Research Centers
- ACORN: Association of Community Organization for Reform Now - In 2010, forty years of activism casme to an end when ACORN filed for bankruptcy. This site still contains their mission statement and the full texts of four annual reports.
- Alcohol Studies Database - 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.
- Center for Immigration Studies - 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.
- Center for Rural Studies - 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.
- Center for the Study of Group Processes - 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.
- Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change - [PDF]
- Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
- CESSDA: Council of European Social Science Data Archives
- Chronic Poverty Research Centre
- Crime Victims' Institute
- European Centre for Minority Issues
- European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA)
- Institute for Families in Society
- Institute for Policy Research
- Institute for Research on Poverty -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.
- Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
- Institute for Social Research
- Institute of Race Relations
- International Institute of Social History
- International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
- International Victimology Web site - Launched in June 1999 "as a resource for all those interested in improving justice for victims of crime and abuse of power." Two databases on current victimology research and promising prevention practices, and a section of full-text documents from the United Nations, the European Union and 30 individual countries' policies.
- Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung/ Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
- National Center for Children in Poverty - 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.
- National Center on Institutions and Alternatives - Areas of interest on this site are criminal justice services, youth arrests, the developmentally disabled, clerical evaluation and therapy, sentencing and death penalty mitigation.
- National Centre for Social Research - Founded in 1969, the Centre is Britain's c
- National Criminal Justice Research Service -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.
- National Institute of Corrections Library - 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.
- National Institute of Justice's MAPS Program - this site profiles three geospatial tools developed by the NIJ applicable to crime statistics generated by law enforcement and corrections agencies.
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Policy Archive
- RAND Europe
- Social Watch
- Survey Research Center - Based at Princeton University, 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".
- The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
- The Migration Information Source - A monthly publication which has been appearing since the spring of 2002
- University of Alaska Anchorage Institute of Social and Economic Research - Alaska's oldest public policy research center.
- West Coast Poverty Center -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.
Subject Guide
Robert Ridinger
Contact:
268A Founders Memorial Library, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL 6015-2868.