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Subject Guide - Criminal Justice

• Selected Reference Books
• Selected Circulating Books
• Full-Text Books Online
• Print Magazines in Kiefer Library
• Magazine, Journal, & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals
• Other Library Materials
• Searching the Library Catalog
• Selected Web Resources
• Selected Statistical Resources
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Compiled by Ellen Willis, Criminal Justice and Peace Officer Academy LIbrarian Liaison.
Updated 2006.

Selected Reference Books

REF HA 202 .K87 2004 Datapedia of the United States: American history in numbers

REF HV 6017 .E52 2002 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice

REF HV 6017 .S54 2003 Mobspeak: The Dictionary of Crime Terms

REF HV 7411 .C48 2005 American Dictionary of Criminal Justice: Key Terms and Major Court Cases

REF HV 7419.5 .C75 1998 Criminal Justice Information How to Find It, How to Use
It

REF HV 9950 .B53 2002 Introduction to Criminal Justice

REF KF 62 .L38 United States Code

REF KF 154 .W47 1998 West’s Encyclopedia of the American Law

REF KF 156 .B53 2000 Black’s Law Dictionary

REF KF 505 .S83 2002 Family Law

REF KF 4548 .E53 2000 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution

REF KF 8742 .A35 E53 2001 Encyclopedia of the United States Supreme Court

REF KFC 1830 .A 2 Colorado Revised Statutes

Selected Circulating Books

HV 6080 .C734 2001 Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling

HV 6155 .W37 2002 Companions in Crime: The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct

HV 6779 .R67 2005 Historical Atlas of American Crime

HV 6789 .S54 2001 Encyclopedia of American Crime

HV 6799 .H35 2005 Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library

HV 7419 .F54 1996 Comparative Criminal Justice: Traditional and Nontraditional Systems of Law and Control

HV 8501.O94 1995 Oxford History of the Prison

HV 9471 .S54 2003 Encyclopedia of American Prisons

HV 9950 .C74323 2004 Criminal Justice Student Writer's Manual

HV 9950 .C7445 1998 Criminal Justice: Opposing Viewpoints

HV 9950 .G36 2001 Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

KF 1307 .K37 2001 Critical Issues in Police Civil Liability

KF 4757.5 .M4 M49 2004 Mexican Americans and the Law: El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sers Veneido

KF 4765 .M23 2004 Equal Justice in the Balance: America's Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat

KF 8700 . R658 2004 Myth of Moral Justice

KF 9430. P38 2005 Patriot Act

KF 9619. B47 2005 Criminal Law Handbook

KF 9619.8 .P65 B36 2003 A Quick Reference Guide to Contemporary Criminal Procedure for Law Enforcement Officers

KF 9630 .D27 2004 The Intruders: Unreasonable Searches and Seizures from King John to John Ashcroft

LB 3013.32 .W56 2005 Socially Constructed School Violence: Lessons From The Field

Full-Text Books Online

Electronic Crime Scene Investigation

NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as Careers in Criminology, Gangs: A Reference Handbook, Law of Affirmative Action, A Legal Guide for Lesbian and Gay Couples, Legal Research, Nolo’s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law, Our Highest Court, Prisons in America.

Legal Dictionaries Online

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online

Print Magazines in Kiefer Library

Police: The Law Enforcement Magazine
Police: The Professional Voice of Law Enforcement

The Library’s subscriptions to criminal justice journals are primarily in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online databases. (see below)

Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Article Databases or Online Periodicals

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