Criminal Justice
FIND BOOKS
URSUS, available on Mariner, is the University of Maine System’s shared online book catalog.
FIND ARTICLES
CJPI -- Criminal Justice Periodicals Index [Mariner] Full-text articles and index for the field.
Academic Search Premier [Mariner] Full-text articles and index to scholarly and popular periodicals.
New York Times Historical [Mariner] America’s newspaper of record. Exact reproductions of entire issues of The New York Times from its first issue in 1851 up to the last two to three years. For current coverage, use LexisNexis Academic, ProQuest Newspapers, or the New York Times link.
New York Times [Mariner] Index to and full text coverage from 1999 to the present.
LexisNexis Academic [Mariner] Complete articles and indexing to many US and international newspapers.
ProQuest Newspapers [Mariner] Like LexisNexis Academic: full-text articles and indexing to US and international newspapers.
New York Times Index 1952-2002 [Index Tables] NYTis available full-text online 1851+.
New York Times Article Archive [Mariner] Indexing for The New York Times from 1851 to the present.
PAIS [Mariner] Public and social policy including criminal justice.
Social Sciences Index 1974-2003 [Index tables]
Sociological Abstracts [Mariner] Comprehensive and international index that covers literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences including criminology.
Contemporary Women’s Issues [Mariner] Broad range of issues related to women including women and criminal justice.
JSTOR [Mariner] Digital archive of core scholarly journals in arts, humanities, general science and social
sciences. Historical collection covering complete run of each journal from its inception to generally
2-5 years ago.
GENERAL REFERENCE SOURCES
Criminal Justice Information: How to Find It, How to Use It [Ref HV 7419.5 C75]
Criminal Justice Research in Libraries and on the Internet [Ref HV 7419.5 .N45]
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice [Ref HV 6017 E52]
Crime and the Justice System in America: An Encyclopedia [Ref HV 6789 C6884]
Encyclopedia of American Crime [Ref HV 6789 .S54]
Encyclopedia of Police Science [Ref HV 7901 .E53]
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science [REF HV 8073 .B425]
Encyclopedia of American Prisons [Ref HV 9471 .S54 2003]
Encyclopedia of American Prisons [Ref HV 9471 E425 1996]
American Prisons: An Annotated Bibliography [Ref HV 9469 .M34]
Atlas of Crime: Mapping the Criminal Landscape [Ref HV 6783 .A85]
Encyclopedia of Women and Crime [Ref HV 6046.E56]
Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States [Ref HV 8694 .P35]
Encyclopedia of Sociology [Ref HM 17 .E5]
Dictionary of American Criminal Justice [Ref HV 7411 .C53]
Criminal Justice Dictionary [Ref HV 6017 .B4]
Dictionary of American Penology [Ref HV 9304 W54]
Forensic Science: An Illustrated Dictionary [Ref HV 8073.B677]
The Facts on File Dictionary of Forensic Science [Ref HV 8073 B426]
FBI Most Wanted [Ref HV 6785 .N48]
Maine Law Enforcement Officer's Manual [Ref KF 9620 Z99 M2]
Maine State Police Crime Lab Physical Evidence Handbook [Ref HV 7571 .M2 .P52]
Oxford Reference Online [Mariner] Reference sources and dictionaries.
Short Guide to Writing About Social Science [Ref/Reserve H 91 .C78 2002]
LAW
LexisNexis Academic [Mariner] Full-text of federal and state court cases and laws, legal news and law reviews.
Maine Revised Statutes Annotated [Ref KFM 30 A24/LexisNexis Academic]
West’s Encyclopedia of American Law (12 v./supp.) [Ref KF 156 G77]
Historic U.S. Court Cases 1690-1990 [Ref KF 385 .A4 J64]
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court [Ref KF 4549 L37+]
STATISTICS [Also see Web Sources below]
Crime State Rankings [Ref HV 6787 .C75]
Statistical Abstract of the United States [Ref HA 202 A3]
Statistical Handbook on Violence in America [Ref HN 90 V5 S833]
Hate Crime Statistics [Ref HV 6787 H38]
Crime in Maine [Ref HV 6793 .M3 C74]
WEB SOURCES
See Katz Library Internet Resources for a list of Web directories @ http://www.uma.edu/libraries.html.
Administration of Justice Research Guide http://library.gmu.edu/resources/socsci/criminal.html
Mega Links in Criminal Justice http://faculty.ncwc.edu/toconnor/
National Criminal Justice Reference Service http://www.ncjrs.org/
Federal Bureau of Investigation http://www.fbi.gov/
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/ Access to 550+ data collections.
Bureau of Justice Statistics http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Uniform Crime Report (UCR) http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm FBI national crime data. For UCR at the county level, see http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/crime/.
Social Statistics Briefing Room http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/crime.html FBI statistics.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/