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ECON 355/CRIM 355 Economics of Crime

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  • Try using combinations like "crime and economic outcomes" or "crime prevention costs."
  • Use the "peer-reviewed" filter so that you can find these articles for your research as assigned
  • Search for articles with terms like "economics of crime and punishment" for broader interdisciplinary coverage

 

Bureau of Justice Statistics gathers data to begin to measure the cost of crime.

Caselaw Access Project The Caselaw Access Project (“CAP”) expands public access to U.S. law. Our goal is to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to the public online, in a consistent format, digitized from the collection of the Harvard Law Library.

FBI Criime Data Explorer aims to provide transparency, create easier access, and expand awareness of criminal, and noncriminal, law enforcement data sharing; improve accountability for law enforcement; and provide a foundation to help shape public policy with the result of a safer nation. Use the CDE to discover available data through visualizations, download data in .csv format, and other large data files.

Federal Reserve Board of Governors tracks and reports on a number of financial statistics, including banking statistics

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) is the place to discover, access, and analyze data on crime and justice.

National Bureau of Economic Research: Economics of Crime studies economic elements of the causes and consequences of crime, with particular emphasis on interventions in the criminal justice system and elsewhere that may lower crime rates.

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization.

Our World in Data is a collaborative research project between the University of Oxford and the Global Change Data Lab. Its datasets are heavily focused on global socioeconomic issues and crises.

STATS Indiana provides easy, one-stop access to critical statistics for states, counties, cities and towns, townships, regions, census tracts and more.

Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) An annual publication in which the FBI compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies. This report also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data.

US Bureau of Labor Statistics

US Census Bureau The Census Bureau homepage serves as the gateway to the vast array of Census data. 

US Census Bureau Economic Indicators The U.S. Census Bureau Index of Economic Activity (IDEA) is an aggregation of 15 of the Census Bureau’s primary economic data series that provides a single time series constructed as a weighted average.

United States Sentencing Commission The Commission collects, analyzes, and distributes a broad array of information on federal sentencing practices.

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  • Know what your instructor allows
  • Be ethical
  • indicate how you've used AI

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  • generate keyterms
  • identify signficant legal cases
  • check spelling and grammar
  • create graphics (you will have to input the information for the diagram)

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  • generate a video or text 
  • write citations 
  • generate a list of articles 
  • summarize articles