A range of academic papers, reports and commentary pieces are available online and publicly available. Some are highlighted within the various chapters, and these can be great additional items to build your knowledge and understanding. Some of these are expressly focused on criminology/criminal justice, whilst others are broader in exploring matters such as social inequality. An example of the former is the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/, which has regularly updated policy reviews, commentary pieces and reports covering aspects of crime and criminal justice matters.

The British Society of Criminology at https://www.britsoccrim.org/ also offers links to research in Criminology, as well as news of events and activities you might want to be become involved with, for example, the annual main society conference, as well as specialised smaller conferences, focused on specific Criminological areas. This also offers a link to one of most important academic journals in Criminology, the British Journal of Criminology.

At the London School of Economics, the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at http://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/research/Research-clusters/Mannheim offers links to studies and reports that cover aspects of crime and justice, and indeed, elsewhere you will find examples of other university Criminology centres and departments through which you can access materials useful to your studies, such as academic studies and reports because they often have a ‘research’ link or tab on their websites. For example, the Oxford University Centre for Criminology at https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-criminology/research

Other sites, often focused on specific issues within criminal justice, are also great places to find information, data and reports for you to use in your work. Some of these have been used within the book. For example, the Prison Reform Trust at http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/ and the Howard League for Penal Reform at https://howardleague.org/ give you up-to-date information and reports on issues such as prison conditions, children in prisons, reoffending and so on.

It is also worth flagging-up the Office for National Statistics website at https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice, particularly the sections on crime and justice where you can not only access datasets of official and victimisation survey crime data, but there are also separate reports and summaries of the data and trends. In other countries too such data are available for you to use, for example, via the FBI website in the United States at https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s

Such organisations with a more international focus include Reprieve at https://reprieve.org.uk/ who are concerned with the abolition of torture and the death penalty, whilst the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime at https://www.unodc.org/ also gives you a more global and comprehensive view of crime and justice issues, and similarly, you can download and utilise reports and studies from the site. You might also consider using the Interpol and Europol sites for similar purposes at https://www.interpol.int/ and https://www.europol.europa.eu/

An example of a broader type of site is that of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation at https://www.jrf.org.uk/, which similarly allows you to access a range of policy review and reports, and studies carried out related to matters such as social exclusion, poverty and welfare, which all of course have a relationship with crime. There are also useful statistics to download. Similarly, the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), which is based at the London School of Economics, also allows you to access a range of useful studies and policy reviews regarding inequality and various social policy areas.

Other sites expressly focused around human rights and social justice, such as Human Rights Watch at https://www.hrw.org/ and the United Nations Human Rights Council at https://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/pages/home.aspx are worth accessing. Amnesty International's site is also worth a visit, given its focus on controversies of human rights, social justice and forms of crime. Here too you can download reports and studies on specific areas you are researching, for example, sexual violence. See the list of topics at https://www.amnesty.org.uk/issues. The Helena Kennedy Centre from International Justice at https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/academic-departments/law-and-criminology/the-helena-kennedy-centre-for-international-justice (at Sheffield Hallam University) is an example of a university-based centre through which you can access topical discussions of social justice and human rights issues and link to recent and ongoing project work and studies.