For statistics on criminal justice, an excellent source is the Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics

To access the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, and use the

General Social Survey, use: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/gss/. This includes a codebook and an extract-analyze utility which can be used to produce cross-tabulations. It also provides a link to a faster system at the University of California survey center, which can be access directly at:http://csa.berkeley.edu:7502/cgi-bin/hcsa?harcsda.2+gss94c. This can also be used to scan the GSS codebook as well as doing cross-tabulations.
 
 
 
 

A good place to begin in accessing government statistics is the Statistical Abstract of the United States, which can be found at: http://www.census.gov/statab/www/. The census bureau's home page is at http://www.census.gov . You can search for the statistics you want on the WEB, or you can download *.pdf files which can be viewed in Adobe Acrobat software, available free on the WEB.
 
 

A good source for economic statistics is the Economic Report of the President, available conveniently from the University of Missouri at http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/erp/1997/sigs.htm