Criminal Justice at the WSU Libraries

The Holland and Terrell Libraries contain many resources for students and faculty interested in the discipline of Criminal Justice. If you have any questions not answered on the WSU Libraries website, or would like to request a book, journal, or other resource in this subject area, please contact your subject liaison librarian, Lorena O'English. For questions about the Criminal Justice Program, please see WSU's Department of Political Science. Related WSU Libraries subject guides may include Law and Sociology.

Library Resources

• Library Catalogs

  • GRIFFIN Griffin, the WSU Libraries catalog, includes holdings for all WSU libraries on the Pullman campus and across the state. Holdings for Eastern Washington University's JFK Library share the Griffin system. Please note: electronic journals and other "virtual" publications are included in the catalog.
  • SUMMIT Use Summit to search the holdings of the libraries of the six public universities in Washington state as well as colleges and universities in Oregon, and request books to be delivered to you at a WSU Libraries circulation desk within a few days. If you don't find a book you are looking for in our catalog, click on the "Search Summit" button at the top of your search results page. You can also search Summit directly through Griffin. (More info...)
  • OCLC WorldCat This "catalog of catalogs" includes the holdings of thousands of libraries in the United States and elsewhere. WSU-affiliated users can use InterLibrary Loan to get access to resources that you find that are not available through Griffin or Summit.

• Indexes, Abstracts and Other Databases

A full list of periodical databases available through the WSU Libraries is available on the Article Indexes/Full Text/ & More page. Note: Not all of the periodical indexes that cover the field of criminal justice are available electronically.

• Criminal Justice Abstracts     HOLREF HV 6001 C675 (Volume 9 (1977) - current)
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
  Search fulltext Federal sources for crime and justice information, research, statistics, and funding opportunities. Updated daily.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains citations and abstracts of more than 180,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Note: not all of these resources may be available at the WSU Libraries.
• Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) (WSU Only) Index to popular, professional and academic magazine and journal articles, often with full text. .
• SocAbstracts (WSU Only) Citations with abstracts to articles on all aspects of sociology, social work, and other social sciences, with lots of coverage of criminal justice issues. Covers 1963-present; updated 6 times a year.
• PAIS (WSU Only) Citations with summaries to all types of publications in the area of world public affairs and social policy. Covers 1972 - present; updated monthly.
• Sage Public Administration Abstracts (WSU Pullman and DDP only) Provides citations with summaries to the recent literature on all aspects of public administration. Entries are drawn from books, articles, pamphlets, government publications, significant speeches, legislative research studies and other fugitive material. Covers 1998 - present; updated quarterly.
• GPO Monthly Catalog (WSU Only) Citations to U.S. Government publications from the Government Printing Office (GPO). Covers 1976-present; updated monthly.
• Government Periodicals Universe (WSU Pullman and DDP Only) Provides detailed subject and author indexing to over 170 periodicals published by the U.S. government. All subjects of interest to the U.S. government are covered. Some coverage back to 1988; updated quarterly. (Note: some fulltext available - click on the "Government Periodicals Universe on the Web" link.)
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (WSU Only - restricted to WSU students for educational purposes only) Provides access to a wide range of sources, including fulltext legal information and fulltext and abstracted information from newspapers, magazines, company annual reports, news and business magazines, and more. Dates of coverage vary by source.
• Current Law Index     HOLREF Table B (Volume 3 (1982 ) - current)
• PsycInfo Citations with abstracts to articles in over 2,100 psychology research journals as well as dissertations and research reports; contains full text of 50 APA journals from 1894 on. Covers 1800s - present.
• Social Sciences Index 1974-current. HOLREF AI3 S632

Note: Earlier access to social sciences literature is available from the Social Sciences and Humanities Index from 1965-1974 and the International Index from 1907-1965 (shelved with the SSI).

• ContentsFirst (WSU Only) Tables of contents from nearly 12,500 journals, searchable by journal. Covers 1990-present; updated daily.
• ArticleFirst is a related database that is an index to the articles included in those tables of contents.
• Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts) (WSU Only) Citations for U.S. (and some Canadian) dissertations 1861- present. Includes abstracts for dissertations published from 1980-present (some recent dissertations offer a 24-page preview). Also includes citations and abstracts for master's theses from 1988-present.

