Homicide
Bureau of Justice Statistics Clearinghouse
"BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. "
Free online database of health statistics including national, regional, and county data on abuse, sexual violence, violent youth behavior, murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, homicides and more. Easily generate reports and charts for your next story or lesson plan. This easy-to-use resource has accurate, up-to-date, government approved information.
Crime
Bureau of Justice Statistics Clearinghouse
"BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. "
Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJSRC)
FJSRC provides online access to the BJS Federal Justice Statistics Program database about cases processed in the Federal criminal justice system. Users may interactively query the database and download datasets for more detailed analysis. Data for 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996 are available online.
Committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. They educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally.
International Victimology Website
Resource for all those interested in improving justice for victims of crime and abuse of power. Features two databases (Victimology Research Database - victimology research in progress and Victim Services and Victimization Prevention Database -promising practices); a document and publications hosting page (including the UN Handbook on Justice for Victims and the Guide for Policymakers on the Implementation of the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power); links to other victimology resources on the Internet; and a victimology news page and bulletin board.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)
NACJD offers an interactive data analysis system for selected NACJD studies. The user is able to produce cross-tabulations, descriptive statistics, and frequencies or subset cases into extracts that can be downloaded for further analysis. Several homicide, victimization and corrections studies are available.
National Crime Prevention Council
Working to enable people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence and reducing the opportunities for crime to occur. Website includes information on their multiple prevention programs, local initiatives, training and tools, public service campaigns, community action and more.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Lists Justice Grants from several government agencies, most of which relate to violence and abuse issues.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
Contains summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.
National Organization for Victim Assistance
NOVA’s mission is to promote rights and services for victims of crime and crisis everywhere. They also provide advocacy, direct services, and technical services to clients and professionals.
Genocide
Armenian Research Center, at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, focuses on the experiences of the Armenians, including their genocide.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.
Hate crimes
Bureau of Justice Statistics Clearinghouse
"BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. "
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
"Organizing Asian Communities (also known as Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) was founded by Asian women in 1986 as one of the first organizations in the United States to mobilize Asian communities to counter anti-Asian violence. CAAAV focuses on institutional violence that affects immigrant, poor and working-class communities such as worker exploitation, concentrated urban poverty, police brutality, Immigration Naturalization Service detention and deportation, and criminalization of youth and workers."
HateWatch is a web-based not-for-profit organization that monitors the growing and evolving threat of hate groups on the Internet. HateWatch offers assistance to academicians, activists and victims of hate crimes. They have an email newsletter.
Matthew's Place is a website dedicated to the life of Matthew Shepard, and has been established as a permanent human rights community resource.
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
This organization provides training to activists on issues surrounding the LGBT community and organizes campaigns for the equality of the LGBT community.
National Organization for Victim Assistance
NOVA’s mission is to promote rights and services for victims of crime and crisis everywhere. They also provide advocacy, direct services, and technical services to clients and professionals.
Free online database of health statistics including national, regional, and county data on abuse, sexual violence, violent youth behavior, murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, homicides and more. Easily generate reports and charts for your next story or lesson plan. This easy-to-use resource has accurate, up-to-date, government approved information.
SPLC is a non-profit organization that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation.
Gives an introduction to what hate crimes are, and then discusses what you can do to help stop them.
The Teen Victim Project is a multi-pronged public education campaign to reach teenage victims of crime. This campaign features teen outreach cards and a television public service announcement, as well as a web site especially designed for teen victims of crime.
Fights hate and promotes tolerance. Sections for educators, parents, and kids. Includes information about a tolerance watch, actions you can take to do something about hate, and what you can do to learn more and teach tolerance.
This website provides a place where people of all genders can discuss gender theory, the trans community and its various identities, both as a part of the academic world and day-to-day life. The site includes research resources about violence against transgender people.
Internet/media violence
A new website to give women a voice in the field of information and communication technologies and to help combat cybercrime against women around the world.
HateWatch is a web-based not-for-profit organization that monitors the growing and evolving threat of hate groups on the Internet. HateWatch offers assistance to academicians, activists and victims of hate crimes. They have an email newsletter.
Law enforcement violence/military/war crimes
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
"Organizing Asian Communities (also known as Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) was founded by Asian women in 1986 as one of the first organizations in the United States to mobilize Asian communities to counter anti-Asian violence. CAAAV focuses on institutional violence that affects immigrant, poor and working-class communities such as worker exploitation, concentrated urban poverty, police brutality, Immigration Naturalization Service detention and deportation, and criminalization of youth and workers."
Strives to relieve suffering caused by war, poverty, poverty, and disease by advancing peace and health in neighborhoods and nations around the globe. Information on peace and health programs are posted on this site.
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims promotes the provision of treatment and rehabilitation of torture victims globally and contributes to the prevention of torture. This has been done by focusing on support to the establishment of rehabilitation centres and programmes as well as through documentation, information, and training of health professionals.
Survivors of Torture, International
Website includes information about torture. Organization is also a service provider to survivors of torture and educates the general public and professional communities about torture.
