| Center for Community Alternatives, Inc. | Information on alternative sanctions and research; consultants |
| American Academy of Pediatrics | Reference resource on childhood health topics,searchable index to abstracts and full text articles |
| Centers for Disease Control, Nat'l Ctr. for Injury Prevention and Control | Information on Traumatic Brain Injury |
| Merck Manual | Information on childhood health and mental health disorders, mental retardation and intellectual disabilities |
| National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | Information on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Mental Retardation and behavioral impairments; access to Journal articles |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service | Access to studies correlating childhood abuse and violent victimization with violent offending |
| DOJ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention | Information on relationship between victimization and offending, drug and alcohol use, and depression |
| Surgeon General | Information on mental disorders in children and adolescents, risk factors, effect of past trauma and childhood sexual abuse, ADHD, treatment strategies |
| Alcohol, Other Drugs, and Health: Current Evidence | Latest clinically relevant research on alcohol, illicit drugs, and health |
| Alcohol Screening.Org | Alcohol abuse self-assessment tool |
| American Academy of Pediatrics | Searchable database for topics such as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders,access to abstracts and some full text articles |
| Center for Substance Abuse Treatment | Substance abuse treatment facility locator |
| Join Together.Org | Alcohol and drug treatment information, treatment medications, treatment vs. incarceration resources |
| National Institute on Drug Abuse | Information and research on drugs of abuse, the science of addiction, research reports, and treatment approaches |
| National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | Information on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome with links |
| Office of National Drug Control Policy | Identifies federal sources of drug data, drug facts, & effective treatment and strategies |
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Srvs. Admin.
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services | Locate alcohol and drug treatment facilities |
| Treatment Advocacy Center | Treatment advocacy with information on consequences of non-treatment on severe psychiatric illness |
| University of Washington School of Medicine | Provides information on treatment of fetal alcohol syndrome and secondary disabilities, alcoholism; links to articles and publications |
Health Square
Health Central Network | Health information website; detailed info on prescription drugs, interactions; diagnosis and treatment of major health conditions |
| MedlinePlus | Search engine for prescription drug information |
| Medscape | Free access to drug reference resource |
Commission on Safety and Abuse in
America's Prisons | Information identifying and connecting problems and abuses inside jails and prisons to health and safety of community; access to Confronting Confinement report to Congress (2006) |
Office of Justice Programs
DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics | DOJ report, Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates (2006), found that 45% of federal prisoners had mental health problem, low percentage had received treatment in the year before arrest, 1 in 4 received treatment since admission, past physical/sexual abuse, substance abuse, and low rates of employment were more prevalent, use of weapon was unrelated to mental health status |
| American Psychological Association | Searchable database for publications, journals, psychology topics, treatment facilities |
American Psychological Association
Local Association Directory | List and links to state and provincial psychological associations |
| Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers | Information on sexual offending, evaluation, treatment strategies for reducing re-offense risk; position papers critical of SORNA guidelines, civil commitment; index of journal articles and research |
| Behave.net | Complete numerical listing and diagnostic criterion of DSM-IV-TR mental health disorders |
The Centers for Disease Control, Nat'l Ctr. for Injury
Prevention and Control | Information on Traumatic Brain Injury |
| Mental Health America | Mental health information categorized by race, gender, disorders and treatment; locate treatment providers, organizations, national resources |
| Merck Manual | Information on mental health disorders and intellectual disabilities |
| National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder | Starting Point for PTSD research |
| National Institute of Mental Health | Information on mental illness and behavioral disorders in children, adolescents, and adults; statistics, research publications, available treatment facilities; link to online medical library |
| National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome | Information on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, related behavioral impairments, and access to journal articles |
Office of Justice Programs
DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics | DOJ report, Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates (2006), found that 45% of federal prisoners had mental health problem, low percentage had received treatment in the year before arrest, 1 in 4 received treatment since admission, past physical/sexual abuse, substance abuse, and low rates of employment were more prevalent, use of weapon was unrelated to mental health status |
Surgeon General
