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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 Distric

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