Website
Racial Profiling
The Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern University is an interdisciplinary academic center, involving the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Department of African American Studies, Department of Sociology & Anthropology and the School of Law, which engages in research and scholarship that examines the influence of race on important questions of social justice.
Sentencing
The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing law and practice, and alternatives to incarceration.
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