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Research Tools

Starting places

National Institute of Justice Publications
The Statistics Homepage (very handy electronic textbook)
Fed Stats Statistical Reference Shelf
MotherJones Interactive Prison Atlas MotherJones.com, July 2001. (Click on a state to see how much its incarceration rate has grown, how its spending on prisons and higher education has changed, what proportion of its prisoners are drug offenders, and the racial disparity between its general and prison populations.)
U.S. Census
Census Gazetteer
Census Bureau American Factfinder
Bureau of Justice Statistics
BJS Data for Analysis page. (see the data online section)
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice
The United States General Accounting Office
Historical United States Census Data Browser 1790-1960
Justice Research and Statistics Association
UK Home Office Research Development Statistics Bureau

State Deparartment of Corrections links

Obscure research tools and links

Other National/Federal Sites

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Speaking engagements:

July 5, 2009: FireDogLake will feature PPI Board member Eric Lotke's novel 2044 on its book salon this Sunday evening. Please join them! In 2044, the problem isn't Big Brother. It's Big Brother, Inc.
July 13, 2009: Executive Director Peter Wagner will be speaking about prison-based gerrymandering at a 2010 Census workshop at the NAACP's 100th annual convention in NYC and on a "Census and Redistricting" panel at the CLE held during the convention.
July 21, 2009: Peter Wagner will be speaking about technical solutions to avoid prison-based gerrymandering on a panel at the National Conference of State Legislature's Legislative Summit in Philadelphia.
August 6, 2009: Peter Wagner will discuss our sentencing enhancement zone reports at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers conference in Boston.

Not near you? Invite Peter to your town.