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Criminal Justice Resources

The Clermont College Library webpage can be accessed at:  http://www.ucclermont.edu/library.  
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Articles (Indexes and Databases)

Criminal Justice Abstracts (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=jy14&access=jy14014&db=cja-set-c) Indexes selected literature on crime and delinquency. Coverage is 1968 to the present.

Criminal Justice Periodic Index (http://proxy.libraries.uc.edu/login?url=http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=SU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTExMjE@&clientId=54)
This Index provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Some items are available in full text.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) (http://www.ncjrs.org/search.html) Abstracts of criminal justice publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research, from the early 1970's to the present. Most documents published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies since 1995 are available in full text.

Examples of online journal titles for criminal justice that are searchable by TITLE using the catalog(http://uclid.uc.edu/search/X), using the Electronic Journal Finder (http://aj2vr6xy7z.search.serialssolutions.com), or clicking the titles below:

Child Abuse and Neglect

Child Abuse Review

Computer Fraud and Security

Crime & Delinquency

Crime, Law and Social Change

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Criminal Justice Policy Review

Criminal Law Forum

Homicide Studies

International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

Journal of Research in Crime Delinquency

Police Quarterly

Policing: an International Journal of Police Strategies & Management

Prison Journal, The

Probation Journal

Punishment & Society

Theoretical Criminology

Trauma, Violence & Abuse

Violence Against Women

 

Books, Reference and Media

The Clermont College Library has a variety of reference resources available :

Uniform Crime Reports for the United States (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm)

Handbook of violence REF HM 1116 .H36 2002
Statistical handbook of violence in America

REF HN 90 .V5 S833 1996

The Oxford handbook of criminology REF HV6025 .O87 2002
Encyclopedia of world terrorism REF HV6431 .E53 2003
World of Criminal Justice REF HV7411 .W67 2001
Encyclopedia of capital punishment in the United States      REF HV8964 .P35 2001
Encyclopedia of juvenile violence REF HV9104 .E59 207

Although you may browse the "HV" section of the collection, a more effective way to find resources is to use the online catalog (http://uclid.uc.edu/search/X) and performing a search with SUBJECTS such as:

Criminal justice, administration of
Criminal justice, administration of—United States
Arrest
Corrections
Crime
Criminal procedure
Criminals
Home detention
Imprisonment
Juvenile justice, administration of 
Mass media and criminal justice
Police
Prisons
Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration

If you find no materials on your topic through a SUBJECT search, you can do KEYWORD searches using key concepts.  You may also limit your location to “Clermont”.  However, be aware that this limit would eliminate electronic books and resources from the results.

Web Resources

Spaces are ‘_’s in web addresses.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (http://www.ncjrs.gov/whatsncjrs.html)

National Institute of Justice (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/)

Forensic Science Foundation
(http://www.forensicsciencesfoundation.org/default.htm)

American Society of Criminology
(http://www.asc41.com/

Cybrary: the World’s Criminal Justice Directory (http://talkjustice.com/cybrary.asp)

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (http://www.safeyouth.org)

Nathanson Center for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption (http://www.yorku.ca/nathanson/search.htm)

Google Web Directory: Issues (http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/)

Yahoo's Issues & Causes (http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Issues_and_Causes/)

 

revised 6/2008 - Kathleen Epperson



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