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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.”