Find Resources by SubjectSubject Guide - Peace Officer Academy
Compiled by Ellen Willis, Criminal Justice and Peace Officer Academy LIbrarian Liaison. Updated 2006. Selected Reference BooksREF 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 BooksHN 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 OnlineNetLibrary Exam, Prisons
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Print Magazines in Kiefer LibraryFBI Law Enforcement Bulletin 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 PeriodicalsAcademic
Search Premier | 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 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 MaterialsPamphlet File
Video/DVD
Searching the Library CatalogThe 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 ResourcesBest
Information on the Net, Gangs and Juvenile Crime
Selected Statistical ResourcesBureau of Justice Statistics
Selected Online Images and Other MediaCop Car; American Police Car Photo
Collection Other Library CatalogsColorado State
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