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- Jock Young's 'Criminological World' site. Check out (and download) a whole host of Jock's writings spanning over thirty years of criminological research. A veritable treasure trove of critical and cultural criminology including 'Social Exclusion', 'Drugs: Absolutism, Relativism and Realism', 'Constructing the Paradigm of Violence', 'Thinking Seriously About Crime: Some Models of Criminology', 'Policing Ethnic Minorities and Self-Report Studies'.
- StopViolence.Com and Paul's Justice Page Maintained by Professor Paul Leighton, these two sites offer a variety of resources, essays, images, and links relating to contemporary crime and crime control issues.
- Art Crimes An extensive, updated archive of hip hop graffiti images, this site also includes a variety of resources and links regarding hip hop graffiti.
- CultureX Maintained by Professor Stephanie Kane, this site offers a guide to issues in culture, law, and crime. www.crimetheory.com ‘An educational resource for the learning, researching and teaching of theoretical criminology’ maintained by Bruce Hoffman, Department of Sociology, Ohio University
- Convict Criminology Link to Stephen Richards and Jeff Ross's Convict Criminology site. Convict criminology is a relatively new and controversial perspective in the field of corrections and the academic field of criminology.
- Amnesty International Find out more about the campaign for international human rights legislation and human rights abuses
- Corporate Watch. A campaigning site, bringing together the work of activists and researchers seeking both to expose illegal and unethical corporate activity and to explore business-government relations in general. www.corporatepredators.org Here you will find the US-based 'Focus on the Corporation', a weekly column on illegal and unethical corporate activity.
- The home page for the Sage journal Crime, Media, Culture edited by Jeff Ferrell, Yvonne Jewkes and Chris Greer.
- Critical Criminology This is the web site for the American Society of Criminology Division on Critical Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Section on Critical Criminology. The site provides information about critical scholarship related to crime and justice.
- The Journal of Crime, Conflict and Media Culture is a recently launched e-journal, edited by Paul Mason, which contains high quality contributions from leading scholars in the areas of media culture, criminal justice and conflict.
- The home page of the International journal Theoretical criminology: An international journal for the advancement of the theoretical aspects of criminology.
- The American Society of Criminology has a division on Women and Crime. The website provides access to copies of their newsletter and other helpful publications on gender and crime.
- Spiked is an independent online publication which offers an alternative and always critical take on the news stories of the day. Its self-stated priorities are liberty, enlightenment, experimentation and excellence.
- Liberty. Website of a leading UK civil liberties pressure group. Contains information on their privacy concerns regarding various surveillance policies and technologies.
- The Surveillance Project. Run by David Lyon and colleagues at the sociology department of the Queen’s University, Canada.
- Just as you'd imagine, the homepage of the US activist and film maker Michael Moore
- The Corporation The website of the successful movie of the same name directed by Marc Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan. Check this out for a stinging critique of US corporate culture.
- Self indulgently, Keith urges those of you who appreciate acoustic music to check out the wonderful songs of singer songwriter Joe Wilkes at: www.joewilkes.co.uk Joe's songs combine the personal with a hard political edge, but always with humility and grace
- Carnivalesque Films
- Mardi Gras: Made in China
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