PATHFINDER School of Criminal Justice

Browsing location for books in Criminal Justice related subject areas of the library.          

                                                                         Library of Congress Call #              

                                      Corrections                               HV 9469           
                                      Forensics & Criminology           HV 6001-7220
                                      Medical Jurisprudence              RA 1001-1171
                                      Homeland Security                    HV 6432
                                      Terrorism                                   HV 6430
                                      Justice Administration               HV 7551
                                      Law Enforcement                      HV 7936-8025        
                                      Psychology                                BF                      

EJC – Electronic Journal Center @ OhioLink

This resource is accessed through the OhioLINK home page which is a link on the Pfeiffer Library home page.  The center has links to over 6,000 journals which are available in full text from several databases to which OhioLINK member libraries subscribe.   Your Tiffin University ID card, activated for use in the library, allows your use of these materials.

Books

* indicates the book is available at Pfeiffer Library.

*Dictionary of American Criminal Justice:  Key Terms and Major Supreme Court Cases by Dean J. Champion.  Chicago:  Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998. REF HV7411 .C53  1998

*Law Dictionary.  by Henry Campbell Black.  St. Paul, MN:  West Publishing Co., 1968.  Revised 4th Ed by the publisher’s editorial staff.  REF KF156 .B53  1968

*Guide to Information Sources in the Forensic Sciences by Cynthia Holt. Westport, CT:  Libraries Unlimited, 2006.  Compilation of sources in both print and non-print in all areas of Forensic work.  Z7503.4  .C728 H65 2006

*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.  REF  HV 6017 .E52  2002

*Crime State Rankings edited by Kathleen O. Morgan and Scott Morgan.  Lawrence, KS: Morgan Quinto, 1994-.  Annual.  ISSN: 10774408

Offers table of crime data for U.S. states.  Number of crimes, crime rates, and percent changes are shown.  REF HV6787 .C77

*Forensic Psychology; Emerging Topics and Expanding Roles.  Edited by Alan M. Goldstein. New York: John Wiley and Sons. Inc., 2007.  REF RA 1148  .F5572 2007

*Encyclopedia of Terrorism by Harvey W. Kushner.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  SAGE Publications, 2003.  REF HV 6431  .K883  2003

*Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement in 3 vols. /edited by Marie Rosen. Editor-in-chief Larry E. Sullivan.  Thousand Oaks, CA:  SAGE Publications, 2005.  REF HV 7921  .E53  2005

*The Grey House Homeland Security Directory. 4th Edition / edited by Richard Gottlieb.  Millerton, NY:  Grey House Publishing, 2007.  REF  HV  6432  .G748  2007

*Handbook of Forensic Psychology; Resource for Mental Health & Legal Professionals. / edited by William T. O’Donohue, Eric R. Levensky.  San Diego, CA: Elsevier Academic Press, 2004.  Ref  RA 1148  .H362 2004

*Handbook of Psychology, Vol. 8, Clinical Psychology. [Electronic resource} George Stricker, Thomas A Widiger, volume editors; Irving B Weiner, editor-in-chief.  New York: Wiley, 2003.   (Hot link to OhioLINK page)

* indicates that the book is available at Pfeiffer Library.
 

Web Sites

Legal Research
www.virtualchase.com
This site teaches legal professionals how to do research.  It is divided into several sections with tips on how to find information quickly and easily.

NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) Abstracts Database
www.ncjrs.org/search.html
Contains documents, citations, and abstracts for journal articles, books, reports, hearings, studies, bibliographies, and statistical reports.

Find Law
http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/oh/state.html
Excellent source for information about Ohio from the Governor’s office, to the state legislature, to the court system and the Ohio Revised Code.  Can easily link to the same information from other states.

FBI
http://www.fbi.gov/
Clicking on the Web Site tab at the top of the page connects to a page of links to all areas of the FBI.

Unitied States Department of Justice
http://usdoj.gov/
The official homepage of the United States Department of Justice.  A click on the site map at the page bottom produces a list of links to all aspects of the work on the department.

Social Science Research Network
http://www.ssrn.com
An e-Library with an abstract database of more than150,000 current and soon to be published papers and an Electronic Paper Collection of more than 119,000 full text documents in the area of social science research.

Freedom of Information Act – CIA Electronic Reading Room
http://www.foia.cia.gov/default.asp
A site provided by the CIA to provide the public with access to CIA information and to provide electronic access to declassified documents.

Anthropology Tutorials
http://anthro.palomar.edu/tutorials/
This site is a guide to topics in introductory-level biological and cultural anthropology.  Useful to anyone seeking a good overview of the topic.

PsychScholar:  A Collection of Web Resources
http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/
This site is a portal to a wealth of online psychology resources. 

Federal Judicial Center
http://www.fjc.gov
Principal research and education support office for the US courts.  This site gives access to much of the FJC’s research work.   Includes publications, videos, jucicial history and educational programs and materials.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
http://www.dhs.gov
This site describes the mission and organizational structure; it provides links to numerous DHS documents.    Rich information resource for the department’s current and past activities as well as public interest information relevant to national security.

Chemical & Engineering News
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/

 

Databases – available through OhioLINK

http://www.ohiolink.edu

Academic Search Premier
http://www.ohiolink.edu
Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.

Lexis Nexis
http://www.ohiolink.edu
Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information.

PsycINFO
http://www.ohiolink.edu
Index and abstracts of articles, books, chapters, and dissertations in psychology.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
http://www.ohiolink.edu
Index, abstracts, and full text covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Sociological Abstracts
http://www.ohiolink.edu
Index and abstracts to articles in sociology, 1963-2005.

SocINDEX
http://www.ohiolink.edu
Index, abstracts, and full text for articles and other publications in sociology.
 

Subject Headings

Corrections – United States – periodicals
Crime-government policy- United States
Crime-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