WGST 221: Gender, Race, and the Carceral State: Find Internet Resources

Think Tank Search searches the websites of institutions that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity. These sites are affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and businesses.

"The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society."

Includes policy resources and advocacy programs on prison reform.

"The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s. The Scope of this collection includes audio, video and a variety of paper materials all pertaining to prisons and the struggle against them. This is an extremely broad collection with a wealth of knowledge from many prison organizations, both inside and outside, active from c. 1970 to present."

County-level data on admissions and releases from 2019-present. Data may include inmate gender, race, crime, and other details.

"CJRP asks all juvenile residential facilities in the United States to describe each person younger than 21 assigned a bed in the facility on the census date as a result of a status or delinquency offense. Facilities report individual-level information on gender, date of birth, race, placement authority, most serious offense charged, court adjudication status, and admission date."

The Southern Poverty Law Center's map of hate groups in the U.S. You can view the data in map format or download it to perform analyses.

Data files from the US Sentencing Commission on federal sentencing practices. Files include data on individual offenders, organizational offenders, special collections, and special reports.

Data on probation, state jails, parole, and more.

Qualitative and quantitative information on over 300 indicators of women's status in 174 countries. First time users must register. Use the codebook to define the variable.