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This guide is designed to give students a starting point to begin their research.

Reference Books
TitleCall Number
American Dictionary of Criminal Justice R 364.03 CHAMP/A
Criminal Justice Information: How to Find It, How to Use It R 364.072 CRIMIN
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice R 364 ENCYCL
Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities R 365.973 ENCYCL
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court R 347.732 LANDMA
Prisons in America R 365.973 RAFTE/P
Call Number Areas to Browse
Call Number AreaSubject Area
300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology
340 Law
360 Social problems and social services
Subject Headings to Browse
Crime-United States Criminal Justice-Administration of Criminal Psychology
Criminal Law Criminology Law Enforcement-United States
Periodical Databases (online, searchable)
Academic Search Premier ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals SIRS America's Newspapers
Periodicals (print, in the library)
TitleCall Number
Newsweek 051 N558 Periodical
Social Problems 301 S678 Periodical
U. S. News and World Report 051 U841 Periodical
USA Today 051 U842 Periodical
Time 051 T583 Periodical
Audio-Visual Materials
TitleCall Number
Criminals in Cyberspace 364.168 CRIMIN Media Coll.
Law and Order 342.73 LAW Media Coll.
Quiet Rage: Stanford Prison Experiment 365.019 QUIET Media Coll.
World Wide Web Sites
Bureau of Justice Statistics http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Librarians Index to the Internet http://lii.org
National Criminal Justice Reference Service http://www.ncjrs.org/
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online, 31st Ed. http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
FBI Uniform Crime Reports http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm

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