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Organizations

National

• American Bar Association
  • ABA Ethics Division - answers to 10 most common questions arising in course of client representation.
  • Links to other Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Sites
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Amnesty International (Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.)
• Association of Federal Defense Attorneys (AFDA is the only association devoted exclusively to the interests of federal criminal defense attorneys. The organization has been formed with a commitment to provide attorneys with the educational resources and support that are essential to effectively represent defendants in federal district and appellate courts.)
• Criminal Justice Legal Foundation (CJLF's purpose is to assure that people who are guilty of committing crimes receive swift and certain punishment in an orderly and thoroughly constitutional manner.)
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL)
• National Bar Association
• National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA)
• Public Defender Investigator Network
• Southern Center for Human Rights (A non-profit, public interest legal project, founded in 1976, to enforce the constitutional protection against "cruel and unusual punishment" by challenging excessive and degrading forms of punishment and cruel and inhuman conditions of confinement.)
• United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN serves as an electronic clearing-house for criminal justice related issues coordinated by the United Nations Centre for International Crime Prevention, Vienna)

State

• California Public Defenders Association
• California State Public Defender Office
• Georgia Public Defender Standards Council
• Illinois Office of the Appellate Defender
• Indiana State Bar Association
• Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy
• Michigan Appellate Defender Office
• New York State Defenders Association
• Seattle Public Defender Association
• Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Criminal Justice Information

• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD acquires, archives, processes, and provides access to electronic criminal justice data collections for research and instruction. The NACJD Web site provides downloadable access to hundreds of criminal justice data collections free of charge. Searchable)
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS is a federally sponsored information clearinghouse for people around the country and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. Searchable)
• Vera Institute of Justice (Working in collaboration with government, the Vera Institute of Justice designs and implements innovative programs that encourage just practices in public services and improve the quality of urban life. Searchable)

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