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Criminal Justice

Background Information

Crime and the Justice System in America: An Encyclopedia
Location: Downtown Library, Reference HV6789 .C6884 1997

Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
Location: Downtown Library, Reference HV6027 .E52 2002

Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior
Location: Downtown Library HV6017 .E53 2001 (4 volumes)

Historical Dictionary of Law Enforcement
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HV7903 .R67 2001

The Oxford Handbook of Criminology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HV6025 .O87 1997
Downtown Library HV6025 .O87 2002

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Finding Definitions

Black's Law Dictionary
Location: JPL Reference Stacks & Downtown Library KF156 .B53

Cop Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime
Location: Downtown Library Stacks HV7901 .P55 1996

Dictionary of American Penology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HV9304 .W54 1996

The Roxbury Dictionary of Criminal Justice: Key Terms and Major Court Cases
Location: Downtown Library, Reference HV7411 .C48 1997

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Books

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Databases & Article Searching

Several databases offer full text or full image versions of criminal justice periodicals. Some, such as Criminal Justice Periodicals, do not always provide access to current issues.

Academic Search Complete (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text for 3,400 publications, including Criminology and Public Policy, Legal and Criminological Psychology, Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling, Federal Probation, Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, Crime and Delinquency, and International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Full Text/Full Image

Academic Universe (UTSA subscription)
Provides abstracts and/or full text to nearly 6,000 titles relating primarily to news, business, and legal information. Includes U. S. and foreign newspapers, wire services, government and political news, company profiles and financial reports, industry and market news, federal and state case law, law reviews, accounting and tax information, medical news and abstracts, and state and country profiles. Updated continuously. Source List available online. Full Text

Criminal Justice Abstracts (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts books, reports, unpublished papers and journal articles in criminology and related disciplines from 1968 to present.  The database covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing.  Includes extensive coverage of books as well as reports from government and non government agencies. Citations Only

Criminal Justice Periodicals (UTSA subscription)
This database provides full text/ full image access to nearly 60 criminal justice journals and newsletters and article abstracts for an additional 140 periodicals. Full Text & Full Image

Criminology: A Sage Full-Text Collection (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text/full-image access to a number of journals published by Sage on topics in criminology, including criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence.among others. Coverage for some journals is from 1982 to the present. Updated regularly. Full Text & Full Image

FORENSICnetBASE / LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE (UTSA subscription)
Provides full-text access to over 150 forensic science and criminal justice reference works in PDF format published by CRC Press. Note: In order to view entire e-books, Adobe Acrobat must be set to open PDF files within your browser. Date Coverage: 1997 to the present. Updated monthly. Full Text

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
Free Website: http://www.ncjrs.org/
The database is free via the web and abstracts 160,000 journal articles. Materials date from the early 1970's to the present. Approximately 7,000 references are full-text. These are mainly government publications, dating back to 1966. Full Text

PAIS International (UTSA subscription)
Indexes and abstracts articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical information in a variety of subjects including, agriculture, business, education, finance, health, political science, and the social sciences. Corresponds to the last ten years of citations from the print indexes, PAIS Bulletin, PAIS Foreign Language Index, and PAIS International in Print. Updated monthly. Citations Only

ProQuest (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to journal articles in a number of databases across all subject areas, with particular strengths in business and the social sciences. Also includes 9 major national newspapers, including Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post. Complete content of the following databases is included: ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry, Accounting & Tax, Alt-Press Watch, Criminal Justice Periodicals, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, National Newspapers, and ProQuest Research Library. More than 5,500 titles are indexed and abstracted from at least 1971 to the present. Full text and/or images are available for more than 2,000 titles. Full Text & Full Image

Sociological Abstracts (UTSA subscription)
Focuses on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Indexes from 1963 and abstracts from 1974, drawing from more than 2,500 journals as well as conference papers, books, and dissertations. Citations Only

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Finding Statistics

Bureau of Justice Statistics
Free Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
The Bureau of Justice Statistics collects, analyzes, publishes and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government and is the primary source for the United States' criminal justice statistics.

