Criminal Justice Resources: Associations

The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) is an international association established in 1963 to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice. ACJS promotes criminal justice education, research, and policy analysis within the discipline of criminal justice for both educators and practitioners.

The American Society of Criminology is an international organization whose members pursue scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, etiology, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency.

The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to advancing sociology as a scientific discipline and profession serving the public good.

The International Sociological Association (ISA) was founded in 1949 under the auspices of UNESCO. Its goal is to represent sociologists everywhere, regardless of the school of thought, scientific approaches or ideological opinion, and to advance sociological knowledge throughout the world.

The NCJA represents state, tribal and local governments on crime prevention and crime control issues. Its members represent all facets of the criminal and juvenile justice community, from law enforcement, corrections, prosecution, defense, courts, victim-witness services and educational institutions to federal, state and local elected officials.

Founded in 1951, the Society for the Study of Social Problems promotes research and serious examination of problems of social life. They work to solve these problems and develop informed social policy.

Transparency International, the global civil society organization leading the fight against corruption, brings people together in a powerful worldwide coalition to end the devastating impact of corruption on men, women and children around the world. TI’s mission is to create change towards a world free of corruption. Transparency International is a global network including more than 90 locally established national chapters and chapters-in-formation.