Criminal+Justice

**Black’s Law Dictionary, 7th ed. edited by Bryan A. Garner and Henry Campbell Black. St. Paul: West Group, 1999. ISBN: 0314241302**. Definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern. Includes multiple meanings and examples of word usages with references to cases and laws. **Dictionary of Criminal Justice by George E. Rush. Guilford, CT: Dushkin Publishing Group, 2000. ISBN: 0070307091**. Dictionary of terms on law enforcement, courts, probation, parole, corrections, and related subjects. This dictionary focuses on terms commonly used in criminal justice practice. **National Criminal Justice Thesaurus. U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, National Criminal Justice Reference Service. ISSN: 01986546**. Contains terms used to index literature in the NCJRS database. Source for finding synonyms and broader, narrower and related terms in the criminal justice field. **Criminal Justice Information: How to Find It, How to Use It by Dennis C. Benamati, et al. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1998. ISBN: 089774957X**. Advice on how to do research, establish connections, find information in the library, locate government and international information, as well as Web sources of interest. **Criminal Justice Research Sources, 4th ed. by Quint Thurman, Lee E. Parker, and Robert L. O’Block. Cincinnati: Anderson, 2000. ISBN: 0870848607.** Overview of criminal justice research sources with chapters on the research process, collecting data, indexing services, computerized literature searches, reference sources, NCJRS, statistical research, legal research, and Internet research. **American Justice edited by Joseph M. Bessette. 3 vols. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Salem Press, 1996. ISBN: 0893567612**. Examine the legal system in the United States including the civil and criminal court systems, issues of constitutional law, legal history, and social justice. **Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, 2nd ed. edited by Joshua Dressler. 4 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. ISBN: 002865319X**. Includes information on the causes of crime, criminal behavior, crime prevention, institutions of criminal justice. **Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior edited by Clifton D. Bryant. 4 vols. Philadelphia: Brunner/Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 1560327723**. Covers topics related to criminology, deviant behavior, and other unusual sociological phenomena. Includes definition of each term, concise practical information, tables and diagrams, and a bibliography. **Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict edited by Lester Kurtz. 3 vols. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999. ISBN: 012227010X.** Includes studies on “violence, peace, and conflict” from various points of view including criminology, cultural studies, economic, historical, political, biomedical, psychological, sociological, and public policy. **Violence in America edited by Ronald Gottesman and Richard M. Brown. 3 vols. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999. ISBN: 0684804875**. Covers many aspects of violence in the United States—physical, emotional, and psychological, as well as its impact on the environment and property. **Crime State Rankings edited by Kathleen O. Morgan and Scott Morgan edited by Kathleen O. Morgan. Lawrence, KS: Morgan Quitno, 1994–. Annual. ISSN: 10774408**. Offers tables of crime data for U.S. states. Number of crimes, crime rates, and percent change are shown. **Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics by Michael J. Hindelang. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1973–. Annual. ISSN: 03603431**. Tables of data on criminal justice and related topics collected from governmental and private agencies. Also available in electronic version and on the Internet at **www.albany.edu/sourcebook/.** **Uniform Crime Reports, 1930–1997 (1998 to present available www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office. ISSN: 00827592.** National crime statistics for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management, including offenses cleared, persons arrested, homicide patterns, and law enforcement personnel. Also available on the Internet at [|www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm]. corrections— United States —periodicals crime—government policy— United States crime—research— United States —statistics crime— United States criminal justice—administration of— United States criminal justice—administration of—vocational guidance— United States criminal justice—administration of— United States —periodicals criminal statistics— United States —atlases law enforcement—vocational guidance— United States police—vocational guidance— United States prisoners— United States —statistics—periodicals
 * CRIMINAL JUSTICE: A RESEARCH GUIDE **
 * SOURCES OF DEFINITIONS **
 * GUIDES TO THE LITERATURE **
 * ENCYCLOPEDIAS **
 * STATISTICS **
 * WEB SITES **
 * NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) Abstracts Database **** [|www.ncjrs.org/search.html] **
 * United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network **** [|www.uncjin.org] **
 * SUBJECT HEADINGS **