Law Enforcement and
Criminal Justice Resources

Law Enforcement and Criminology Books

Law Enforcement and Criminology books are generally found in the HV Library of Congress Classification section. These books are located on the first floor of the tower in the library or in the folio room on the first floor if the books are oversized. The HV classification is comprised of the following subdivisions:

HV 6001-7220.5 Criminology
HV 6250-6250.4 Victimology
HV 6251-6773 Crimes and offenses
HV 6774-7220.5 Crimes and criminal classes
HV 7231-9920.5 Penology
HV 7428 Social Work with delinquents and criminals
HV 7431 Prevention of crime
HV 7551-8280.8 Police
HV 8301-9025 Prisons
HV 9051-9230.7 Juvenile Offender
HV 9261-9430.7 Reformation and reclamation of adult prisoners

Reference Sources

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

American Dictionary of Criminal Justice/ Dean J Champion. 2nd ed. Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing, 2001.
[Ref. HV 7411 .C48 2001]

Black’s Law Dictionary. 8th ed. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 2004.
[Ref. KF 156 .B53 2004]

Burton’s Legal Thesaurus / William C. Burton. 3rd ed. New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1998.
[Ref. KF 156 .B856 1998]

COP Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime / Tom Philbin. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.
[Ref. HV 7901 .P55 1996]

Crime Dictionary. rev. and expanded ed. New York: Facts On File, c1988.
[Ref. HV 6025 .D43 1988]

A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage / Bryan A. Garner. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
[Ref. KF 156 .G367 1995]

Encyclopedia of American Prisons. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
[Ref. HV 9471 .E425 1996]

Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. 2nd Ed. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2002.
[Ref. HV 6017 .E52 2002]

Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 2001.
[Ref. HV 5804 .E53 2001]

The Encyclopedia of Police Science. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989.
[Ref. HV 7901 .E53 1989]

Encyclopedia of Terrorism. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003.
[Ref. HV 6431 .K883 2003]

Law.Com Dictionary.
[http://dictionary.law.com]

Mellinkoff’s Dictionary of American Legal Usage / by David Mellinkoff. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1992.
[Ref. KF 156 .M45 1992]

West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2nd ed. Detroit: Thomson gale, 2005.
[Ref. KF 154 .W47 2005]
American Law Yearbook 1998: An Annual Source Published by Gale Research as a Supplement to West’s Encyclopedia of American Law. Detroit: Gale, 1999.
[KF 154 .W47 A62 1998]

General

Access Indiana: Indiana State Home Page.
[http://www.state.in.us]

American Bar Association Web Site.
[http://www.abanet.org]

CALEA Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies.
[http://www.calea.org]

FindLaw.
[http://www.findlaw.com]

Justice Technology Information.
[http://www.nlectc.org]

Law Enforcement Officers General Schedule and Locality Pay Tables.
[http://www.opm.gov/oca/05tables/indexLEO.asp]

Law Enforcement Wellness Association.
[http://www.cophealth.com/articles.html]

National Center for Victims of Crime.
[http://www.ncvc.org]

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS).
[http://www.ncjrs.org]
NCJRS is a federally sponsored information clearinghouse for people around the country and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database.
[http://www.ncjrs.org/search.html]

National Institute of Justice.
[http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij]

National White Collar Crime Center.
[http://www.nw3c.org/index.html]

National Youth Gang Center.
[http://www.iir.com/nygc]

Office for Victims of Crime.
[http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc]

Terrorism Law & Policy.
[http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/terrorism.htm]

Terrorism Research Center.
[http://www.terrorism.com]

THOMAS Legislative Information on the Internet.
[http://thomas.loc.gov]

Westlaw
A computer-assisted legal research service which supplies access to a large quantity of information, including statutes, codes, rules, regulations, judicial, and administrative decisions, legal articles and periodicals, and other secondary material. Information is organized into databases.

WESTLAW Database Directory. Eagan, MN: West Publishing, 2003.
[Ref. KF 242 .A1 W46 2003]
WESTLAW Reference Manual. 5th ed. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1993.
[Ref. KF 242 .A1 D53 1993]

Handbooks and Other References

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law Review Association, 1999.
[Ref. KF 245 .U53 1999]

Criminal Law / by Wayne R. LaFave and Austin W. Scott, Jr. 2nd. ed. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1986.
[Ref. KF 9219 .L38 1986]

Criminal Procedure and the Constitution. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1998.
[Ref. KF 9618 .C74 1998]

The FBI: A Comprehensive Reference Guide. Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1999.
[Ref. HV 8144 .F43 T48 1999]

