African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Book)
Shaun L. Gabbidon et al., Authors. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2002.

The story of African Americans and the criminal justice system is chronicled in the essays contained in this edited volume. Topics covered include crime and race, discrimination in the criminal justice system, and the social conditions of the African American community.

The Disproportionate Confinement of African American Juvenile Delinquents (Book)
John K. Mooradian, Author. New York, NY: LFB Scholarly Publications, 2003.

The African American Church has always focused on its youth. This study reports statistics that may be helpful to churches who wish to focus on the ever increasing rates of incarceration of young African Americans.

Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America (Book)
Geoffrey Canada, Author. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1996.

Fist Stick Knife Gun integrates real stories with tangible solutions. A brutally honest account of a childhood in the Bronx, this book presents a personal history of violence in America and a hopeful plea for the salvation of the children caught in today’s crossfire. Geoffrey Canada is willing not only to discuss this crisis, but also to offer firsthand solutions. One example is the Countee Cullen Community Center in Harlem, which provides unity, education, and safety for the neighboring community.

Impacts of Incarceration on the African American Family (Book)
Othello Harris and R. Robin Miller, Authors. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003.

When one member of the family is incarcerated, many who are not behind prison bars suffer also. This edited volume takes up the affect of imprisonment on prisoner’s families, especially the children, and highlights ways in which these effects may be addressed.

Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison (Book)
Paula C. Johnson, Author. New York, NY: New York University Press, 2003.

From their jail cells the voices, struggles, hopes, dreams, and confessions of African American women are presented for the reader’s consideration. Johnson suggests ways in which these women’s lives are connected to the larger community and calls that same community into an act of reconciliation for the women and the community.

Refiner’s Fire: A Religious Engagement With Violence (Book)
Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Author. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2000.

What does religion have to do with fomenting or transcending violence? In this fascinating work, Cheryl Kirk-Duggan documents and analyzes religion’s involvement in violence—for good and ill—in the Bible, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the youth scene of today.

The Sentencing Project (Organization)

The Sentencing Project is a nationally known source of criminal justice policy analysis, data, and program information. Its Web site is designed to provide resources and information for the news media and a public concerned with criminal justice and sentencing issues. The Web site is a gold mine of fact sheets, publications, policy reports, and news on the criminal justice system.

U.S. Department of Justice (Organization)
Office of Justice Programs

Since 1984, the Office of Justice Programs has provided federal leadership in developing the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime, improve the criminal and juvenile justice systems, increase knowledge about crime and related issues, and assist crime victims. The Web site presents a number of reports under various subject headings.