Research
This is a collection of useful research sources for those interested in writing policy on Equal Justice. If you are having trouble accessing or finding any of the research resources listed below, or would like to suggest an addition, please e-mail mfischler@rooseveltinstitute.org.
This research depository will be updated constantly, so make sure to check back!
Organizations
CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
CIVIL RIGHTS
Center for American Progress: Civil Rights, Liberties, and Justice
NAACP Legal and Education Defense Fund, Inc
Criminal Justice
Center for American Progress: Civil Rights, Liberties and Justice
NAACP Legal and Education Defense Fund, Inc: Criminal Justice Program
Pew Center on the States: Corrections and Public Safety
Urban Institute: Crime and Justice Center and Justice Policy Center
US Dept. of Justice: National Institute of Corrections
US Dept of Justice: National Institute of Justice
US Dept of Justice: Office of Justice Programs (great catalog of all federal programs pertaining to criminal justice)
ELECTORAL REFORM/VOTING RIGHTS
American Civil Liberties Union: Voting Rights Project
Brookings/American Enterprise Institute: Election Reform Project (Provides a diversity of perspectives progressive and conservative on the issue of Electoral reform.
Center for Democracy and Election Management at American University
NAACP Legal and Education Defense Fund: Voter Protection Project
LGBT Rights
Center for American Progress: Civil Rights, Liberties and Justice
NAACP Legal and Education Defense Fund, Inc: Right to Marry Project
Poverty and Homelessness
Brookings: Metropolitan Policy Program
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Center on Law and Social Policy
Half in Ten: The Campaign to Cut Poverty in Ten Years
List of State Homeless and Housing Advocacy Organizations
NAACP Legal and Education Defense Fund: Economic Justice Program
National Alliance to End Homelessness
National Coalition for the Homeless
National Coalition for Low-Income Housing:
-State Internet Research Repository
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
- Employment Center
- Housing Center
- Income & Benefits Policy Center
- Low- Income Working Families Project
- Poverty and the Safety Net Center
US Department of Housing and Urban Development:
-Office of Policy Development and Research
Blogs
Change.org:
Civil Rights
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
This week in civil rights (a weekly email newsletter)
Scholarly Database
(Please consult your University Library to gain access to these databases)
Statistical Resources
Criminal Justice
FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports: Hate Crime Statistics
Justice Department: Bureau of Justice Statistics
Justice Research and Statistics Association (Great place to find state justice statistics)
Sentencing Project: Criminal Justice Statistics by State
US Census: American Community Survey
US Sentencing Commission: Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Stats
Poverty and Homelessness:
National Coalition on Human Needs: State-by-State Data on Human Needs
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law: 2008 Poverty Scorecard (rates all Members of congress on how they voted on anti-poverty legislation)
US Census: American Community Survey
Reports
Criminal Justice
One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 (Pew Center on the States)
One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections 2009 (Pew Center on the States)
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
“The Future of Fair Housing: Report of the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal opportunity” Dec. 2008”
Executive Summary: http://www.nationalfairhousing.org/Portals/33/National%20Commission/NFHA%20Executive%20Summary%20FINAL.pdf
Entire Report: http://www.nationalfairhousing.org/Portals/33/reports/Future_of_Fair_Housing.PDF
LGBT Rights
- “Family, Unvalued: Discrimination, Denial, and the Fate of Binational Same-Sex Couples under U.S. Law” Human Rights Watch, May 2006
Recommended Reading
Criminal Justice
Harcourt, Bernard E. Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001.
Mauer, Marc, and Meda Chesney-Lind, eds. Invisible Punishment: The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment. New York: New P, 2002.
Watch: Frontline: The Plea - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plea/view/
Public Housing and Urban Poverty
- American Project, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
- Black Picket Fences, Mary Pattillo
- Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American City, Paul A. Jargowsky
- The Promised Land, Nicholas Lehman
- The Truly Disadvantaged, William Julius Wilson
- There Are No Children Here, Alex Kotlowitz
Welfare and the Social Safety Net
- American Dream, Jason DeParle