U.S. Public Health Service | Overview of mental illness, anxiety and mood disorders, schizophrenia, depression; assessment, barriers to diagnosis and treatment, risk factors, biological influences, past trauma, types of therapy; identifies racial, cultural, age, and gender disparities in access to services |
| Pendulum.Org | Information and resources on bi-polar disorder, a/k/a manic depression, medications and side effects, treatment, and research studies |
| The Arc | Useful Organization when working with the mentally disabled |
| Treatment Advocacy Center | Briefing papers, legal & medical resources on treatment of mental illness |
| Aetna Intelihealth, Inc. | Free search engine for general health information, diseases and conditions, medical dictionary, & medication information/lookup |
| BBC News | On-line medical library |
The Cancer Web Project
University of Newcastle upon Tyne | On-line medical dictionary |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Searchable index for health topics, diseases, & conditions |
| MediLexicon | Medical abbreviations and medical dictionary, free database for resources on medical, health, and pharmaceutical information |
MedlinePlus
Nat'l Library of Medicine | Database for locating information on health topics, drugs, supplements,directories of hospitals, facilities, and services |
| Medscape | Free access to full text medical journal articles, Emedicine ( general info on medical topics), drug reference resource |
| The Merck Manual | Medical information, diagnosis and therapies for diseases, index of drugs, encyclopedia |
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services | Medical and health information A-Z; links to online health journals and medical sites |
| The Sentencing Project | Searchable database for statistics and information on incarceration rates by race |
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Report to Congress: Cocaine and Federal Sentencing
Policy (May 2007);
Fifteen Years of Guidelines Sentencing (Nov. 2004) | Reports identifying racialdisparity in federal sentencing guidelines' treatment of crack cocaine offenses, the inclusion of non-moving traffic violations in criminal history rules may adversely affect minorities, and Career Offender provision has disproportionate impact on African-Americans |
| Office of Justice Programs | Research showing sex offenders had lower overall re-arrest rate than non-sex offenders and lack of association between recidivism rate and length of imprisonment for sex offenders |
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Recidivism and the First Offender (May 2004);
Measuring Recidivism: The Criminal History
Computation of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines(May 2004) | Studies reflect lack of empirical evidence for Guidelines criminal history rules, its exclusion of factors that predict lower risk of recidivism and likelihood of rehabilitation yet inclusion of factors that overstate risk of recidivism; Recidivism declines: as age and education increases, stable employment and abstinence from drug use in year before offense, for those married or divorced, women and non-violent offenders least likely to recidivate |
National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention | Data on hospital records |
| Vital Check | Birth, Death, MarriageRecords |
| Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers | Information on sexual offending, evaluation, treatment strategies for reducing re-offense risk; position papers critical of SORNA guidelines, civil commitment; index of journal articles and research |
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Dept. Of Justice | Research showing sex offenders had lower overall re-arrest rate than non-sex offenders and lack of association between recidivism rate and length of imprisonment for sex offenders |
Office of Justice Programs
U.S. Dept. Of Justice
Center for Sex Offender Management | Identifies myths and facts about sex offenders/information on effective management of sex offenders |
Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Dept. Of Justice | Data and studies on crime, recidivism, offenders, prosecutions |
| The Urban Institute | Federal data on law enforcement, arrests, prosecutions, crimes, type of sentence, incarceration data on offenders entering and leaving federal prison; special research reports and publications |
| U.S. Sentencing Commission | Federal sentencing data by state, district, and circuit, Annual Reports and Statistical Sourcebooks |
| Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics | Information on crimes, victims, arrests, seizures,courts, prosecution, sentencing, recidivism rates, parole, jails, prisons |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service | Information and studies on violent victimization as risk factor |
| U.S. Public Health Service | Surgeon general report identifying youth violence risk factors |
| The Prevention Institute | Information on risk factors/vulnerability to being affected by, or involved in, violence |
| National Alliance of Sentencing Advocates | Clearinghouse for mitigation and Mitigation Specialists information |
Office of Justice Programs
DOJ Bureau of Justice Statistics | DOJ data and studies on crime, recidivism, offenders, and mental health of prisoners |
| The Sentencing Project | Statistics and information on incarceration rates by race; policy reports, briefing sheets, and educational materials on a wide range of criminal justice issues |
| U.S. Sentencing Commission | Click on Publications tab for access to sentencing data, annual reports, reports to Congress, research reports on topics such as recidivism, substantial assistance, 15-year study on effectiveness of Sentencing Guidelines in meeting statutory goals |