Databases

General Resources

• FindLaw
• Court TV: Find Law Legal Resources
• FedWorld.gov Supreme Court Decisions from 1937 to 1975
• LII: Supreme Court Collection: Historic decisions
• Law.com: United States Supreme Court Monitor (searchable by key words)
• Criminal Justice Page by Dave Kopel
• Supreme Court (from PBS)

Gun Control

• Gun Control (from the American Civil Liberties Union who claims to be neutral about the gun control issue)
• Gun Laws, Gun Control and Gun Rights (from JURIST, The Legal Education Network - gives both sides of issue)
• Welcome to Gun Free (a coalition to stop gun violence - argues for gun control)
• The Violence Policy Center (argues for gun control)
• Mother Jones' Resources on Guns and Gun Violence (argues for gun control)
• Pacific Center for Violence Prevention (argues for gun control)
• The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (argues for gun control)
• CNN-State by State Look at Gun Laws in the U.S.
• Gun Control Vs. Gun Rights: The Issue
• National Rifle Association (argues against gun control)
• Second Amendment Online (against gun control)
• Second Amendment Sisters, Inc. (against gun control)
• Gun Owners of America (argues against gun control)
• Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership - Read more about DRGO (argues against gun control)
• Women Against Gun Control
• Who Repealed the Second Amendment? And By What Authority? (argues against gun control)

Censorship

• Protecting Children From Inappropriate Material on the Internet
• Pornography in our Children's Libraries (from Concerned Women For America)
• Porn on the Internet: Is It Free Speech (article in Family Voice a magazine published by the Concerned Women For America)
• Safety on the Internet for Kids (from the Police notebook - University of Oklahoma Department of Public Safety)
• Internet Censorship (from the Electronic Privacy Information Center)
• Cyber-Liberties (from the American Civil liberties Union)
• The Internet Censorship FAQ (by Jonathan Wallace and Mark Mangan)
• Controlling Access to the Internet (by Paul F. Burton)
• Social Issues: Internet Censorship (from Victoria's Network)
• National Coalition Against Censorship (from the Free Expression Policy Project)
• Families Against Internet Censorship
• News Sources on Censorship, Intellectual freedom, and the First Amendment (from the American Library Association's Web site)
• Internet Safety For Schools (from Scholastic)
• New Law Directs Schools to Install Internet Filtering Devices (from Education Week)
• Chalderns' Internet Protection Act (from Tech Law Journal Web site)
• Superhighway Safety: Safe Use of the Internet (Department for Education and Skills)
• Disney Online Guest Services: Internet Safety Tips
• Keeping Kids Safe Online: The Police Notebook
• Internet Safety for Students and Teachers (from Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education)

School Prayer

• School Prayer: A Community at War: Educators Guide Links
• American Civil Liberties Union: Constitutional Amendment on School Prayer or Moment of Silence (against prayer in public schools)
• School Prayer Decision (from American Atheists - against prayer in public schools)
• Public School Prayer Created Violence (from the Religion of Free thought by Bill Jager)
• The Case Against School Prayer by Annie Laurie Gaylor (Freedom From Religion Foundation)
• Issues in Focus: School Prayer - from the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
• School Prayer: News (provides pro and con articles dealing with school prayer)
• Religion In U.S. Public Schools (from Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance)
• School Prayer and Religious Liberty: A Constitutional Perspective by Laurel MacLeod
• Americans for Voluntary School Prayer
• The Christian Science Monitor: Praying At School (for prayer in public schools)
• School Prayer from the National Reform Association (argues for school prayer)
• Nailing Down the Flap Over School Prayer by Andrew Sandlin (for prayer in public schools)
• Those Crazy Extremists (argues for prayer in public schools)

Juveniles Tried As Adults

• Should Juvenile Offenders be tried As Adults? (from the Montgomery Bar Association)
• How State and Local Officials Can Combat Violent Juvenile Crime (the Heritage Foundation)
• Very Few Juveniles are Being tried As Adults (from the National Center for Policy Analysis: Idea House)
• Juvenile Crime (from the National Center for Policy Analysis: Idea House)
• Experts Say End Juvenile Courts (from the National Center for Policy Analysis: Idea House)
• Juveniles Tried and Sentenced as Adults: The Zero - Official Web site of Andrew Vachss)
• Overview of Proposition 21 (from Juvenile Justice Information Center)
• Don't Abandon Our Children to Conveyor Belt Justice (by N. Lee Cooper, president of the American Bar Association)
• Defusing the Myth: Prosecuting Children as Adults Doesn't Work to Reduce Juvenile Crime
• Court TV's Legal Cafe: When Your Child Is in Trouble with the Law
• Governor Pataki Announces Plan to Combat Juvenile Crime
• Governor Pete Wilson Calls for Tough Youth Crime Penalties
• Pennsylvania Newspaper Handbook
• Most Children Get Lost in Politics (an article by N. Lee Cooper in the California Bar Journal - August, 1997)
• Minorities in the Justice System (1999 National Report Series, Juvenile Justice Bulletin, All States Allow Juveniles to Be tried as Adults in Criminal Court Under Certain circumstances)
• Florida Department of Juvenile Justice (Juvenile Offenders are Less Likely to Re-Offend if They Serve Time in Juvenile System, Rather than the Adult System, Senator Rod Smith Says at News Conference.

Capital Punishment

• The Death Penalty/Pro and Con (from Frontline)
• U.S.A. Executions by Year and State
• U.S. Death Penalty Law
• Does Capital Punishment Deter Crime? (argues for capital punishment)
• Capital Punishment from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (argues for capital punishment)
• The Death Penalty: Morally Defensible? (argues for capital punishment)
• Pro-Death Penalty.com
• Capital Punishment and Death Penalty Resources (provides pro and con sites)
• The Death Penalty Information Center
• The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
• Death Penalty Focus (argues against capital punishment)

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