• Reference Books

The Holland and Terrell Libraries' reference section (HOLREF) is on the first floor, behind the Reference Desk. This is a small sampling of the many resources available:

• Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior HOLREF HV6017 .E53 2001
• Encyclopedia of World Crime : Criminal Justice, Criminology, and Law Enforcement HOLREF HV6017 .E54 1989
• Dictionary of American Penology HOLREF HV9304 .W54 1996
• Capital Punishment : A Bibliography
• Fundamentals of Criminal Investigation HOLREF HV8073 .O39 1994Crime in the United States: Uniform Crime Reports HOLREF U.S. Docs J1.14/7 (1992-1999 - older editions in HOLSTX)
• Available online
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics HOLREF U.S. Docs J 29.9/6 1998 (Older editions in HOLSTX) Updated edition available online
• Jumpstarting Your Career: An Internship Guide for Criminal Justice HOLREF HV9950 .T38 1998
• National Criminal Justice Thesaurus [prepared for the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, by Aspen Systems Corp.] HOLREF U.S. Documents J 28.28: 1998
• Criminal Justice Information : How to Find It, How to Use It HOLREF HV7419.5 .C75 1998

• Data Sets

  The primary source for data sets for Washington State University faculty and students is the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. You can download directly from ICPSR to any computer on one of the WSU campuses. For more information about acquiring data files and what machine readable data files are held in the Holland and Terrell Libraries, see the Holland and Terrell Libraries Data Archive.

Electronic Journals

WSU Libraries list electronic journal holdings in two locations:

1. Electronic journals can be found by doing a title search in the library's catalog, Griffin. Journals that are available electronically will have hypertext links directly to the journal or to the full-text database that contains the journal.
2. You can also search the A-to-Z Electronic Journals List.

    Some major sources of electronic journals for Political Science:

• ScienceDirect This service provides access to over 800 journals published by Reed Elsevier, including a number that focus on criminal justice. Coverage is from 1995 to the present. A list of searchable and browsable social science-related journals is available.
• Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) An interdisciplinary database that contains many full-text journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

Internet Links

Meta-Sites | Professional Associations and Resources | Criminal Justice Statistics | Other Criminal Justice Resources

Criminal Justice Meta-Sites

• Criminal Justice Links (From the Florida State University School of Criminology & Criminal Justice)
  Try using the cool Criminal Justice System Processing Chart to find what you are looking for...
• MegaLinks in Criminal Justice (From Dr. O'Connor of North Carolina Wesleyan University)
• Criminal Justice Links (From the Vera Institute of Justice)

Professional Associations and Resources

• National Criminal Justice Association
  The National Criminal Justice Association (NCJA) exists to foster the development of criminal justice systems in the states and units of local government that enhance public safety; that prevent and reduce the harmful effects of criminal behavior on individuals and communities; that adjudicate defendants and sanction offenders fairly and justly; and that use their resources effectively and efficiently."
• The Justice Research and Statistics Association
  "The Justice Research and Statistics Association is a national nonprofit organization of state Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) directors, researchers, and practitioners throughout government, academia, and criminal justice organizations." The organization serves as a "a clearinghouse of current information on state criminal justice research, programs, and publications training in the latest computer technologies for records management, data analysis, Internet, forecasting, and other cutting-edge topics."
• The International Association of Chiefs of Police
• Law Enforcement Mailing Lists (From Officer.com)

Criminal Justice Statistics

• Bureau of Justice Statistics (Part of the U.S. Department of Justice)
  Extensive list of statistical information, including crime and victim statistics, criminal offenders, crime and justice data, international data, judicial system information, and more.
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
  "The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1999 presents a broad spectrum of criminal justice data from more than 100 sources in 6 sections: characteristics of the criminal justice systems, public attitudes toward crime and criminal justice topics, the nature and distribution of known offenses, characteristics and distribution of persons arrested, judicial processing of defendants, and persons under correctional supervision."
• State and Federal Crime Statistics 1960-1996 (from the National Crime Prevention Council)
• County & City Crime Statistics Link Guide (From Organized Crime: A Crime Statistics Site)
• Criminal Victimization Statistics 1973-1995 (From the Statistical Abstract of the United States)
• International Crime Statistics Link Guide
  Includes United Nations Crime and Justice Profiles for many nations.
• The Campus Crime and Security at Postsecondary Institutions Homepage (From the U.S. Department of Education)
  Provides access to reported criminal offenses for over 6000 colleges and universities in the United States.
• Holland and Terrell Libraries' Data Archive
  The Holland and Terrell Library Data Archive offers the Washington State University community access to a wide variety of numerical data resources acquired through the Library's United States and State of Washington depository programs, membership in the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and other data gathering and distributing organizations.

Other Criminal Justice Resources

• The United States Department of Justice Site includes extensive information, including the National Institute for Justice, the R&D branch of the DOJ, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and much, much more.
• Interpol (The International Criminal Police Organization)
  
• APBNews.com: You Have the Right to Know An online news network providing news, information and data on crime, justice and safety. Site includes an extensive Resource Center with offender databases and more.
• Corrections.com: The Official Home of Corrections "The Corrections Connection came online in February 1996 as the first weekly news source committed to improving the lives of corrections professionals and their families. Our intention was to create an open forum where practitioners could exchange ideas and utilize best practices, resources, case studies and new technologies."
• Officer.com A law enforcement resource website.