Non-governmental professional associations, advocacy groups, and research centers sometimes provide crucial, specialized criminal justice information not available from official governmental sources. Most such organizations have presences on the Web. The best directory for locating them (either by subject or name) are:

• Associations Unlimited (Gale) (http://www.lib.odu.edu/cgi-bin/databases/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=121)

Note: Access to these subscription databases is restricted to odu.edu internet addresses. Off-campus access is available through the library's proxy server. See the library's proxy server information page for details.

You may also be able to find such groups using widely available Internet directories or search engines like:

• Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)
• Google (http://www.google.com)
• Librarians' Index to the Internet (http://lii.org/)

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