CALIFORNIA
STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO
THE
LIBRARY
CRIMINAL
JUSTICE: SELECTED SOURCES
Compiled by Ben Amata
RESEARCH GUIDES & HANDBOOKS
Library Research
Criminal Justice Research in Libraries and
on the Internet. ref HVZ 5703.4 .C73 N45 1997
Criminal Justice Information: How to Find
It, How to Use It. ref HV 7419.5 .C75 1998
Annual Reviews
Criminal Justice. H 62 .A1 A4
Crime and Justice. HV 6016 .C93 v.1-7,
10, 12,14 Some volumes have individual
titles
Annual Review of Sociology. ref HM 1 .A5 Some issues contain articles on criminology
Research Methodology
Books on criminology research methodology are classed under
the call number HV 7419.5
The Library of Congress Subject Headings
lists subject terms to use in EUREKA:
Criminal
Justice, Administration of Research
Methodology
Criminology Research Methodology
DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS (selected)
5000 Criminal
Definitions, Terms, and Phrases. ref KF 9217 .F7 1968
Concise
Dictionary of Crime and Justice ref HV 6017 .D38 2002
Crime
Dictionary. ref HV 6025 .D43 1988
Criminal
Justice Dictionary. ref HV 6017 .B4 1983
Criminal
Justice Vocabulary. ref HV 6017 .M37
Criminal Law
and Justice Dictionary. ref KF 9217 .F47
1992
Dictionary
of American criminal justice : key terms and major supreme Court cases ref HV 7411 .C53
1998
Dictionary of
American Penology. ref HV 9304 .W54 1996
Dictionary of
Criminal Justice. ref HV 7411
.R87 2003
Dictionary of
Criminal Justice Data Terminology. ref HV 6017 .S4 1982
Dictionary of
Criminal Justice Terms. ref HV 7411 .D53 1998
Encyclopedia
of Crime and Justice. Internet
Encyclopedia
of criminology and deviant behavior ref Hv 6017 E53 2000
Encyclopedia
of murder & violent crime ref HV 6515
.E5323 2003
Encyclopedia
of World Crime: Criminal Justice, Criminology and Law Enforcement.
ref
HV 6017 .N38 1990 v.1-6
Legal Terms
and Concepts in Criminal Justice. ref HV 6017. D3
Police
Dictionary and Encyclopedia. ref HV 7901 .F39 1988
Roxbury Dictionary
of Criminal Justice. ref HV 7411 .C48 1997
Violence
in America:an encyclopedia Hn
90 V5 V5474 1999
World
Encyclopedia of Organized Crime. . HV 6017 .E54
INDEXES AND
ABSTRACTS http://library.csus.edu/databases/
Use to locate journal and magazine articles and books on criminal justice and related subject areas that exist but are necessarily here in the CSUS Library.
Criminal Justice:
Criminal Justice Abstracts.
Criminal Justice Periodical Index.
NCJRS (National Criminal Justice
Retrieval Service).
http://abstractsdb.ncjrs.org/content/AbstractsDB_Search.asp
Social
Sciences:
PsychINFO (literature in psychology).
Sociology Abstracts (literature
in sociology).
Social Sciences Abstracts. (contains
some full-text articles).
General
InfoTrac:Expanded Academic (contains
some full-text articles).
EBSCOhost. (contains some full-text articles).
Articlefirst
Ingenta.
Government
(U.S.)
MarciveWeb.
GPOACCESS
Law
Lexis/Nexis. (contains some full-text articles, laws, and
court cases).
Statistics
American
Statistics Index. Index Area HAZ 7754 .U5 A46
For U.S. Federal statistics
Statistical Reference Index. Index Area HAZ 7554 .U5 S853
Selected state’s statistics and
non-governmental data
Index to International Statistics. Index Area HAZ 7552 .I53
International and regional governmental
organizations
STATISTICAL SOURCES
United States
Uniform Crime Reports for the United
States. ref HV 6787 .A3
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Statistics. ref HV 7248 .S6
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pubalp2.htm
- sd
Crime in America’s Top-Rated Cities: a
Statistical Profile. ref HV 6787 .C74 1996
Compendium
of Federal Justice Statistics.
GovtDoc J/29.20:
California
Dept. of Justice Statistics
http://caag.state.ca.us/cjsc/datatabs.htm
Crime and Delinquency in California. ref HV 6793 .C2 A32
California Criminal Justice Profile. Sacramento County. ref HV 7254 .A2
Homicide in California. ref HV 6533 .C2 A3
California Institution Population Characteristics. ref HV 8324 .A3
International
Statistiques Criminales Internationales = International Crime Statistics. ref HV 6208 .I57
PERIODICALS
Journals, magazines and newsletters are located on the 3
SOUTH arranged alphabetically from 1980 to current with pre-1980 volumes in the
LOWER LEVEL. This is a selected list of journals that the Library subscribes to
in criminal justice. Use EUREKA to
determine if the Library owns a particular title. Use the Journal Locator
List, http://digital.lib.csus.edu/sfx/azlist.php,
to determine if there is access electronically.