Find Resources by Subject
Subject Guide - Peace Officer Academy
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 .S 54 2003 Mobspeak:The Dictionary of Crime Terms
REF HV 6779 .H35 Crime and Punishment in America Reference Library
REF HV 6779 .R67 2005 Historical Atlas of American Crime
REF HV 6789 .S54 2001 Encyclopedia of American Crime
REF HV 7419.5 .C75 1998 Criminal Justice Information How to Find
It, How to Use It
REF HV 9471 .S54 2003 Encyclopedia of American Prisons
REF HV 9950 2002 Introduction to Criminal Justice
REF HV 9950 .B86 2004 Profiling and Criminal Justice in America
REF KF 9619.8 .P65 B36 2003 A Quick Reference Guide to Contemporary
Criminal Procedure for Law Enforcement Officers
Selected Circulating Books
HN 90.M26 .F54 1995 Beggars and Thieves: Lives of Urban Street Criminals
HV 6080 .C734 2001 Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology:
A Collaborative Approach to Effective Profiling
HV 6439 .U5 2002 Gang Nation: Delinquent Citizens in Puerto Rican,
Chicano, and Chicana Narratives
HV 6439 .U7 N432 2004 Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street
politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang
HV 7911 .A1 F58 1995 Breaking & Entering: Women Cops Talk About
Life in the Ultimate Men's Club
HV 8142 .T45 2004 Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion
HV 8148 .N5 2002 NYPD: Stories of Survival from the World’s
Toughest Beat
HV 8501 .O94 1995 Oxford History of the Prison
HV 9471 .A49 1997 America's Prisons: Opposing Viewpoints
JK 468 .I6 K37 2005 Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of
Global Eavesdropping
KF 1307 .K37 200 Critical Issues in Police Civil Liability
Full-Text Books Online
NetLibrary
This database includes access to such titles as Careers in Criminology,
CyberShock: Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Encyclopedia
of American Prisons, Gangs: A Reference Handbook, Mafia Encyclopedia,
Police Officer.First Response to Victims of Crime
Exam, Prisons
in America--
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online
Print Magazines in Kiefer Library
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Police: The Law Enforcement Magazine
Police Chief: The Professional
Voice of Law Enforcement
The Library’s subscriptions to magazines that are of interest
to our Peace Officer students 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 peace officer periodicals such as Corrections
Today, Crime and Delinquency, Crime Control Digest, Criminal
Behavior & Mental Health, eWeek, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
Juvenile Justice Digest, Law Technology.
Facts
on File | Off-Campus
Access
Forensic
Science Communications Journal
Journal of Homeland
Security
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.
Other Library
Materials
Pamphlet File
Pamphlet File – Crime, Colorado Arrests, Weld County, Colorado:
1994 – 2002
Pamphlet File – Crime, Colorado Colorado Department of Corrections
Youthful Offender System
Pamphlet File - Gangs, Colorado A Safe City, Basic Awareness & Strategies
for Parents
Video/DVD
MDSV VIDEOCASSETTE # 2-F04 Crime Scene Investigation
VHS TA 656 .W49
2002 Why the Towers Fell
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 investigations, criminals, criminology, deviant behavior,
firearms, forensic sciences, gangs, juvenile delinquents, law enforcement,
mafia, murder, organized crime, police, prisons, white collar crime.
Selected Web Resources
Best
Information on the Net, Gangs and Juvenile Crime
Corrections Connection
COURTTV,
Forensics in the Classroom
Cyber
Crime
Cyber Criminals Most Wanted
Electronic
Crime Scene Investigation
FBI, Reports and Publications
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Institute for Law
and Justice
Into the Abyss:
Resource on Gangs
National Criminal Justice Reference
Service
Police Driving
Police Executive
Research Forum
Racial
Profiling
Search
Terrorism Research Center
Virtual Gumshoe
Selected Statistical
Resources
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Crime in
Colorado
Crime in the United States
National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control
White House
Social Statistics Briefing Room
Selected Online Images and
Other Media
Cop Car; American Police Car Photo
Collection
Crime
Scene and Evidence Photography
Firearms
Identification
Forensic
and Police Psychology PowerPoint Slide
L.A.P.D.
Blues
Online
NewsHour: Racial Profiling
Police
Driving, Course Diagrams
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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