Research Guides: Conservation Criminology and Environmental Justice: Finding Data

Basic Data Sources

Statista: Statista integrates statistical data from over 80,000 topics in areas such as business, education, finance, media, politics, society, and technology. Statista gathers data from over 18,000 sources, including market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. The reports, charts, infographics, and statistics found in the database can be downloaded in Excel, PDF, PNG, or PowerPoint formats or embedded in web pages. Rutgers-restricted Access

Data-Planet Statistical Datasets: Access to data from more than 70 organizational sources. Most data series focus on recent years and a few prior decades, although some data series extend back to the 19th century. Rutgers-restricted Access

Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities with Hazardous Waste Sites: United Church of Christ, Commission for Racial Justice, 1987.; Documented that three out of five African Americans live in communities with abandoned toxic waste sites. Available?

Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987-2007: Grassroots Struggles to Dismantle Environmental Racism in the United States: Found that 20 years after the release of the original Toxic Wastes report, significant racial and socioeconomic disparities persist in the distribution of commercial hazardous waste facilities. Available?

National Center for Environmental Health: Data Resources: A reference list of nationally funded data systems that have a relationship to environmental public health.