Library Class Handouts

CRIMINAL JUSTICE INFORMATION SOURCES IN THE PILGRIM LIBRARY (1/07)

Selected Reference/Reserve Books in paper form:
Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior
[Reserve] HV 5804 .E53 2001
Articles on drug issues, such as legalization, gangs and drugs, rehabilitation, drug testing.

Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 2nd ed.
[Reserve] HV 6017 .E52 2002
Background articles intended to help the reader gain an "understanding of criminal conduct, crime prevention, and punishment."

Encyclopedia of Criminal and Deviant Behavior
[Reserve] HV 6017 .E53 2001
Good source for information on criminal psychology.

Research Methods in Criminal Justice & Criminology
[Reserve] HV 6024.5 .H33 2000
Consult this if you need help devising a survey, doing a case study, or other research in the field.

Bloodletters and Badmen
[Reserve] HV 6785 .N37 1995
Biographies of famous criminals from US history. Good source for serial killers.

Encyclopedia of American Crime
[Reserve] HV 6789 .S54 2001
Good source for information about historical crime in the U.S.

Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
[Reserve] HV 7921 .E53 2005
Covers all facets of law enforcement, from the local level to international.

Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities
[Reserve] HV 9471 .E693 2005
Covers prisons and punishment, with a US focus.


PAPER SOURCES WITH STATISTICAL INFORMATION IN CJ
Statistical Abstracts of the US
[Reserve] HA 202 [year]
Summary of statistics on the United States. Issued by the government.

Sourcebook on Criminal Justice Statistics
Reference HV 7245 .N37b
Published yearly. Contains "nationwide data of interest to the criminal justice community."

Crime in the United States (formerly called Uniform Crime Reports)
Reference HV 6787 .A3
Published yearly. Compilation of data voluntarily reported by city, county, and state law enforcement agencies.

Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin
Reference HV 9278 .B84
In loose-leaf notebooks; bulletins grouped by subject.


SOME LEGAL REFERENCE BOOKS
West's Encyclopedia of American Law
Reference KF 154 .W47 1997
Written for non-lawyers, so it's easy to understand. Good place to go for definitions, summaries of major court cases, or practically anything else in the legal field.

Encyclopedia of Gun Control & Gun Rights
Reference KF 3941 .A68 U88 2000
Concentrates on gun control in the US today, but does include historical and some international perspectives.

Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
Reference KF 4548 .E53 2000
Contains articles about important cases and topics the Court has dealt with, such as body searches, capital punishment, civil liberties, etc.

Ohio Revised Code
Reference KFO 30 1994 .A2
The paper source for Ohio laws. For online access to Ohio and other state codes, see Lexis/Nexis database.


PAPER INDEXES TO PERIODICAL ARTICLES
Criminal Justice Abstracts (3rd index table)
Indexes journal articles, books, and government documents. Includes abstracts (short summaries) of what the book or article is about. Look up your topic in the subject index in the back of the issue, and then find the numbered citation in the front of the issue.


ONLINE DATABASES
OhioLink databases - Go to www.defiance.edu, click on "Library", and then, "OhioLink Databases." Searchable from off-campus, if you are a registered library patron in good standing. Defiance College doesn't subscribe to every OhioLink database, but we get most of them. The most useful for CJ are:

• Electronic Journal Center - full-text articles from over 6,000 scholarly journals
  
• Lexis/Nexis - good source for legal articles. Contains both newspaper accounts and articles from legal journals. Also a source for business, medical and general news information.
  
• SocIndex - good source of articles, conference papers, books on sociological topics, including CJ. Covers some journals back to 1895.
  
• Sociological Abstracts - good place to find citations to journal articles in the CJ field, which is one of the social sciences
  
• Academic Search Premier - a general database that covers popular magazines and some scholarly journals
  
• Social Science Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) - an index to cited references in scholarly sociological journals. Useful to find how authoritative an author is by checking how many times his/her work has been cited
• SIRS Researcher - covers popular magazines and newspaper articles
  
• Business Source Premier - mainly a business database, but covers CJ business-related topics as jail privatization, corporate crime, etc.
  
• PsychInfo - good scholarly source for psychological aspects of a topic, such as police stress, the minds of serial killers, effect of discrimination on people, etc.
  
• America's Newspapers --totally full-text newspaper articles. Wonderful non-scholarly source for CJ topics.
  
  
  

CJ PERIODICALS TO WHICH THE PILGRIM LIBRARY CURRENTLY SUBSCRIBES (in paper form):

• *Corrections today
  
• +Crime & delinquency
  
• *Criminal justice ethics
  
• *Criminology and public policy
  
• =Family court review
  
• *FBI law enforcement bulletin
  
• *Federal probation
  
• Journal of crime and justice
  
• *Journal of criminal justice education
  
• *Journal of criminal law & criminology
  
• Journal of ethnicity in criminal justice
  
• Journal of forensic sciences
  
• Journal of offender rehabilitation
  
• +Journal of research in crime & delinquency
  
• Journal of security administration
  
• *Justice quarterly
  
• Ohio State Bar Association report
  
• Police chief
  
• *Social justice

* means articles from this journal also available electronically in an EBSCO database
+ means articles from this journal also available electronically via the Electronic Journal Center (EJC)
= means articles from this journal are also available electronically via Lexis/Nexis

A SAMPLING OF CJ JOURNALS AVAILABLE ONLY IN THE EJC (ELECTRONIC JOURNAL CENTER)

Behavioral sciences and the law
Child abuse and neglect
Crime, law, and social change
Criminal justice review
Criminal justice
Criminal law forum
Critical criminology
European journal of crime, criminal law, and criminal justice
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
International criminal justice review
International criminal law review
Law and human behavior
Legal and criminological psychology
Social justice research

Access the EJC via the online databases using the “find it” link when you retrieve articles, or go to the direct link on the Pilgrim Library webpage.

CONTACT A LIBRARIAN IF YOU NEED HELP!
Main desk phone: 419.783.2481
Barb Sedlock, 783.2487, bsedlock@defiance.edu
Mary Bishop, 783.2483, mbishop@defiance.edu
Jeannie Von Deylen, 783.2485, jvondeylen@defiance.edu