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 Links to Interesting Sites

Advocacy organizations

Child Abuse Prevention Network

Child Welfare League of America

Children’s Defense Fund

Coalition for Juvenile Justice

Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health

Kaiser Family Foundation

Massachusetts Citizens for Juvenile Justice

Massachusetts Kids Count

Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse

Safer Society Foundation, Inc.

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Clinical and medical information

Asperger Syndrome Information

Attention Deficit Disorder in Children and Adults

Directory of Massachusetts psychiatric hospitals for children

Directory of Massachusetts residential programs for children

Nurse’s P.D.R. Resource Site for Prescription Drugs

 

 

Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Bipolar Disorder in Teens

Child and Adolescent Bipolar Foundation

Juvenile Bipolar Research Foundation

National Institutes of Mental Health Mood Disorders Program

National Institutes of Mental Health Office of Rare Diseases

National Institutes of Mental Health Roundtable on Pre-pubertal Bipolar Disorder

Suicide and Youth with Bipolar Disorder

 

 

Federal agencies

Center for Mental Health Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM)

FBI Uniform Crime Reports

National Institute of Mental Health

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse & Neglect

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

OJJDP Sex Offender Research Bibliography

OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book

U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
U.S. Government Printing Office (documents from many federal agencies)  

U.S. Secret Service Threat Assessment Center

 

Forensic resources

Building Blocks for Youth—state by state information on the juvenile justice system

The Institute of Mental Health Law - information about mental health legislation around the world.

Forensic Nursing Resource Links

Forensic Psychology/Psychiatry Database

Forensic Psychology & Psychiatry resource site with forensic links

Forensic Psychiatry On-line

Forensic Psychiatry Resources

Forenzic.com—Law, psychiatry, and public policy resource site

David Willshire's Forensic Psychology & Psychiatry Links Extensive List of Links

National Youth Court Center—listing of youth courts, publications, training and resources

Office of Child Development, Neuropsychiatry and Mental Health

PsychWatch Forensic resources

 

 

Legal research and information

American Bar Association (general legal resources)

FindLaw (Swiss Army knife of internet legal research)  

Law.com

Lawyer’s Weekly

Legal Information Institute (full text of Supreme Court decisions and more)

Massachusetts Mental Health Law—Key Cases

State and Regional Sex Offender Registry Lists
State Mandatory Reporting Laws

State statutes—Connecticut

State statutes—Maine

State Statutes—Massachusetts

State statutes—New Hampshire

State Statutes—Pennsylvania

State Statutes—Rhode Island

State statutes—Vermont
Villanova Center for Information Law & Policy (federal & state court decisions)

 

 

Massachusetts government

Committee for Public Counsel Services

Department of Correction

Department of Mental Health

Department of Social Services

Government Homepage
Massachusetts Legislature
Massachusetts Legislature-Membership list by community
Massachusetts Legislature-Bill tracking page

 

 

Media violence and children’s behavior

Do Video Games Lead to Aggressive Behavior

Grading the Movies

Kids in Mind: Movie Ratings

Media Literacy Online Project

National Institute on the Media and the Family

Teaching Elementary School Children about Media Violence

 

 

Professional associations

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

American Academy of Forensic Psychology/American Board of Forensic Psychology

American Academy of Forensic Sciences

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

American Correctional Association

American Polygraph Association

American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children

American Psychiatric Association

American Psychological Association

American Psychology-Law Society

Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers

Massachusetts Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers

Massachusetts Bar Association

National Association for the Education of Young Children

National Organization of Forensic Social Work

National Association of Social Workers

National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, Forensic Division

 

 

Public information and education

Love Doesn’t have to hurt:  Teen Dating Violence

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Research & literature Sites  
APA's Information Services in Psychology

ChildTrends Data Bank
Clinical Criminology Homepage
Juvenile Sex Offender Research Bibliography at OJJDP (All JSO Topics)
Highwire: Free Reprints of Many Psych. Journal Articles

Macarthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development

Massachusetts DMH Forensic Training & Research
Mental Health Infosource
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

National Child Welfare Resource Center on Legal and Judicial Issues

National Children's Advocacy Center Sex Abuse Bibliographies
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Information Center
National Institute of Mental Health
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention


 

Specific articles and instruments related to sexual aggression
Dept of the Solicitor General, Canada, Corrections Dept. reports about risk assessment
Draft National Residential Treatment Standards for adolescent sexual abuser programs
Registrant Risk Assessment Scale for Sex Offenders

 

 

Targeted school violence

Family Policy Compliance Office (technical assistance on FERPA)

Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA; regulates information sharing by schools)

Final report and findings of the Secret Service Safe School Initiative

Secret Service Guide to Threat Assessment in Schools

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center