Agencies that are involved in criminal justice often operate a data or research arm. You can find agencies at the federal and state level, and some regional or city jurisdictions may offer their own portals with more detail available. Here are some examples:

Nonprofit organizations that advocate for or support causes may conduct their own research, or they may provide useful summary statistics from other sources. Research institutions like think tanks may study issues related to criminology or victimization and provide original data or research to the public.

Here are some examples:

Criminology and victimology researchers at universities publish their research in scholarly, peer reviewed journals. This research can be easily found in the library's databases. These researchers may collect their own data in smaller (or big) research projects, or they may use large datasets that are made available by government agencies or in repositories like ICPSR.

Here are some recommended Research Databases to find research studies and articles published in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. More databases can be found on the Research Databases A-Z List.

Other general websites and newspapers or magazines may publish articles which present crime and victim data, or report on the results of research being conducted by other entities, but they rarely are responsible for that research. Hopefully, these sources provide links to the original sources.

Here are a few resources provided by the Michael Schwartz Library to find news articles pertaining to crime:

You can find statistics on Google! You may want to locate statistics on a geographic location, population, social issue, etc. The federal government publishes statistics through various agencies, like the U.S. Census Bureau. State and local governments also publish statistics.

Remember to evaluate the source of the information! You can limit your search to a specific domain, like .gov. Go to the Advanced Search in Google to apply specific limits. Or, add site:.gov to your search terms.

For example:

human trafficking Ohio statistics site:.gov

This will retrieve information only from government websites.

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