Service Region: San Diego
Contact Info: Executive Director, Kathi Anderson
Clinical Director, David Gangsei Ph.D.
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library online has links to information on international human rights treaties and other instruments, human rights education materials and bibliographies, war crimes tribunals, and other information pertaining to international human rights activities.
Racial/ethnic violence
CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities
"Organizing Asian Communities (also known as Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence) was founded by Asian women in 1986 as one of the first organizations in the United States to mobilize Asian communities to counter anti-Asian violence. CAAAV focuses on institutional violence that affects immigrant, poor and working-class communities such as worker exploitation, concentrated urban poverty, police brutality, Immigration Naturalization Service detention and deportation, and criminalization of youth and workers."
The European Roma Rights Center is an international non-governmental organization which combats human rights abuses against Roma peoples in Europe.
Human Rights: Our Common Aspiration
Oraganization devoted to eliminating all forms of discrimination around the world, forging international solidarity among discriminated minorities and advancing the international regine of human rights.
Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
This site is an extensive resource that is intended to serve as a central resource for those interested in conflict resolution and ethnic conflict. Posted information includes an Information Bank, Training Programs, Bibliography Database and Researcher Database through the Conflict Data Service; issues of Ethnic Conflict Research Digest, a journal of peer reviews; news and events; and publications and papers.
The Washington Kurdish Institute
This site raises public awareness of issues of concern to Kurdish people and promote respect for human rights in communities where Kurds reside.
Systemic/legal violence
National Organization for Women
NOW's webpage posts information on many critical issues including violence against women. The page includes legislative updates, NOW actions, news reports, and information regarding other violence against women issues.
Organization works with governement officials around the world to improve the services people rely on for safety and justice. Website includes links to information on crime and victimization, policing, the judicial process, sentencing and corrections, institutions for youth, planning and demonstrating solutions, advancing research, consulting nationally, working nationally, building nonprofit organizations, publications, and links.
Terrorism
Human Rights Watch has information about their regional offices, campaigns, and research papers on human rights abuses worldwide.
International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
This website offers information about International Terrorism (which includes terrorist organization profiles, a terror attack database, and information on state-sponsored terrorism), the Arab-Israeli Conflict, and Counter-Terrorism. They also offer a database of articles relating to terrorism and a page on weblinks.
Peacemaking
Strives to relieve suffering caused by war, poverty, poverty, and disease by advancing peace and health in neighborhoods and nations around the globe. Information on peace and health programs are posted on this site.
Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking
The Center is committed to the development of community-based restorative responses to crime and violence which strengthen community safety and social harmony.
Committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. They educate, train, build coalitions, and engage in nonviolent and compassionate actions locally, nationally, and globally.
This site contains all you need to know about setting up and managing your own social and environmental campaigns, drawn from the experience of Greenpeace Australia campaigners with contributions from a range of environmental and social change activists.
Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
This site is an extensive resource that is intended to serve as a central resource for those interested in conflict resolution and ethnic conflict. Posted information includes an Information Bank, Training Programs, Bibliography Database and Researcher Database through the Conflict Data Service; issues of Ethnic Conflict Research Digest, a journal of peer reviews; news and events; and publications and papers.
A Jewish voice in the peace community and a peace voice in the Jewish community. JPF is a nondenominational Jewish organization committed to active nonviolence as a means of resolving conflict. This organization also supports the conscientious objection to military service.
The Life & Peace Institute is an international and ecumenical centre for peace research and action. Founded in 1985 by the Swedish Ecumenical Council, LPI aims to further the causes of justice, peace and reconciliation through a combination of research, seminars and publications.
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
Promotes and applies the principles of nonviolence locally, nationally, and globally, to prevent violence and resolve personal and public conflicts through research, education, and programming. The Institute was established to promote and teach the philosophy and practice of nonviolence to help reduce the violence that consumes our hearts, our homes, and our societies.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University
Contains information and links on the work of Dr. King.
Works through national and grassroots citizens' action to promote global nuclear disarmament, cut military spending, and end the international arms trade. Includes sister organizations: Peace Action Education Fund and SPAN (the Student Peace Action Network). Website discusses how you can take action and act locally. Secondary pages include: student networks, peace voter, abolish nukes, human rights and peace economy.
Peace Brigades International (PBI)
Peace Brigades International is an organization that implements nonviolent approaches to peacekeeping and support for basic human rights in countries around the world.
Focuses on global peace and conflict resolution. They have a database of progressive activism sites, tips for online activists, job and volunteer listings, public discussion forums, and a calendar of events.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
An independent organization with extensive resources on arms production, military expenditures, international security, etc. Their site includes a database on Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST).
The International Children’s Peace Prize is an initiative of the KidsRights Foundation with the support of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. Each year The International Children’s Peace Prize is awarded to a child that has devoted a lot of his or her energy to improving the rights of children.
Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research
Organization committed to the pursuit of peace through peaceful means and a complete abolition of war. Website includes information about their research programs, seminars and conferences, publications, annual reports, and institutional grants. Also includes a photo gallery and links/resources.