Course Guides: Criminal Justice

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• Printable Guides & Handouts
• Suggested Databases
• Selected E-Books
• Locations of Criminal Justice Resources in the Library
• Selected Books in the Library
• Selected Journals, Magazines, & Newspapers
• Online Resources
• Research Guides: includes citation help

PRINTABLE GUIDES & HANDOUTS:

• Course Guide Handout-Criminal Justice (PDF)

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SUGGESTED DATABASES:

• Academic Search Complete - Provides full-text articles from more than 5,500 multi-disciplinary, scholarly journals and publications.
• JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive - Provides a multi-disciplinary archive of scholarly journals and other resources across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
• Legal Collection - Provides full-text articles from nearly 250 scholarly law journals pertaining to current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.
• LexisNexis - Provides full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers, magazines, and reference sources, including legal and law resources.
• Oxford Reference Online - Provides full-text access to many subject dictionaries and encyclopedias, maps, timelines, and more. Uses a unique login; see RPCC Library Services under RPCC Support in Moodle, or stop by the Library for more information.
• PsycINFO - Provides 2.4 million citations and summaries of psychology-related journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports.
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - Provides full-text coverage of over 575 journals and publications pertaining to behavioral science fields.
• SocINDEX with Full Text - Provides Sociology articles and information with over 425 full-text journals, over 720 full-text books, and over 6,700 conference papers.

Please note that when accessing the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to login.

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SELECTED E-BOOKS:

eBook Collection from EBSCOhost is our largest provider of ebooks (electronic copies of printed books PDF format), available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. eBook Collection has an easy-to-use search interface. You will be prompted to login with your 12-digit Library User ID to access these e-books from off-campus. Please see our Tutorials on eBook Collection from EBSCOhost for more information.

• Battleground: Criminal Justice, 2007, edited by Gregg Barak; discusses issues in criminal justice.
• Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems: Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, 2000, by Obi N. Ignatius Ebbe.
• The Constitution and Criminal Procedure : First Principles, 1997, by Akhil Reed Amar.
• Forensic Science : Modern Methods of Solving Crime, 2007, by Max M. Houck.
• Negotiating Responsibility in the Criminal Justice System, 1998, by Jack B. Kamerman.

Visit our eBook Collections for links to eBook Collection from EBSCOhost and other e-book collections. Please note that books that are still protected by copyright may not be available online in full-text from the free sources.

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LOCATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY:

SUBJECT-related topics can be found in resources located in these Library of Congress call number ranges:

• HV6002 to HV7220.5 - Criminology.
• HV7231 to HV9960 - Criminal justice administration
• HV7551 to HV8280.7 - Police. Detectives.
• KF - Law of the United States (Federal)
• KF379 to KF382 - Jurisprudences and philosophy of American law.
• KF9201 to KF9461 - Criminal law.
• KF9601 to KF9760 - Criminal procedure.
• KFL1 to KFL599 - Law. United States. Louisiana.

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SELECTED BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY:

• The American Dictionary of Criminal Justice : Key Terms and Major Court Cases, 2nd Edition, 2001.
  Call number: HV 7411 .C48 2001
• Criminal Investigations : A Scenario-Based Text for Police Recruits and Officers , 2002.
  Call number: HV 8073 .M33 2002
• Criminal Procedure for the Criminal Justice Professional, 8th Edition, 2002.
  Call number: KF 9619 .F47 2002
• From Law to Order : The Theory and Practice of Law and Justice, 2000.
  Call number: KF 380 .W35 2000

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SELECTED JOURNALS, MAGAZINES, & NEWSPAPERS:

Print periodicals are located in C-119 (LRC)

• Social Problems

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ONLINE RESOURCES:

• Bureau of Justice Statistics, "the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics," a division of the U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.
• crimetheory.com: glossary, the glossary of crimetheory.com, "An educational resource for the learning, researching, and teaching of theoretical criminology."
• Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice, includes statistical data, information on grants and programs, and other criminal justice issues in the state.
• Louisiana State Police provides information on the agency, statistics, training and more.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service, "a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide," administered by the Office of Justice Programs, U. S. Department of Justice.

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