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Subject Guide - Criminal Justice
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
Academic
Search Premier | Off-Campus
Access
EBSCOHost | Off-Campus
Access
Academic
Search Premier and EBSCOHost give
access to many full-text criminal justice periodicals such as
American Criminal Law Review, American Journal of Family Law,
Corrections Today, Crime and Delinquency, Crime Control Digest,
Criminal Justice Ethics.
Facts
on File | Off-Campus
Access
Court Review
LexisNexis | Off-Campus
Access provides Federal and state case law, codes, regulations,
legal news, law reviews, international legal information, and Shepard's® citations
for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789.
National Criminal Justice
Reference Service
Western Criminology
Review
Other Library
Materials
Video/DVD
KF4558 14th C37 2003 DVD Cases in Controversy: The 14th Amendment
KF 3827.E87 L35 2002 VHS Landmark Trials of Modern Ethics
Searching the Library Catalog
The above titles are just a few of the resources available for you.
The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides
access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the
following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in
the library catalog:
criminal justice, mafia, organized crime, prisons, white collar
crime, forensic sciences, criminology, murder, crime, juvenile delinquency
Selected Web Resources
Almanac
of Policy Issues: Criminal Justice
Center on Juvenile
and Criminal Justice
Colorado
Bar Association-- Educational Materials
Colorado General Assembly
COURTTV, Forensics
in the Classroom
Cybrary’s
Top 100 Criminal Justice Picks
Documents
in Law, History and Diplomacy
Federal Bureau of Prisons
FindLaw
High Tech Criminal Justice
International Law Library
Legal Information Institute
MADD Stats and Resources
National Criminal Justice Reference
Service
Search:
National Consortium for Justice Information & Statistics
United States
Code
Selected Statistical
Resources
American
Bar Association-- Juvenile Justice Center
Bureau
of Justice Statistics
Federal Justice Statistics
Program
National Archive of Criminal
Justice Data
Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics
Statistical
Briefing Book
White House
Social Statistics Briefing Room
Selected Online Images and
Other Media
Crime
Scene and Evidence Photography
Famous Cases Court
TV
Forensic
and Police Psychology PowerPoint Slides
How
to Do Legal Research
Pictures
of Famous Trials
Other Library Catalogs
Colorado State University
Loveland Public Library
Prospector: Colorado Unified
Catalog
University of Northern College Library
Catalog
Weld Library District
Windsor-Severance
Library District
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