Criminology
 Books & Suggested LC Subject Headings |
| Reference Materials |
| Databases for Journal Articles |
| Internet Resources |
- Community policing
- Computer crimes
- Corrections
- Crime
- Criminal
- Criminal justice
- Criminal law
- Criminals
- Criminology
- Crime in mass media
- Criminal psychology
- Drug traffic
- Drunk driving
- Family violence (used instead of 'domestic violence')
- Homicide
- Juvenile delinquency
- Juvenile delinquents
- Law enforcement
- Narcotics and crime
- Human rights
- Imprisonment
- Law enforcement
- Mass media and criminal justice
- Organized crime
- Police ethics
- Punishment
- Restorative justice
- Sentences (Criminal procedure)
- Social justice
- Strikes and lockouts
- Sex crimes
- Transnational crime
- Victims of crimes
- White collar crimes
Books from the following series can also be good starting points.
Contemporary World Issues
Current Controversies
Taking Sides
Opposing Viewpoints
A gallery of rogues : portraits in true crime / Michael Kurland. Ref HV6769 .K87 1994
A Statistical portrait of the United States : social conditions and trends / edited by Mark S. Littman ; [contributors: Mark S. Littman ... [et. al.]]. Ref HA214 .S73 1998
Crimes of war : what the public should know / edited by Roy Gutman and David Rieff ; legal editor, Kenneth Anderson. Ref K5301 .C75 1999
Crime in the United States. Ref HV6787 .U55 2004
- Crime statistics. Older issues in Documents collection
Crime state rankings. Ref HV6787 .C77 2003
The Dictionary of crime terms / Carl Sifakis. Ref HV6017 .S54 2003
Encyclopedia of American prisons / editors, Marilyn D. McShane, Frank P. Williams III. Ref HV9471 .E425 1996
Encyclopedia of crime and justice. New York : Macmillan Reference USA, c2002. Ref HV6017 .E52 2002 v.1-4
- Useful for biography and discussion of theories. Includes bibliographical references.
Encyclopedia of terrorism / Harvey W. Kushner. Ref HV6431 .K883 2003
Encyclopedia of white-collar & corporate crime / general editor, Lawrence M. Salinger. Ref HV6768 .E63 2005 v.1-2
Encyclopedia of world terrorism / [edited by Frank Shanty and Raymond Picquet ; John Lalla, documents editor]. Ref HV6431 .E53 2003 v.1-2
Famous American crimes and trials / edited by Frankie Y. Bailey and Steven Chermak. Ref HV9950 .F36 2004 v.1 -5
FBI Bomb Data Center : 1999 bombing incidents. Ref HV8079.B62 F35 2003
Hate crimes / Tom Streissguth. Ref HV6773.52 .S768 2003
Indicators of school crime and safety. Ref HV6250.4.S78 I53 2000
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nternational encyclopedia of the social sciences. David L. Sills, editor. FOLIO H40.A2 I5 v.1-17
- A basic reference work in the social sciences, useful for information on classic theories and theorists.
National criminal justice thesaurus / [prepared for the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, by Aspen Systems Corp.]. Government Documents: J 28.28: 998
- Book contains descriptors or terms used to index literature in the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
School violence : a reference handbook / Deborah L. Kopka. Ref LB3013.3 .K68 1997
Sourcebook of criminal justice statistics. Ref HV7245 .S68 2002
Statistical abstract of the United States / prepared by the chief of the Bureau of
Statistics, Treasury Department. Ref HA202 .S83 2004-05
Talking terrorism : a dictionary of the loaded language of political violence / Philip Herbst. Ref HV6431 .H455 2003
Databases for Journal Articles
- Academic Search Complete [info]
- Article First
- CQ Researcher [info]
- JStor
- Lexis-Nexis Universe
- OHIOLINK Electronic Journal Center
- PAIS (1972-present)
- PsycINFO 1967 to present [info]
- Historical PsycINFO, 1887-1966
- Social Issues Researcher (SIRS)
- Social Studies Collections
- Sociological Abstracts 1963-
- Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI) [info]
- TOPICsearch [info]
- Avalon Project: Historical Law Documents
- Bureau of
Justice Statistics (United States)
- One of the best places for a variety of criminal justice statistics.
- Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice Links (Cecil Greek, Florida State University)
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Provides official crime statistics for the entire United States. Find Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), special studies, reports, and monographs prepared using data mined from the UCR's large database are published each year as well.
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
- This site provides current and historical statistics about the federal prison system. Statistical data on federal prison populations by gender, race, ethnicity, age and other demographic is available.
- International
Crime Victim Survey
- An important source of criminal justice data, the ICVS is conducted every few years with the purpose of providing a more realistic picture of crime in countries by means of household surveys and by standardizing the definitions of crimes.
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
- NCJRS
(National Criminal Justice Reference Service).
- A federally funded resource offering the most comprehensive archive of current and past justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
- National
Victim Center (Statistics)
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Statistics on victims of child abuse, criminal driving, domestic terrorism,
elder abuse, hate crimes, homicide, sexual assault, school violence,
stalking, workplace violence, and other crimes
- Research development and
statistics
- From Home Office in the United Kingdom, it helps in managing research and collecting statistics in a large number of areas including crime, policing, justice, immigration, drugs and race equality.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and
Crime
Searchable site with links to many publications such as the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and World Drug Report.
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