SELECTED CRIMINAL JUSTICE
WEB SITES
Research guides are designed to introduce the
researcher to the specific major works in a field. This is an excellent place
to start your research.
Basic legal research for
criminal justice and the social sciences. James R.
Acker, Richard Irving;
Criminal justice
information: how to find it, how to use it. Dennis C. Benamati,
Phylliss A Schulte, ... [et
al.].
Criminal justice research
in libraries and on the Internet. Bonnie R. Nelson; foreword
by Edward Sagarin. [rev. ed.]
Criminal justice research
sources. Robert L. O'Block.
3rd ed.
You may
need to also consult subjected related dictionaries in the fields of sociology,
psychology and law, or even slang dictionaries or thesauri.
Crime dictionary. by Ralph De Sola.
New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, c1982.
REF HV6025.D43
Dictionary of American
criminal justice: key terms and major Supreme Court cases. Dean J. Champion.
Dictionary of American
penology. A Revised and expanded
edition. Vergil L. Williams.
Dictionary of culprits
and criminals. George C. Kohn. 2nd ed.
The encyclopedic
dictionary of criminology. George E. Rush, Sam Torres.
The Roxbury dictionary of
criminal justice : key terms and major court cases.
Dean J. Champion.
The police dictionary and
encyclopedia by John J. Fay. Springfield, Ill., U.S.A. : C.C.
Thomas, c1988. REF HV7901.F39 1988
National criminal justice
thesaurus.
You may
also need to consult specialized encyclopedias in sociology, psychology and
law.
Crime and the justice
system in
The encyclopedia of
American crime. Carl Sifakis. 2nd ed.
Encyclopedia of crime
and justice.Sanford H. Kadish,
editor in chief.
Encyclopedia of crime
& justice. Joshua Dressler, editor in chief. 2nd ed.
Encyclopedia of crime and
punishment: volumes I-IV. edited by David
Levinson. Thousand
Oaks, Ca.: Sage Publications, c2002. REF HV6017.E524
2002 4 v.
Encyclopedia of
criminology and deviant behavior.
Crime and the justice
system in
This is
just a sampling of the specialized encyclopedias we have in our reference
collection on criminal justice.
Encyclopedia of capital punishment in the
Encyclopedia of forensic sciences editor-in- chief, Jay A. Siegel ;
editors, Pekka
J. Saukko, Geoffrey C. Knupfer.
Encyclopedia of organized crime in the
The encyclopedia of serial killers. Michael Newton.
Encyclopedia of women and crime. Nicole Hahn Rafter, editor-in-chief.
See the
libraries homepage for a link to all our paid databases: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/
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be an authenticated user to use many of these resources. To learn more about how to connect from home
please see “How do I “
connect from home on our homepage.
IRIS
Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis)
This large
database includes extensive full text coverage of legal periodicals and law
reviews, federal and state case law Shepard's ® for US Supreme Court cases,
federal and state codes and regulations.
It also provides full ext coverage of current news and business information.
Academic
Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
This is a
multi-disciplinary, full text database of over 3,200 scholarly publications.
(Many are embargoed for the latest year.)
Most journals go back to 1996, although some go back as far as 1984.
Criminal
Justice Abstracts
This
database provides comprehensive coverage of criminal justice, criminology and
related disciplines from international journal articles, books, dissertations,
governmental and non-governmental reports, and unpublished papers form from
1968 to the present. It is updated
annually.
National
Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database (NCJRS) http://abstractsdb.ncjrs.org/content/AbstractsDB_Search.asp
Index to
over 170,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local
government reports,
books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research from 1970’s
to the present. A link to the full-text
document is provided whenever possible.
For documents not available on-line, a link to the publisher's Web site
is provided. You should also check IRIS
to see if we have the document, and again you can order items we do not have
via the Interlibrary loan form in IRIS.
PAIS
International (Public Affairs Information Service) 1972+
Index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social,
and public
policy issues. The database covers selected journal
articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings,
pamphlets, reports, government documents, and microfiche.
