Research Guides : Criminal Justice

Suggested Search Terms and Call Numbers Range for Print Sources

Criminal Justice, Administration of
Criminology
Crime
Criminal law
Criminals
Justice, Administration of

Here are entered works on the criminal justice system. Works on the discipline that studies the causes, detection and prevention of crime, and the treatment or punishment of criminals, are entered under Criminology. Works on the occurrence of crime are entered under Crime.

HV7231 - HV9960

Databases (FS Access Only)

(Listed by database from which they may be accessed. Click here to go to the list of databases. )

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
Provides indexing with abstracts and some full text of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. Indexes 1981-current.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Selected Legal Research from the menu at the left. Choose from Secondary Literature, Case Law, Codes & Regulations, International Legal Materials, Patent Research, and Career Information. Law Review articles, newspapers, state codes, cases, and all other materials are full-text.

Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (via WilsonWeb)
Provides indexing with abstracts of articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books. Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Covers all areas of jurisprudence, including recent court decisions, new legislation, and original scholarship. Indexing 1982-current, Full text 1994-current. *Subset of Wilson OmniFile Full text Mega. 'Legal (ILP)' from the pull down menu under 'Subject Area'.

REFERENCE

The concise dictionary of crime and justice / Mark S. Davis.
REF HV6017 .D38 2002

The dictionary of criminal justice / George E. Rush ; with summaries of Supreme Court cases affecting criminal justice [by] Judith Hails Kaci.
REF HV7411 .R87 2000

The encyclopedic dictionary of criminology / George E. Rush, Sam Torres.
REF HV6017 .R87 1998

The Roxbury dictionary of criminal justice: key terms and major court cases / Dean J. Champion.
REF HV7411 .C48 1997

Encyclopedia of crime and punishment / David Levinson, editor.
REF HV6017 .E524 2002 v.1-4

Encyclopedia of forensic sciences / editor-in-chief, Jay A. Siegel
REF HV8073.E58 2000 v. 1-3

Encyclopedia of crime and justice [electronic resource]. Dressler, Joshua, Editor in Chief.
[ Gale's Virtual Reference Library ]

Sourcebook of criminal justice statistics online [electronic resource] / Bureau of Justice Statistics. Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
[ http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/ ]

The Oxford handbook of criminology / edited by Mike Maguire,
HV6025 .O87 2002

The great pictorial history of world crime / Jay Robert Nash.
HV6215 .N37 2004 v.1-2

Web Sites

Criminal Justice Resources on the Web
Comprehensive site for criminal justice related Internet resources. Provides links to diverse sources such as law databases, federal criminal justice agencies, police agencies, criminal justice information systems and statistics, juvenile delinquency, prisons, discussion groups, electronic journals, court decisions, and international criminal justice sources on topics such as drug and alcohol abuse, civil rights, due process, juvenile delinquency, crime statistics, and prisons.

Bureau of Justice Statistics Search
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Search provides statistics about -- Crime and victims, -- Drugs and crime, -- Criminal offenders, -- The justice system in the United States, -- Law enforcement, -- Prosecution, -- Courts and sentencing, -- Corrections, -- Justice expenditure and employment." Datasets are available for downloading. Go back to the BJS homepage to get more detail on titles/series available.
Use checkoff-boxes to limit searches:
Search the entire BJS website, or limit to PDF-documents or other categories;
Office of Justice Programs -- searches all OJP websites including BJS.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service : includes many publications from the OJP agencies including some BJS publications.

U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics
The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics provides statistical reports on crime, criminal justice, law enforcement, and criminals in the United States. In addition, data sets are available for downloading. Also offered are: BJS electronic publications; BJS press releases; and descriptions of BJS products, funding programs, and programs.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service is a very well-organized, comprehensive site offering access to information about crime, law enforcement, and criminal justice in the United States

Last Modified: 4/10/2006