A useful place to begin is withYahoo's selection of Criminal Justice sites.  Yahoo has humans who select its sites, most other search engines rely largely on keyword search, which can also be very useful if you use it carefully.  The New York Times has a useful selection of Search Engines and other references sources on its sCyberTimes Navigator.   To use this, you must be a Times subscriber, which is free and very useful.

Jon'a Meyer teaches a course on the use of the Internet in Criminal Justice.  She has supplied a list of CJ Sites.

Everyone in this class should subscribe to the New York Times online.  The site has a Search facility, although you have to pay for the most extensive searching (archive searching).  They usually give new subscribers some free samples, however, which should be enough for your project if you use it carefully.  They do not have a "criminal justice" or "crime" category, the stories are included with national or local news.  Use the Search facility, not the one which is linked to the Barnes and Noble advertisement, but the one which searches the Times site.  At first, your search will just be for the one day, so try again opting for "all articles."  Finding things here depends on thoughtful use of key words and quotation marks. The Times also If you click on "Services" you can arrange to have the Times home page of your choice emailed to you every day, and you can set "Personal Search" paramaters so it will search each day for your topic.  This is a good way to monitor your topic every day.

Other Newspapers are also available online:
 Philadelphia Online    (includes the Inquirer and Daily News) and  The Courier-Post  South Jersey's Information Leader Since 1875 may be especially useful for local information.  Our library also has the Inquirer on CD-Rom, which works quickly.

Another useful source, of course, is the Rutgers Library.  I find the Uncover index very useful.  You get to it by going to Indexes, then to Social Science.  You can access Uncover from home, through Rutgers, but many of the sources must be accessed from on campus or you can go through the new procedures for off campus access.  A useful source on the Rutgers menu is Proquest Direct, which often provides the full text of articles.  If you look up journals on Iris, you will find that some of them have online access.

Our textbook publisher, Wadsworth, maintains a useful criminal justice site. The key page on their site is called CJ Sites, although you may also like their FunSites.

Another list of CJ Sites, apparently maintained by a hobbyist, is on Geocities.