Criminal Justice Research Guide: Reference Sources

Criminal Justice Research Guide
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Reference

Reference These materials are kept on the first floor of Pollak Library, North Wing. They consist of dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, almanacs, directories, and more. They do not check out and are used primarily as a quick look-up of facts. These sources can also be especially useful as a quick way to get basic information on a topic. A small selection of the recent Reference books which might be of interest to the Criminal Justice student are listed below.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Research Guides

Statistical Information

Vocational Guidance

Biographical Information

ť	Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
REF HV7411 C48 2005	The American Dictionary of Criminal Justice: Key Terms and Major Court Cases by Dean John Champion
REF HV 6017 S35	The Concise Encyclopedia of Crime and Criminals by Harold Scott, 1961 Despite its age this book is still useful because of its detailed and extensive entries on many aspects of criminal Justice. The biographical articles often contain pictures. Entries for major cases are also included.
REF HV 7411 R87 2000	The Dictionary of Criminal Justice by George E. Rush, 2000 This dictionary contains words, phrases, people, acts, and associations. included a few flow included a flowchart of the sequence of events through the court system. Also major Supreme Court Cases relating to Criminal Justice are listed by subject and indexed by title.
REF HV 9471 E425	Encyclopedia of American Prisons ed. Marilyn D. McShane, 1996 This one volume encyclopedia is especially useful for its detailed entries which can include some theoretical background on the topic. All entries have a bibliography and some of the entries include a list of law cases.
REF HV 8694 G76 1998	Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment, ed. by Mark Grossmann, 1998. This one volume encyclopedia includes a introduction that is useful for its overview of capital punishment brief articles on a wide range of people and laws. An historical timeline is included. the greatest focus is on issues related to the United States but the encyclopedia does include international information.
Ref HV 6017 E52	Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 2002 This four volume set includes extensive articles on broad topics in Criminal Justice. It would be especially helpful to a student who needed some theoretical background on a topic. A bibliography is included for each article. Also available online as an ebook.
REF HV6017 E524	Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, editor David Levinson, 2002 vol 1-4
REF KF 3941 A68 U88 2000	Encyclopedia of Gun Control and Gun Rights, By Glenn Utter, 2000. This one volume encyclopedia attempts to deal in a balanced manner with a highly controversial topic. The book covers legislation, court cases, organizations, associations, and individuals who have affected the controversy. The appendix includes constitutional provisions dealing with the right to keep and bear arms for all fifty states.
REF HV7921 E53 v. 1-3	Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, 2005. Larry E. Sullivan, editor-in-chief This multi-volume set includes information for both local and national law enforcement issues.
REF HN 90 V5 V5474	Violence in America, ed. Ronald Gottesman, 1999. The three volume set includes articles on types of violence, criminals, laws, criminologists, the coverage in the mass media, racial issues, and more. There is generally a detailed bibliography included. The appendix includes organizations, publications and recommended web sites that deal with the topic of violence.
Ref 6768 E63	Encyclopedia Of White-Collar And Corporate Crime, editor general editor, Lawrence M. Salinger, 2005. vol 1-2
Ref HV6403 B87	Environmental Crime : a Sourcebook / Ronald G. Burns and Michael J. Lynch, 2004.
Ref KF9223. A68 F35 2005	Prentice Hall's dictionary of American criminal justice, criminology, and criminal law by David N. Falcone
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ť	Research Guides
REF K 36 M47	Author's Guide to Journals in Law, Criminal Justice and Criminology ed. by Roy M. Mersky, 1979. This guide is intended to assist the prospective author in deciding on an appropriate journal to which to submit his/her articles by providing as much information as possible about the journals and their policies.
REFDESK HV 7419.5 C75 1998	Criminal Justice Information: How to Find It, How to Use It by Dennis C. Benamati and others. This books leads the researcher to the wide range of materials, agencies, journals, statistics, government documents, laws and more that are available for research and practicable purposes in the field of Criminal Justice. This includes a chapter devoted to sources available through the Internet.
Ref HV 9950 C74323 1999	Criminal Justice Students Writers Manual by William A. Johnson, Jr. 1999. This book will give the student direction in writing a research paper, covering such topics as format, style, writing competently and how to cite sources. The book also gives direction in the research process with specific advice on writing book reviews, agency case studies, policy analysis papers, and legal case briefs.
REF RA 1053 F67 1999	Forensic Medicine Sourcebook, Annemarie S. Muth, ed. 1999. This book provides basic information on forensic medicine topics such as crime scene investigation, evidence, expert testimony, computer-aided identification, DNA profiling, accident reconstruction, autopsies, ballistics, drugs and explosives detection, latent fingerprints, product tampering and more. It also contains statistical data, terminology and sources of additional information.
