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Criminal Justice

Printable version (doc./pdf.)

Reference Books (Cannot be checked out.)

Ref HV 6017 .C76 1994

Crimes & Punishment: The Illustrated Crime Encyclopedia

28 vols., see vol. 28 for index

Ref HV 6017 .D38 2002

The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice

Ref HV 6017 .E52 2002

Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice

4 vols., see vol. 4 for index

Ref HV 6017 .E53 2001

Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior

4 vols., see vol. 4 for index

REF HV 6441 .D48 2005

The Encyclopedia of International Organized Crime

Ref HV 6446 .K43 2000

Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States

Ref HV 6768 .E63 2005

Encyclopedia of White Collar and Corporate Crime

Ref HV 6773 .N48 2004

The Encyclopedia of High-Tech Crime & Crime Fighting

Ref HV 6787.C57 2005

City Crime Rankings

Ref HV 6789 .S54 2001

The Encyclopedia of American Crime

2 vols., see vol. 2 for index

Ref HV 7293 .A38a 1997

Crime in Texas

Ref HV 7411 .C48 2001

The American Dictionary of Criminal Justice: Key Terms and Major Court Cases

Ref HV 7411 .C74 2002

Criminal Justice and Criminology: Concepts and Terms

Ref HV 7411 .W67 2002

World of Criminal Justice

2 vols., see vol. 2 for index

RE HV 7921. E53 2005

Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement (3 vols.)

Ref HV 7936 .C88 P47 1995

Crime Analysis – with Medical, Forensic, Political, & Social Involvement

Ref HV 8073 .B425 2004

Encyclopedia of Forensic Science

Ref HV 8073 .T55 2006

Forensic Science: An Encyclopedia of History, Methods and Techniques

Ref HV 8694 .G76 1998

Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment

Ref HV 8694 .P35 2001

Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment In the United States

Ref HV 9069 .H312 2001

Handbook of Youth and Justice

Ref HV 9104 .E58 2003

Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice

Ref HV 9304 .W54 1996

Dictionary of American Penology

Ref HV 9471 .S54 2003

Encyclopedia of American Prisons

Ref HV 9950 .A54 2003

Criminal Justice and Criminology

Ref HV 9950 .B364 2001

Congressional Quarterly’s Desk Reference on American Criminal Justice

Ref HV 9955.T4 A53 2005

Crime in Texas: Your Complete Guide to the Criminal Justice System

Ref KF 154 .A44 1996

American Justice

3 vols., see vol. 3 for index

Ref KF 154 .W47 1998

West’s Encyclopedia of American Law

12 vols., see vol. 12 for index

Ref KF 220 .G74 1994

Great American Trials

Ref KF 8741 .A1 P7

Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases

Ref KF 9214.5 .C75 2006

Criminal Justice (3 vols.)

Ref KF 9218 .B69 1999

Criminal Law & Procedures: Cases & Materials

Ref KF 9218 .W4 1998

Criminal Law: Cases, Comment, Questions

Ref KF 9227 .C2 G47 2005

Death Penalty on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws and Documents

Ref KF 9227 .C2 L38 1998

Death Penalty Cases: Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment

Ref KF 9618 .W4 1998

Criminal Process: Cases, Comment, Questions

 

Circulating Bookswill be found in the same “HV” and “KF” sections as above but in the circulating and area. Some titles include:

 

HV 6018 .C43 2006                       Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology

HV 6046 .I86 2007                        It’s a Crime: Women and Justice

HV 6046 .C745 2006                     Criminalizing Women

HV 9104 .M43 2006                      Criminal Justice and Moral Issues

HV 9104 .M94 2005                      Boys Among Men: Trying and Sentencing Juveniles as Adults

HV 9950. M32 2006                      Race to Incarcerate

HV 9950 .R434 2006                     Prison Race

HV 9950 .R8727 2006                   Protecting Our Own: Race, Crime and African-Americans

KF 373 .F37 A3 2006                    Indefensible: One Lawyer’s Journey into the Inferno of American Justice

KF 8210 .C7 N38 2006                  Native Americans and the Criminal Justice System                  

 

Journals & Magazines (Arranged on shelves alphabetically by title.)

Corrections Today

Crime & Delinquency

Criminal Justice& Behavior

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Journal of Criminal Justice Education

Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology

Justice Quarterly

Law and Order

National Law Journal

Women & Criminal Justice


 

Videos (2 week check out.)

HV 6074 .F556 2001

Fingerprinting and Ballistics

HV 6089 .Q54 1991

Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment

HV 8023 .B4 1999

Beyond the Blue: Life as a Female Police Officer

HV 8073 .F67 1993

Forensic Science

HV 8073 .M4335 1997

Medical Detectives: Explorations in Forensic Science

HV 8073 .R43 2004

Real Science. Incriminating Evidence

HV 8073.5 .I58 2001

Interrogation

HV 8141 .R33 2000

Americain Black and White: Racial Profiling and Law Enforcement

HV 8699 .U5 D427 2001

Death Row, U.S.A.

HV 9069 .K53 1999

Kids Behind Bars

HV 9104 .K537 1994

Kids and Crime

HV 9471 .L44 1999

Life Behind Bars

RA 1057.55 H867 2001

DNA

 

Website Collections (From the Library’s Web page, click “Great Web Sites,” then scroll down the page.)

Criminal Justice              Government/Law          

Online databases

At the library’s web page http://www.lonestar.edu/library and click on “Article Databases.” Proceed to “Databases by Subject” to select databases dealing with criminal justice issues under “political sciences.”

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