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Criminal Justice Subject Guide
Contents
Scope and Introduction
Getting Started
Reference Resources
Research Guides
Electronic Databases & Indexes
Journal Titles
Related Subject Guides
Criminology & Criminal Justice Related Web Sites

Reference
Resources
Atlases
Bibliographies
Dictionaries
Encyclopedias
Handbooks & Manuals
Indexes
Statistics
Atlases:
An atlas is a book containing maps and geographical
information.
Atlas of Crime:
Mapping the Criminal Landscape.
Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 2000.
This atlas explores and explains how modern
mapping techniques and software can be used to reveal important and useful
patterns in the location and distribution of
different types of crimes.
FSU Reference
HV6783 .A85 2000
Rickie Sanders
Growing up in America: An Atlas of Youth in
the USA.
New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA,
c1998.
This atlas contains a section on children and
the criminal justice system.
FSU Reference
HB1323.C52 U658 1998
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Bibliographies:
A bibliography is
a list of sources (books, articles, and other information sources) of
information for a specific subject or author.
Jean L. Sears
Using Government information Sources:
Electronic and Print. 3rd ed.
Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, c2001.
FSU Main Stacks
Z1223.Z7 S4 2001
Elizabeth Huffmaster McConnell
American Prisons: An Annotated
Bibliography.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.
FSU Reference
Z5703.4 .P75 M33 1999
Lee E. Ross
African American Criminologists, 1970-1996: An
Annotated Bibliography.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.
FSU Main Stacks
Z5703 .R668 1998
John D. Hewitt
Criminal Justice in America, 1959-1984: An
Annotated Bibliography.
New York: Garland Pub., 1985.
FSU Reference
HV9950 .H48 1985
Deborah W. Denno
Biological, Psychological, and
Environmental Factors in Delinquency and Mental Disorder: A
Interdisciplinary Bibliography.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1985.
FSU Reference
HV6080 .D46 1985
Bruce L. Davis
Criminological
Bibliographies: Uniform Citations to Bibliographies, Indexes, and Review
Articles of the Literature of Crime Study in the United States.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1978
FSU Reference
Z5703.A1 D38
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Dictionaries:
Dictionaries, at
their simplest, define words and terms. Dictionaries can be used to
confirm spelling, definition, and pronunciation, to find out how words are
used, locate synonyms and antonyms, and trace the origin of words.
Mark S. Davis
The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, c2002.
FSU Reference
HV6017 .D38 2002
John N. Ferdico.
Criminal Law and Justice Dictionary.
St. Paul: West Pub. Co., c1992.
FSU Main Stacks
KF9217 .F47 1992
Dean J. Champion
Dictionary of American Criminal Justice: Key
Terms and Major Supreme Court Cases.
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.
FSU Reference
HV7411 .C53 1998
Vergil L. Williams.
Dictionary of American Penology.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.
FSU Reference
HV9304 .W54 1996
Dictionary of Crime: Criminal Justice,
Criminology & Law Enforcement.
New York : Paragon House, 1992.
FSU Reference
HV6017 .E5425 1992
Dictionary of Criminal Justice Terms
Lanham, Md: American Correctional Association,
c1998.
FSU Reference
HV7411 .D53 1998
A Dictionary of Criminology.
Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.
FSU Reference
HV6949.E5 D5 1983
Dean J Champion
The Roxbury Dictionary of Criminal Justice:
Key Terms and Major Court Cases.
Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Pub. Co., c1997.
FSU Reference
HV7411 .C48 1997
Eugene McLaughlin and John Muncie
The Sage Dictionary of Criminology.
London: SAGE, 2001.
FSU Reference
HV12 .S34 2001
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Encyclopedias:
Encyclopedias are
written by experts and provide a comprehensive summary of a topic. They
are useful for providing facts and giving a broad survey of a topic.
Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, c2005.
FSU Reference
HV7921 .E53 2005 v.1-3
Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, c2002.
FSU Reference
HV6017 .E524 2002 v.1-4
Crime and the Justice System in America: An
Encyclopedia
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997
FSU Reference
HV6789 .C6884 1997
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Handbooks & Manuals:
Handbooks treat one
broad subject in brief, or give a brief survey of a subject
Manuals tell you
how to do something, such as how something operates, or provides
descriptions of the inner workings of an organization.
Jennifer L. Durham.
Crime in America: A Reference Handbook.
Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, c1996.
FSU Reference
HV6787 .D87 1996
Michael Tonry (ed.)
The Handbook of Crime and Punishment.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
FSU Main Stacks
HV6789 .H25 1998
M.A.
DuPont-Morales, Michael K. Hooper, Judy H. Schmidt (eds.)
Handbook of Criminal Justice Administration.
New York : Marcel Dekker, c2001.
FSU Main Stacks
HV7419 .H37 2001
Mike
McConville and Geoffrey Wilson (eds.)
The Handbook of the Criminal Justice Process.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
FSU Main Stacks
HV9960.G7 H36 2002
Susan O. White (ed.)
Handbook of Youth and Justice.
New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
c2001.
FSU Reference
HV9069 .H312 2001
Rudy Flora
How to Work With Sex Offenders: A Handbook for
Criminal Justice, human Services, and Mental Health Professionals.
New York: Haworth Clinical Practice Press,
c2001.
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HV6556 .F58 2001
Mike
Maguire, Rod Morgan, and Robert Reiner (eds.)
The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. 3rd ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
1 copy being processed for FSU.
Mike
Maguire, Rod Morgan, and Robert Reiner (eds.)
The
Oxford Handbook of Criminology. 2nd ed.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997
FSU Reference
HV6025 .O87 1997
William A. Johnson, Jr. [et al.]
The Criminal Justice Student Writer’s Manual.
2nd ed.
Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall,
c2002.
FSU Reference
HV9950 .C74323 2002
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Indexes:
Indexes list
citations to periodical articles, books, and proceedings, and tell you
where the citations can be found.
The Criminal
Justice Periodical Index.
FSU Periodicals-Indexes
Z5118.C9 C74 1982
Criminal justice abstracts
FSU Periodicals
Social sciences index
FSU Periodicals
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Statistics
Crime in the United States
Washington: Bureau of Investigation, U.S.
Dept. of Justice: U.S. G.P.O., 1930-
FSU Reference
HV6787 .A3
2003
Graeme Newman (ed.)
Global Report on Crime and Justice.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
FSU Main Stacks
HV7431 .G445 1999
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