Fundamentals of Legal Research / by J. Myron Jacobstein and Roy M. Mersky. Mineola, NY: Foundation Press, 1987.
[KF 240 .J3 1987]

Handbook of Forensic Services. Washington, D.C.: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1999.
[http://www.fbi.gov/programs/lab/handbook/intro.htm]

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation / by Peter W. Martin. Cornell Law School, 2003
[http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/]

Legal Research: How To Find And Understand The Law. 7th ed. / by Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind. Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1999.
[KF 240 .E35 1999]

Legal Research in a Nutshell / by Morris L. Cohen and Kent C. Olson. 6th edition. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1996.
[Ref KF 240 .C54 1996]

Police Procedural: A Writer's Guide to the Police and How They Work/ by Russell L. Bintliff. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 1993.
[Ref. HV 8073 .B53 1993]

Practical Homicide Investigation Checklist and Field Guide / Vernon J. Geberth. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1997.
[Ref. HV 8079 .H6 G399 1997]

Report to the Nation on Crime and Justice / U.S. Department of Justice. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, 1988.
[Folio HV 6787 .R471 1988]

Law Enforcement Agencies

Chicago Police Department.
[http://www.ci.chi.il.us/CommunityPolicing]

Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration.
[http://www.usdoj.gov/dea]

Department of the Treasury, Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.
[http://www.atf.gov]

Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
[http://www.fincen.gov/index.html]

Federal Bureau of Investigation.
[http://www.fbi.gov]

Illinois State Police.
[http://www.isp.state.il.us]

Indiana State Police.
[http://www.state.in.us/isp]

IRS Criminal Investigation Division.
[http://www.treas.gov/irs/ci]

United Nations Office on drugs and Crime.
[http://www.unodc.org/unodc/site_map.html]

U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
[http://www.customs.ustreas.gov//xp/cgov/enforcement/]

U.S. Department of Justice.
[http://www.usdoj.gov]

U.S. Marshals Service.
[http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals]

U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
[http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/]

U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
[http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect]

U.S. Secret Service.
[http://www.ustreas.gov/usss]

Statistics

Bureau of Justice Statistics.
[http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/welcome.html]

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

LakeNET: The information connection for Lake County, Indiana.
[http://www.lakenetnwi.net]

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data.
[http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/index.html]

Social Statistics Briefing Room: Crime (Latest national statistical releases).
[http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/crime.html]

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1999.
[Ref. HV 7245 .N37]
[http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook]

State and Local Law Enforcement Statistics.
[http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/sandlle.htm]

Statistics on Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Use. New York: Gale Research, 1996.
[Ref. HV 5292 .S73 1996]

Statistical Abstracts of the United States. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2003.
[Ref. HA 202. S8]
[http://www.census.gov/statab/www]

Statistical Handbook on Violence in America/ by Adam Dobrin and others. Phoenix, Oryx Press, 1996.
[Ref. HN 90 .V5 S833 1996]

Statistics on Weapons & Violence. New York: Gale Research, 1996.
[Ref. HN 90 .V5 S834 1996]

Uniform Crime Reports.
[http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm]
In paper format: Crime in the United States: Uniform Crime Reports. Washington, D.C: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2002 .
[Ref. HV 6787 .A3 2002]

Indexes to Journals

Indexes to Law Enforcement and Criminology Journals

Criminal Justice Periodical Index.
Available on ProQuest.
Provides cover-to-cover access for 45 criminal justice journals and abstracts over 100 add ional titles.

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books.
Available on EBSCOHost.
Indexes over 620 journals, yearbooks, law reviews, and bar association publications.

Sociological Abstracts.
Available on FirstSearch.
Abstracts some 3,000 journals covering sociology and related disciplines including criminology, law, and penology.

Indexes to Related Articles about Law Enforcement and Criminology

Academic Search Premier.
Available on EBSCOHost.
Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals and full text for over1,000 journals. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.

GPO Monthly Catalog.
Available on FirstSearch.
[http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cgp/index.html]
Indexes materials published by the U.S. Government Printing Office since July 1976.

Inspire.
Inspire is provided by the Indiana State Legislature to Indiana Residents through school, public, and academic library internet connections or at home internet connections purchased through registered Indiana Internet Service Providers. It includes indexes such as Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier.

MasterFile Premier.
Available on EBSCOHost.
Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,100 periodicals, plus searchable full text for more than 1,770 active periodicals.

ProQuest.
ProQuest is a subscription vendor and provides access to Criminal Justice Periodical Index.

PsycFIRST.
Available on FirstSearch.
Most recent three years from the PsycINFO (Psychological Abstracts) database.

Readers Guide to Periodical Literature.
[Bibl. AI 3 .R48]
Core list of popular magazines from 1983 to the present.