Institute
for Research on Poverty
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) is a national, university-based
center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty and
social inequality in the United States. It is nonprofit and nonpartisan.
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
IRSS
Public Opinion Data Archive
Founded by Howard W. Odum in 1924 for the "cooperative study
of problems in the general field of social science," UNC's Howard
W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science has evolved into
a center offering many diverse services to support the research and
training of social science faculty and graduate students. The Institute
maintains the country's third-largest archive of computer-readable
social science data. Holdings include national and international economic,
electoral, demographic, financial, health, public opinion, and other
types of data to meet a variety of research and teaching needs.
http://www2.irss.unc.edu/irss/home.asp
Justice
Information Center: a service of the National Criminal Justice Reference
Service
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance
abuse information to support research, policy, and program development
worldwide.
http://www.ncjrs.org/
Nations of the
World: (nations and associated jurisdictions)
As nations of the world become increasinly interrelated, citizens
need to learn about the citizens of other countries and become familiar
with cultures of the numerous and divergent peopled who comprise humankind.
Knowledge and understanding of the laws of various nations and their
associated jurisdiction is essential. This Web site is a brilliant
and exhaustive attempt to deliver such information. It emphasizes
links that offer the full texts of laws regulations, and court decisions,
along with expert commentary from prcaticing legal professionals.
The site is intended to serve both professional and general readers.
Accordingly, access to information, ability to download or print,
and ability to disseminate the information is very easy for novices
as well as seasoned Internet users.
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/nations.html
Panel
Study of Income Dynamics
The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US
individuals and the families in which they reside. It has been ongoing
since 1968. The data were collected annually through 1997, and biennially
starting in 1999. The data files contain the full span of information
collected over the course of the study. PSID data can be used for
cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intergenerational analysis and
for studying both individuals and families.
http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/
Population
Index 1986-1998 On the Web
Population Index presents an annotated bibliography of recently published
books, journal
articles, working papers and other materials on population topics
like marriage and the family, fertility, mortality and migration.
The entire published database (over 40,000 citations) for 1986-1998
is available online and can be searched by author, subject, geographical
region, year of publication and free text.
http://popindex.princeton.edu/index.html
Praxis:
Resources for Social and Economic Development
PRAXIS provides access to a vast array of archival resources on international
and comparative social development.
http://caster.ssw.upenn.edu/%7Erestes/praxis.html
Social
Science Data Archives
This site points users to repositories of data useful to social scientists
in North America and Europe.
http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/namer.html
Social
Sciences WWW Virtual Library
A large, wide-ranging list that goes well beyond the normally accepted
scope of the Social
Sciences. Its very size, however, somewhat reduces its usefulness.
http://vlib.org/SocialSciences
Sociology
WWW Virtual Library
All types of resources are here including scholarly and professional
organizations, academic
departments, research centers and public and private institutions
worldwide.
http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/w3virtsoclib/
Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics Online
Over 600 tables from more than 100 Sources reveal data concerning
all aspects of criminal
justice in the United States. While this site represents the most
recent update, earlier editions are still available online from The
Bureau of Justice Statistics.
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
