Library
Web Reference Sites
Law and Crime
ABA
LawInfo.org: Site by the American Bar Association
offering information on legal topics that affect your
daily life, from ‘Family’ to ‘Your Job’ to ‘Buying and Selling’ to ‘Finding a Lawyer.’
Court Rules, Forms, and Dockets: This site includes links to over 700 sources
for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to find
the resource you need, or search by keyword.
Driving Laws and Regulations: This site offers many fact sheets from the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Highway Loss Data Institute, including:
Current Speed Limit Laws by State; Child Restraint Laws by State; Children Not
Covered by Safety Belt or Child Restraint Laws; Safety Belt Use Laws by State;
Automated Enforcement; Laws by State; and State Court Decisions on the Constitutionality
of Sobriety Checkpoints.
Everybody’s
Legal Glossary
Family Law in the 50 States: Site provides quick view of various aspects
of family law for the fifty states in the areas of alimony/spousal support factors,
custody criteria, child support guidelines, grounds for divorce and residency
requirements, property division, and third-party visitation.
FindLaw’s Constitutional Center: Designed with students and the general
public in mind, the FindLaw Constitutional Law Center features an easy-to-read
guide that leads visitors through historical documents, biographies, and Supreme
Court decisions.
Guide to Law Online: Site provides an annotated hypertext guide to sources of information worldwide
on government and law available online without charge. It includes links
only to the most useful and reliable sites for legal information available
for each of the world's nations.
Law Library of Congress: Provides legal links to all the States and Territories of the United States,
including links to general resources such as State Libraries and State
Web sites.
TheLaw.com: This site contains hundreds
of legal articles, forms, and resources.
LawInfo Legal Resource Center: Free legal forms and more.
Lawyers.com: Online version of the
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, this site features a directory of lawyers
nationwide.
‘Lectric Law Library
Legal Engine.com: Federal,
state, international law; legal dictionaries; court cases; and much, much
more.
Legal Forms: At this site, visitors can access over 8,000 forms from United
States federal and state courts for free from one easy-to-use location. The
federal forms collection contains court forms for federal appellate, district
and bankruptcy courts and the state forms collection contains court forms on
topics ranging from adoption to divorce to civil harassment. All the forms
are available in PDF format and are searchable by title or form number. FindLaw
continually updates the site by adding new and revised forms.
Merriam-Webster’s
Legal Dictionary
Nolo Self-Help Law: Site provides
easy-to-understand and balanced legal information to consumers and small
businesses, and helps you find answers to your legal questions.
Selected Historic Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court
Sexual Harassment Resources
Supreme Court Collection: Decisions from 1990 to the present from the Legal Information Institute
U.S.Law.com: Free legal information.
ABA Juvenile Justice
Center: This site by the American Bar Association provides
information and advocacy, including many links to other sites concerning
juvenile criminal matters.
APBnews.com: Current crime news.
Bureau of Justice Crime Statistics
Criminology Glossary
Cybercrime: A clearinghouse of cybercrime information and resources. There
are legal and policy issues, the federal code as it relates to this subject,
telephone numbers to report the different types of computer crimes, a section
for kids, and more.
Federal Bureau of Prisons Quick
Facts
FindLaw: Find cases, federal and
state legal information, and much, much more.
Florida Sexual Predator Database
Handbook of Forensic Sciences: Provides guidance and procedures for safe
and efficient methods of collecting and preserving evidence and to describe the
forensic examinations performed by the FBI Laboratory.
Hate Crime Statistics
History of the FBI: This site by the FBI provides the history of the Bureau
as documented by the agency itself.
Homicide Trends
in the United States: This site contains a series of charts that describe
homicide patterns and trends in the United States since 1976.
Impaired Driving Statistics: From MADD, this site also includes statistics
regarding seat belts, crash costs, fatalities, and more.
Uniform Crime Reports: Crime statistics from the FBI.
Uniform Crime Reports: County level data.