SocioFile 1974+
Indexes over 2000 journals, dissertations, abstracts
of conference papers and selected books, and citations of book reviews and other media in sociology and
related disciplines including criminal justice
Other
databases that may be of interest:
Abstracts on criminology and penology Continues: Excerpta
criminologica
GPO REF HV6001.E9 vol. 9-19 1969-1979 LOCATED IN REFERENCE INDEX AREA
Crime and delinquency
literature. [
Criminal justice
abstracts. Hardcopy - REF
HV6001.C67 v.9 – 21, 1977-1991 WITH GAPS; LOCATED IN REFERENCE INDEX
AREA Online version available from our home page.
The Criminal justice
periodical index. [
Criminology &
penology abstracts.
Excerpta criminologica.
City crime rankings : crime in metropolitan
Crime in
Criminal victimization in
the
Electronic access: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm#C
Sourcebook of criminal justice
statistics.
Electronic access: http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
Statistical handbook on violence in
Statistical Universe
This
statistical database unifies indexing previously available through three print
products, the American Statistics Index, the Statistical Reference Index, and
the Index to International Statistics. Full text or web links are provided for some citations,
and the complete text of the Statistical
Abstract of the
Statistics on crime &
punishment : a selection of statistical charts, graphs and tables about crime
and punishment from a variety of published sources with explanatory comments Timothy L. Gall and Daniel M. Lucas, editors
; Peter C. Kratcoski and Lucille Dunn Kratcoski, contributing editors.
Statistics on weapons
& violence : a selection of statistical charts, graphs, and tables about
weapons and violence from a variety of published sources with explanatory comments Timothy L. Gall and Daniel M. Lucas, editors
; Peter C.Kratcoski and Lucille Dunn Kratcoski, contributing editors. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1996.
REF HN90.V5S834 1996
Uniform crime reports for
the
Electronic access: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
The most used source for criminal justice
statistics. Statistics based solely on
crimes reported to the police.
Uniform crime reports, State of
Electronic access: http://www.state.nj.us/lps/njsp/info/ucr2000/
Using government
information sources: electronic and print. Jean L. Sears
and Marilyn K. Moody. 3rd ed.
Alternatives to
institutionalization: a definite bibliography compiled by James R. Brantley; Majorie Kravitz, supervising
editor; National Criminal Justice Reference REF Z7164.C4B73
American prisons: an
annotated bibliography compiled by Elizabeth Huffmaster
McConnell and Laura J. Moriarty.
Crime in
Criminal justice in
Mental health services in
criminal justice system settings: a selectively annotated bibliography,
1970-1997.compiled by Rodney Van Whitlock and Bernard Lubin ;
foreword by
Race, crime and the
criminal justice system : a bibliography. compiled by Joan Nordquist.:
True crime narratives: an
annotated bibliography. Ben Harrison.
Applications in criminal analysis : a sourcebook by Marilyn B. Peterson.
Crime classification
manual [edited by] John E. Douglas ...
[et al.] ; with chapters by John E. Douglas...[et
al.].
Crime in
Congressional Quarterly's
desk reference on American criminal justice. Patricia G. Barnes.
Hate crimes
: a reference handbook. Donald Altschiller. Santa Barbara, Calif. ;
Oxford : ABC-CLIO, c1999. REF HV6773.52.A47
1999
Organized crime : a reference handbook. Patrick J. Ryan. Santa
Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1995. REF HV6441.R9 1995
Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial issues in
crime and criminology.
Domestic violence and
child abuse sourcebook. edited by Helene Henderson.
The FBI
: a comprehensive reference guide [written and] edited by Athan
G Theoharis with Tony G. Poveda,
Susan Rosenfeld, Richard Gid Powers.
Prisons in
SELECTED CRIMINAL JUSTICE
WEB SITES
John Cotton Dana Library
Guide: Criminal Justice- Selected Resources: http://newark.rutgers.edu/~natalieb/cj.htm
Criminal Justice Mega
Sites http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/linklist.htm
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Paul Robeson Library
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