Ref HV 6469 U5 K663	Hate Crimes: Contemporary World Issues by Donald Altschiller, 1999 This book acts as an introduction to the topic of hate crimes for the students who is doing research in this area. It contains an explanation of hate crimes, targeted groups, history of, chronology, laws and legislation, biographical sketches, statistics, bibliography of all types of sources, and a listing of World Wide Web sites.
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ť	*Statistical Information*
Ref HV 6787 C58	City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America
Ref HV 6787 C745	Crime in America's Top-Rated Cities: A Statistical Profile, This book includes 20 years of statistical crime information for 75 American cities. It contains information on types of crime, crime rates, hate crimes, illegal drugs, correctional facilities, curfews, inmates, law enforcement personnel, anti-crime programs and much more.
Doc/US J 1.14/7 Current year at DocDesk	*Crime in the United States: Uniform Crime Reports* Criminal Justice statistics of all types are published in this annual set of books. The library owns this set of books back to 1962. The statistics are based on the Uniform Crime Reports contributed by law enforcement agencies. This source is now also available on the Internet: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Ref HV 6787 C77	*Crime State Ranking: Crime in the 50 United States* This source contains crime statistics such as murder, crime rates, change in crime rates, recidivism, prison and jail populations, executions, arrests by type and many others. All statistics are ranked by all fifty states.
Doc/US J 29.9 /6 Current year at DocDesk	Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, Bureau of Justice This statistical book is a collection of statistics from a wide range of organizations, agencies and public opinion polls. Statistics cover topics such as characteristics of the criminal justice system, public attitudes, offences, persons arrested, the correctional system. The library own back to 1973. This source is also available on the Internet:
DocDesk Y3.SE5: 1	Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics This book contains descriptive statistics on the application of the federal sentencing guidelines and provides selected district, circuit, and national sentencing data.
Doc/US C 3.134: Current year at RefDesk	*Statistical Abstract of the United States* This is a statistical source which covers a very wide range of subjects. Because of this wide coverage, it is a good place to start looking for statistics. The sources are listed and can lead the user to further statistics. This book comes out annually and the library owns back to 1878. It is also available through the Internet.
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ť	*Vocational Guidance*
Ref JK 716 P58 1999	Careers in Government by Mary Elizabeth Pitz, 1999. This book offers advice and job hunting strategies. Included are job descriptions, salary ranges, working conditions, required qualifications and an academic major listing of agencies and departments who are interested in individuals with that academic background.
Ref HV9950 .A54 2003	Criminal justice and criminology : a career guide to local, state, federal, and academic positions by James F. Anderson, Nancie J. Mangels, and Laronistine Dyson, 2003.
Ref HF 5382.7 R557 2005	The Guide to Internet Job Searching, 2005. There are many opportunities for job searching on the Internet. This book gives advice on how to proceed with the job search and the web addresses for job sites, employers and other useful pages. The Criminal Justice major might be interested in the chapter on "Government, Public Policy and Public Service."
Ref HV 9950 T38	Jumpstarting Your Career: An Internship Guide for Criminal Justice by Dorothy Taylor, 1999. This is essentially a handbook for students who are planning an internship or for professionals who would like to start an internship program. It does not list individual internships available.
Ref HV 8143 S86	Opportunities in Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Careers by James Stinchcomb, 2003.
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ť	*Biographical Information*
Computer Database	Biography and Genealogy Master Index This is a database which will indicate which Reference sources contain biographical entries for the individual which the student is searching. This database is so extensive that it helps to know the individual's full name and birth/death dates.
Computer Database	*Biography Index* This is a database which provides citations on biographical information. It indexes both articles and books.
Ref HV 7911 A1 A94	Cops, Crooks and Criminologists: An International Biographical Dictionary of Law Enforcement by Alan Axelrod, 1996. This is an encyclopedic dictionary of major and significant figures, living and dead, who have shaped the history of law enforcement. The emphasis is strongly American with a few international entries. There is a strong historical emphasis and the earliest entry is from the 16th century.
Ref HV 6245 K64	Dictionary of Culprits and Criminals by George C. Kohn, 1986 This book contains concise bibliographic sketches with the full name and nickname of the culprits or criminals. American figures predominate the book through there are some international people.
Ref HV 6595 N49	The Encyclopedia of Kidnappings, 2002, by Michael Newton. This encyclopedia is made up entirely of short biographies, with details of the crime, of both kidnap victims and the perpetrators, a few pictures are included.

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