Social Issues
- Abortion Law Homepage -- Provides information to help understand the background and state of abortion law in America and access to related legal material.
- Affirmative Action and Diversity Project -- Presents diverse opinions regarding Affirmative Action topics.
- America's War Against Terrorism
- Banned Books Online
- Building Blocks for Youth -- Juvenile Crime and Justice.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics on Capital Punishment
- Center for Defense Information - Terrorism
- Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence -- Access to the Violence Literature Database and to statistics on violence.
- Child Labor: 1750-1900
- Child Labor in America: 1908-1912
- Child Welfare Information Gateway: Child Abuse and Neglect
- Club Drugs
- Coroner's Report - Gangs -- Information and resources on gang intervention and prevention.
- Death Penalty Abolition News and Updates -- From Amnesty International. Includes fact sheets and links to additional sites for information.
- Death Penalty Information Center
- Domestic Violence Project of Santa Clara County
- Drinking and Driving Theme Page
- Drug Facts -- Office of National Drug Control Policy.
- Drug Guide -- Comprehensive database of what drugs look like and what they do.
- Drug Wars
- Drugs and Crime Facts -- Summarizes U.S. statistics about drug-related crimes, law enforcemant, courts, and corrections from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
- Drugs of Concern
- Dying to be Thin -- Companion site to the Nova documentary.
- Elder Abuse
- Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920
- Erowid's Psychoactive Vaults -- Information about psychoactive plants and chemicals.
- Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) -- Contains data on all vehicle crashes in the United States that occur on a public roadway and involve a fatality in the crash.
- Federal Death Penalty System: A Statistical Survey (1998-2000)
- Firearm Injury Center -- Provides information and analysis concerning firearms and related morbidity and mortality.
- Free Expression Clearinghouse
- Freedom of Information Center -- Access to government documents and information.
- Gun Control Laws -- A collection of links collected by About.com.
- Gun Laws, Gun Control, and Gun Rights -- A guide presenting all sides of the gun control controversy.
- High School Debate Topics -- Points to web pages relating to the debate topics.
- History of Slavery
- Holocaust
- Homeless -- Information from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- Homelessness in California
- Homework Center - Social Issues -- Links to websites providing multiple perspectives on current social issues.
- Hot Paper Topics
- Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2004
- Institute for Counter-Terrorism -- Provides databases on international terrorist organizations, terrorist attacks worldwide, and current events related to terrorism.
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour: IPEC
- IRSS Public Opinion Poll Question Database -- Archive of public opinions polls provided by the Institute for Research in Social Science.
- MagBot -- Online periodical articles corresponding to hot topics.
- Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
- Marketing of Violent Entertainment to Children
- National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids
- National Coalition Against Censorship
- National Drug Threat Assessment 2007
- Racial Profiling in America
- The Right-to-Know Network -- Access to information on the environment, housing, and sustainable development.
- Sexual Harassment Resources
- Smart Library on Crime
- Smart Library on Urban Poverty
- SpeakOut - Issues
- Stem Cell Debate
- Stem Cell Research
- Street Drugs
- Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
- Students Against Testing -- Arguments against standardized testing.
- Terrorism Research Center
- Tobacco Information & Prevention Sourcepage
- TRAC Immigration
- USA Patriot Act
- USA Patriot Act -- Information collected by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
- Warning Signs of Youth Violence
- Web Genocide Documation Centre -- Links to Internet resources on genocide and mass killings.
- Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General
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