Sociology: Research Centers

In 2010, forty years of activism came to an end when ACORN filed for bankruptcy. This site still contains their mission statement and the full texts of four annual reports

This resource contains more than 60,000 citations to journal articles, books, and book chapters) conference papers, dissertations, and audio-visual materials collected at Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University since 1987.

Since 1985, this Washington- based group has focused attention on gathering accurate data on both legal and illegal immigration to the United States and providing it to both policymakers and the general public.

Founded in 1978 at the University of Vermont, this agency serves both as a center for state census data and offers an online backfile of its publications on Vermont's communities to 1995.

A multidisciplinary research center founded at the University of Iowa in 1892 to provide support for group processes study. "Group", as defined here, covers formal organizations, political groups, families, intimates, social categories and societies.

Based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1966, the Institute is one of three such bodies that monitor social inequality nationally within the United States,. Special emphasis placed on family welfare in the Midwest.

Based at Columbia University's School of Public Health since 1989, the Center offers demographic information on levels of poverty by state, data tools for calculating aspects of poverty , profiles of current projects and areas of concern, and the most recent annual report.

Areas of interest on this site are criminal justice services, youth arrests, the developmentally disabled, clerical evaluation and therapy, sentencing and death penalty mitigation.

The largest independent and not-for-profit social research organization in the UK, founded in 1969

Operating as part of the U.S. Justice Department, the Service offers a massive body of data on all types of crime and issues within the criminal justice system.

the emphasis of this online full-text collection is in unpublished materials generated by correctional agencies that focus on internal operations, supplemented by publications of the National Institute of Corrections.

Based at the University of Michigan, this sites offers "nearly everything useful on the web for the practice of survey research." Researchers should begin with the section on "Poll and Survey Findings and Data".

-Created in October 2005 at the University of Washington as one of three national centers monitoring poverty on a regional scale, the Center offers analysis of poverty in the west coast region using the factors of labor markets, demographics, family and inequality.