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Video

• http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.  
  Steven Pinker discusses the decline of violence over the past 2000 years.

Web Resource

• https://www.ncjrs.gov/. 
  Web site of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, providing statistics on a variety of topics involving crime.

• www.amnesty.org. 
  Web site of Amnesty International; it gives readers a sense of how the rest of the world views the U.S. criminal justice system through recent and archived material.

• www.fbi.gov. 
  Web site of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which offers information on national and international criminal activities as well as crime prevention tips.

• www.manhattan-institute.org. 
  Web site of the Manhattan Institute; includes archived articles from the institute’s City Journal, which addresses such issues as the effects of racism.

• http://www.nij.gov/Pages/welcome.aspx. 
  Web site of the National Institutes of Justice, the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice; the agency researches crime control and justice issues, particularly at the state and local levels.

• www.sentencingproject.org. 
  Web site of the Sentencing Project, which offers data and information about racial disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system.

• www.vera.org. 
  Web site of the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonprofit organization that conducts research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to improve the justice system.