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More Great Links

• The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry
• The National Crime Information Center
• The National Driver Register
• The Federal Bonding Program
• INTERPOL

Sources

• Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Criminal Justice Information Services."
  http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/cjis.htm
• Federal Bureau of Investigation. "FBI Criminal History Checks for Employment and Licensing."
  http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/backgroundchk.htm
• Federal Bureau of Investigation. "FBI Identification Record Request."
  http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/fprequest.htm
• Federal Bureau of Investigation. "Freedom of Information Privacy Act."
  http://foia.fbi.gov/nics552g.htm
• Findlaw for the Public. "Expungement (Erasing an Arrest or Conviction)."
  http://criminal.findlaw.com/crimes/expungement/
• Findlaw for the Public. "Juvenile Court Procedure."
  http://criminal.findlaw.com/crimes/juvenile-justice/juvenile-court-
  procedure.html
• Gonnerman, Jennifer. "Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett." Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2004.
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) - U.S. Department of Transportation. "National Driver Register."
  http://www.nhtsa.gov/portal/site/nhtsa/menuitem.f27748441
  b1ad09d07b2e610cba046a0/
• National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
  http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/nics/nicsindex.htm
• Petersilia, Joan. "When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry." Oxford University Press. 2003.
• Pike, John. National Crime Information Center (NCIC). 1/18/2006.
  http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fbi/is/ncic.htm
• The FBI National Crime Information Center (NCIC). "NCIC Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics for 2005."
  http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/ncic.htm
• U.S. Department of Justice - Bureau of Justice Statistics. "Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001." August 2003.
  http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/piusp01.htm
• U.S. Department of Justice. "The Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Registry."
  http://www.nsopr.gov/
• U.S. Department of Labor. "The Federal Bonding Program."
  http://www.bonds4jobs.com/
• U.S. Department of State - Bureau of Consular Affairs. "Criminal Record Checks."
  http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/emergencies/emergencies_1201.html
• Wisconsin Department of Justice. "Interstate Identification Index."
  http://www.doj.state.wi.us/DLES/cibmanuals/files/TIME/HTML
  /interstateidentificationindex.htm