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American Bar Association Division for Public Education
http://www.abanet.org/publiced/practical/criminal/home.html
The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Division for Public Education Web site provides basic information about criminal law in question-and-answer format. Subjects included discuss: how civil and criminal law differ; what a citation is; what distinguishes a misdemeanor from a felony; and the standard of proof in a criminal case. Information is divided into five sections:

Basics of Criminal Law

The Police and Your Rights

Rules on Search and Seizure

Juvenile Criminal Cases

Victims’ Rights
(Last checked 04/30/07)

AELE Law Library
List of Police and Public Safety Law Materials
http://www.aele.org/mstrlist.html
Annotations, articles, books/ booklets, catalogs, law review articles/ notes, and reports gathered by Americans for Effective Law Enforcment.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Buffalo Criminal Law Center
http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/resource.htm
Sponsors a Web portal of online law resources featuring criminal law information from around the world as well as in the United States. Countries are listed in alphabetical order starting with Argentina, Australia and Austria. Some countries, such as Finland, link to Penal Codes in English and others, such as Italy and Peru, provide the information in the country's primary language. The listings are sparse for some countries, and while the titles of the sites usually say it all annotation would occasionally help. Information from the United States includes Federal Materials such as the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Federal Rules of Evidence. It also includes Congressional materials as well as links to Federal and State Courts. Each state has a link to its criminal procedure codes and enforcement codes. The University of Oklahoma provides the criminal codes of the American Indian Nations. The Buffalo Criminal Law Center also has models of criminal codes and code drafts along with International Criminal Law and Criminology links. Lots of stuff here on one easy-to- nav page. Worth a look.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Constitutional Guide to the Use of Cellmate Informants
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cri19.htm
Article by Kimberly A. Crawford, FBI Academy Legal Instructor, courtesy of 'Lectric Law Library.
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Cornell Criminal Law Overview
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/criminal.html
An overview of criminal law with links to key primary and secondary sources. Courtesy of the Cornell University Legal Information Institute.
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Crime & Consequences
http://www.crimeandconsequences.com/
This blog discusses criminal law topics including: notable federal and state cases, new studies on criminal justice policies, and other news. The editorial viewpoint of this site is “from the perspective of victims of crime and the law-abiding public.” The blog is sponsored by the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Criminal Code and Procedure: State by State
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/state_statutes2.html#criminal_code
Courtesy of the Cornell University Legal Information Institute.
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Criminal History Investigations: The Key To Locking Up The Repeat Offender
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cjs11.htm
Article by Arthur L. Bowker, from FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, October 1995? courtesy of 'Lectric Law Library.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Criminal Justice Blogs
http://www.llrx.com/features/criminaljusticeblogs.htm
A collection of criminal justice blogs of interest to lawyers by Ken Strutin, Published in LIRX on December 17, 2006.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Criminal Law: Legal and Financial Center
http://www.columbia.edu/itc/tc/bolotin/resourcecenter/resources/cl.html
Courtesy of Columbia University.
(Last checked 09/02/05)

Criminal Procedure: An Overview
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/criminal_procedure.html
An overview of criminal procedure law with links to key primary and secondary sources. Courtesy of the Cornell University Legal Information Institute.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Deadly Force: A Question of Necessity
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cjs04.htm
Article by John C. Hall, FBI Academy Legal Instructor, courtesy of 'Lectric Law Library.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Death Penalty
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Death_penalty
Courtesy of the Cornell Law School.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Defining Evil: Depravity Scale for Today's Courts
http://www.depravityscale.org/
Article by Michael Welner appearing first in the Forensic Echo, May 1998.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

FindLaw Criminal Law Topics
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/09criminal/index.html
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Good Faith: Police Reliance on Computerized Info
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cjs09.htm
An article by Gary L. Gerszewski, FBI Academy Legal Instructor courtesy of 'Lectric Law Library.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Handcuffing the Cops: A Thirty-Year Perspective on Miranda's Harmful Effects on Law Enforcement
http://web.archive.org/web/20050630074718/
www.law.utah.edu/faculty/websites/cassellp/STANFIN.html
Article by Paul Cassell and Richard Fowles, University of Utah College of Law, 1998.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

HierosGamos Criminal Law Page
http://www.hg.org/crime.html
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Insanity Defense: A Select Bibliography
http://www.criminology.utoronto.ca/library/insdef.htm
University of Toronto, Centre on Criminology Library. March 10, 2003.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

International Criminal Law: A Selective Resource Guide
http://www.llrx.com/features/int_crim.htm
By Marylin J. Raisch and Gail Partin, LLRX, October 16, 2000.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

International Criminal Law: ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources
http://www.asil.org/resource/crim1.htm
Gail Partin. American Society of International Law.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

International Criminal Law: Research Guide to International Criminal Law on the Internet
http://sun1.spfo.unibo.it/spolfo/CRIMLAW.htm
Maintained by Massimo Magagni for the University of Bologna, Faculty of Political Science. This page covers many links for the International Criminal Court, the Ad Hoc Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and international criminal law in general.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Invoking the Miranda Right to Counsel: The Defendant's Burden
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cri13.htm
An article by Kimberly A. Crawford, FBI Academy legal instructor courtesy of 'Lectric Law Library.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

JURIST Criminal Law Subject Guide
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/sg_crim.htm
Courtesy of Jurist: The Legal Education Network.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Miranda v. Arizona
http://supreme.findlaw.com/documents/miranda.html
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." These words, familiar to nearly all Americans, come from the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Miranda v. Arizona (1966). The Supreme Court is currently revisiting Miranda in Dickerson v. U.S. This article gives a fuller understanding of the issues involved. Dickerson v. U.S. could prove to be a major turning point in the law of criminal procedure. The article includes useful links to relevant cases, code sections, and articles on the efficacy of, and justifications for, the Miranda warning. Source: Findlaw's Constitutional Law Center Focus on the Fifth.
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Prisoner's Rights
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Prisoners%27_rights
Courtesy of the Cornell Law School.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Prisoner's Rights
http://library.law.pace.edu/research/Prisoners-Index.html
Courtesy of the Pace Law School in New York.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Prisoners' Rights : Resources for Legal Research
http://www.library.law.pace.edu/research/prisoners4.html
A compilation by the Pace Law Library.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Reversible Errors, 1995-2000
http://www.federaldefenders.org/revr_errors_2000.pdf
This website offers recent federal circuit cases won by criminal defendants organized into 83 topics from warrantless searches to resentencing. Its goal is to help you quickly find an argument and supporting case law to help your client. It's provided by Alexander Bunin of the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Districts of Northern New York and Vermont.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Searching for Evil:
An Examination of the Nature of Evil and Its Persistence in the American Legal System
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/evil/evilhome.html
Courtesy of Doug Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

State Bar of Michigan
Criminal Law Resources
http://www.michbar.org/generalinfo/libraries/criminallaw.cfm
(Last checked 04/30/07)

Update to International Criminal Law: A Selective Resource Guide
http://www.llrx.com/features/int_crim2.htm
Marylin J. Raisch and Gail Partin. LLRX. October 15, 2001.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

White-Collar Crime
http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/White-collar_crime
Courtesy of the Cornell Law School.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

10 Reasons to Oppose "3 Strikes, You're Out"
http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cri01.htm
An American Civil Liberties Union BRIEFER courtesy of 'Lectric Law Library.
(Last checked 04/30/07)

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