Research Guides: OER Open Education Resources: Legal Studies

Justice and Public Safety

American Prison Newspapers, 1800-Present American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. When complete, the collection will contain newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, including women-only institutions.

C-SPAN Video Library One of the most comprehensive video archives of governmental and political content. Freely available to the public. Search terms: “criminology" and “criminal justice.”
Criminal Justice Open Courseware
FBI: Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) A series of statistical crime reports and publications detailing specific offenses and outlining trends.
Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System OER textbook published 2019
MERLOT - Criminal Justice MERLOT provides discipline-specific learning materials including learning exercises, projects, papers, and class activities.
MIT OpenCourseware - Legal Studies MIT's teaching materials for many subjects.
OER Commons - Law OER Commons is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources and other freely available instructional materials.
OpenLearn - Society, Politics, & Law
Open Textbook Library - Law Provides a growing catalog of free, peer-reviewed, and openly-licensed textbooks.