Death Penalty for Female Offenders, January 1, 1973, through June 30, 2007
Free Website: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/FemDeathJune2007.pdf

Death Penalty Statistics
Free Website: http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/death/stats.html
"The principal sources of death penalty statistics, with links to specific resources at each site, are included here. These sites provide detailed information on executions, death row populations, jurisdictions authorizing capital punishment, capital offenses, Supreme Court death penalty cases, changes in state statutes, and other information. Detailed information about executions, including the names of prisoners executed in the U.S., offense information, race of offender and victim, state of execution, and method ofexecution can also be found through sites listed here."

Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
Free Website: http://fjsrc.urban.org
The Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center maintains the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database, which contains information about suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system.

FedStats
Free Website: http://www.fedstats.gov/
Bills itself as "The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies."

Justice Information Center (NCJRS)
Free Website: http://www.ncjrs.org/
This site contains statistical information on a variety of criminal justice related topics.Click the link "View All Subjects," then click "Statistics."

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Free Website: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/
Research data available from ICPSR, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and National Institute of Justice.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HV7245 .N37b 1973-1986; 1988-2002
Location: JPL Multimedia HV7245 .N37b 1994-2002 (cumulative CD)
Free Website: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS3082
The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 1,000 tables. The site is updated regularly as new statistics become available. The Sourcebook is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Location: JPL Reference Desk, JPL Reference Stacks, Downtown Library HA202 .B8 (current)
JPL Stacks HA202 .B8 1946 - 2005
Microfiche Cabinet: HA202.B8 1878 - 1955
Free Website: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
See also: Statistical Universe (UTSA subscription)

Statistical Universe (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to statistical information produced by the U.S. Government. Includes indexing and abstracting from 1973 to the present. Significant full text content from 1995 to the present including Statistical Abstract of the United States.

Statistics and Research Sources (United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network)
Free Website: http://www.uncjin.org/Statistics/statistics.html

Uniform Crime Reports for the United States
Location: JPL Reference Stacks HV6787 .A3 (2004 - see web for most recent editions).
Previous years (1959-1991; 1993-2003) in JPL Stacks Folio HV6787.A3
Free via web: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS3082 (1995 - current)
The Uniform Crime Reporting Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI began collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the United States, and Hate Crime Statistics, are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States.

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State and Local Resources

Bexar County Sheriff's Office
Free Website: http://www.co.bexar.tx.us/sheriff/
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office web site contains links to employment, law enforcement and traffic information throughout the Bexar County area.  This site also provides links to a sex offender database, missing persons and most wanted web page.

Death Row Information
Free Website: http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm
Texas death row statistics from 1923 to the present.

State and Local Law Enforcement Statistics
Free Website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/sandlle.htm
From the U.S. Department Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics related links to state and local law enforcement statistics.

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Further Research

Criminal Justice Links
Free Website: http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/p/cjl-main.php
This site is maintained by Cecil Greek, Florida State University and includes Web links from all aspects of the criminal justice field.

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Free Website: http://www.fbi.gov/
The official site of the FBI including links to employment, top most wanted fugitives, major investigations, programs and initiatives.

Justice Information Center: A Service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Free Website: http://www.ncjrs.org/
Provides access to full text government documents and pointers to other Web sites in corrections, courts, crime prevention, criminal justice statistics, drugs and crime, international criminal justice, juvenile justice, law enforcement, research and evaluation, and victims.

Criminal Justice Mega-Sites: The Best Links on the Web
Free Website: http://faculty.ncwc.edu/Mstevens/415/linklist.htm
This site incorporates links for criminology and criminal justice websites produced by professors from various academic institutions in the U.S. This site also includes links to official statistics and data, police resources, legal and law related resources, corrections and prison related resources, criminal justice related listservs, and professional associations.

Vera Institute of Justice
Free Website: http://www.vera.org/
Compiled by Vera Institute of Justice a non-profit organization.