Criminal Justice 300 Introduction to Criminal Justice
This course-specific guide features resources that you may find helpful as you work on your assignments.
Reference Books in Criminal Justice
Major Criminal Justice Databases
Additional Databases to Find Scholarly Articles
Criminal Justice Statistics - National Level
Criminal Justice Statistics - State of Washington
Core Criminology & Criminal Justice
Access to RefWorks
A web-based reference management tool
Please note that the first time you visit RefWorks, you will need to create an individual account. Click on the Sign Up for a New Account to do so. The account allows to save your citations in RefWorks.
Import references from online databases into RefWorks
In order to import references into RefWorks, you must first export them from our online databases. Provided by Wright State University Libraries
Materials to help you use RefWorks
Please use the materials to help you get comfortable using the features and functions of RefWorks available to you.
RefWorks Video Tutorials
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RefWorks Recorded Webinars
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RefWorks One Line/Cite View Paper
RefWorks Write-N-Cite is an optional plu-in that allows you to create a formatted paper with both in-text citations and footnotes.
21st Century Criminology by J. Mitchell Miller (Editor)
21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook provides straightforward and definitive overviews of 100 key topics comprising traditional criminology and its modern outgrowths. The individual chapters have been designed to serve as a "first-look" reference source for most criminological inquires.
Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment by David Levinson (Editor)
Call Number: Online access
The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment provides the much-needed practices, policies, and research in the field of criminal justice.
Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice Ethics
"This Encyclopedia includes A to Z entries that explore the scope of ethical decision making and behaviors within the spheres of criminal justice systems, including policing, corrections, courts, forensic science, and policy analysis and research."
A History of Modern American Criminal Justice
A History of Modern Criminal Justice focuses on the modern aspects of the subject, from 1900 to the present.
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
"Examines the anthropological, sociological, historical, economic, and scientific theories of race and racism in the modem era. Delves into the historic origins of ideas of race and racism and explores their social and scientific consequences. Includes biographies of significant theorists, as well as political and social leaders and notorious racists."
Police Brutality, Racial Profiling, and Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System
Police Brutality, Racial Profiling, and Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly material on social problems involving victimization of minorities and police accountability.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
Articles from criminal justice magazines and journals, with indexing/abstracting from others.
NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Indexes criminal justice journals, with selected magazines and videos back to the 1970s. Links full-text government reports from the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
Nexis Uni Law Reviews
Articles from law reviews and legal magazines/newspapers. Using Guided Search, "What are you interested in?" click Law Reviews.
Legal Collection (EBSCOhost)
Articles from scholarly legal journals and law reviews. Most go back 20 years or less, but a few go back to the mid 1960s, including American Business Law Journal and Journal of Accountancy.
Back files of core scholarly journals in the arts, business, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, from the first issue up to 3-5 years ago.
ProQuest Statistical Insight
Access to tables of statistics on the U.S. and around the world, gathered from US federal agencies and other national and international organizations. To delve deeper into national or international statistics, choose from the Statistical Abstracts links on the far left.
Sources are at the bottom of each table, so if you cannot find exactly the information sought, at least you should be able to find out what agency will collect statistics on that particular issue.
Uniform Crime Reports
Federal Bureau of Investigation's compilation of statistical data, including the annual Crime in the United States, a cooperative statistical effort of over 17,000 city, county, and state law enforcement agencies, Hate Crime Statistics, and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (1994-present; in print GovDoc J29.9/6 1985-present)
Annual compilation of crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government
Statistical arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, compiles data as well as publishes analytical reports, though mainly just down to the state level
Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
Focus on law enforcement, prosecution/courts and incarceration
National Criminal Justice Reference Center
Presents federally-funded statistical reports and articles compiled by the Office of Justice Programs
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Combines a search engine for comprehensive national and international crime statistics with original research data from two separate programs focused on homicide and on human development in the Chicago area
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
A public service organization centered at Syracuse University that requests, compiles, and analyzes federal data on the activities of five major federal law enforcement agencies: the FBI, the IRS, the DEA, the ATF, and the Dept. of Homeland Security
Washington Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center
Portal to data from various state agencies, from the Office of Financial Management
Crime Stats Online aka Washington Criminal Justice Data Book
Online database to retrieve statistics by county
Washington State Criminal Justice Information Support
Data from the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs. WACrimeStats.net permits interactive queries and comparisons of this data
Washington State Inmate and Community Corrections Statistics
Current statistics from the WA Department of Corrections
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Subjects: Criminal Justice