CIR is a Chicago-based not-for-profit organization that works towards elimination of poverty through grass-roots research aimed at identifying innovative policy strategies better reflecting low-income persons' needs. CIR's projects all result in new poverty solutions crafted in collaboration with low-income persons, community-based organizations, and governmental agencies.
Center for Research on Women with Disabilities
Research center that focuses on issues related to health, aging, civil rights, abuse, and independent living.
Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children
The purpose of the Centre is to promote the development of community-centred action research on violence against women and children. The Centre facilitates individuals, groups and institutions representing the diversity of the community to pursue research questions and training opportunities related to the understanding and prevention of abuse.
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.
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.
Queen Sofia Center for the Study of Violence
The Queen Sofia Center for the Study of Violence conducts and promotes the scientific research into the underlying factors of violence including its roots, targets and context.