Course Guides: Criminal Justice

Courses listed in the General Catalog:

• CRJU 1010: Introduction to Criminal Justice
• CRJU 2010: Introduction to Police, Courts, and Correction
• CRJU 2020: The American Judicial Process
• CRJU 2040: Contemporary Law Enforcement
• CRJU 2050: The Corrections Process
• CRJU 2060: Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
• CRJU 2070: Psychology of Criminal Justice
• CRJU 2300: Introduction to Law Enforcement
• CRJU 2310: Criminal Law
• CRJU 2320: Criminal Investigation

Jump to...

• Printable Guides & Handouts
• Suggested Databases
• Selected E-Book Sources
• Locations of Criminal Justice Resources in the Library
• Selected Books in the Library
• Online Resources
• Research Guides: includes citation help

PRINTABLE GUIDES & HANDOUTS:

• Course Guide Handout-Criminal Justice (PDF)

Back to top

SUGGESTED DATABASES:

• Academic Search Complete - Provides full-text articles from more than 5,500 multi-disciplinary, scholarly journals and publications.
• JSTOR - The Scholarly Journal Archive - Provides a multi-disciplinary archive of scholarly journals and other resources across the humanities, social sciences and sciences.
• Legal Collection - Provides full-text articles from nearly 250 scholarly law journals pertaining to current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world.
• LexisNexis - Provides full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers, magazines, and reference sources, including legal and law resources.

Please note that when accessing the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to login.

Back to top

SELECTED E-BOOK SOURCES:

• NetLibrary - Provides access to over 59,000 ebooks (electronic copies of printed books, often in PDF format) 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. NetLibrary has an easy to use search interface. (You will need a NetLibrary account to access these e-books from off-campus. Please see the tutorial, Accessing & Using NetLibrary for more information.)



• Battleground: Criminal Justice, 2007, edited by Gregg Barak; discusses issues in criminal justice.
• Comparative and International Criminal Justice Systems: Policing, Judiciary, and Corrections, 2000, by Obi N. Ignatius Ebbe.
• The Constitution and Criminal Procedure : First Principles, 1997, by Akhil Reed Amar.
• Forensic Science : Modern Methods of Solving Crime, 2007, by Max M. Houck.
• Negotiating Responsibility in the Criminal Justice System, 1998, by Jack B. Kamerman.


• Google Book Search - Many full-text ebooks in PDF format, free and available to download. Google Book Search has an easy search interface with option to see only full-text titles.

Back to top

LOCATIONS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESOURCES IN THE LIBRARY:

SUBJECT-related topics can be found in resources located in these Library of Congress call number ranges:

• HV6002 to HV7220.5 - Criminology.
• HV7231 to HV9960 - Criminal justice administration
• HV7551 to HV8280.7 - Police. Detectives.
• KF - Law of the United States (Federal)
• KF379 to KF382 - Jurisprudences and philosophy of American law.
• KF9201 to KF9461 - Criminal law.
• KF9601 to KF9760 - Criminal procedure.
• KFL1 to KFL599 - Law. United States. Louisiana.

Back to top

SELECTED BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY:

• The American Dictionary of Criminal Justice : Key Terms and Major Court Cases, 2nd Edition, 2001.
  Call number: HV 7411 .C48 2001
• Criminal Investigations : A Scenario-Based Text for Police Recruits and Officers , 2002.
  Call number: HV 8073 .M33 2002
• Criminal Procedure for the Criminal Justice Professional, 8th Edition, 2002.
  Call number: KF 9619 .F47 2002
• From Law to Order : The Theory and Practice of Law and Justice, 2000.
  Call number: KF 380 .W35 2000

Back to top

ONLINE RESOURCES:

• Bureau of Justice Statistics, "the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics," a division of the U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.
• crimetheory.com: glossary, The glossary of crimetheory.com, "An educational resource for the learning, researching, and teaching of theoretical criminology."
• Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice, "Here you will find in-depth information about our programs and grants as well as the latest information on criminal justice issues."
• Louisiana State Police provides information on the agency, statistics, training and more.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service, "a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide," administered by the Office of Justice Programs, U. S. Department of Justice.

Back to top