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Resources at Watson Library

Watson Library has a variety of books and eBooks on Criminal Justice and related topics. The books listed below are a sampling of what we have available in the library - to find more, check our library catalog, or contact us for help!

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Credo Reference is our scholarly alternative to Wikipedia. It allows you to search hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects. Use this search box to browse Criminal Justice related topics from titles including: 

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Essential Criminology
Designed as an alternative to overly comprehensive, lengthy, and expensive introductory texts, Essential Criminology is, as its title implies, a concise overview of the field. The book guides students through the…
Westview Press 2015

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Violence without Borders: The Internationalization of Crime and Conflict
The Internationalization of Crime, Conflict, and Violence, offers a unified framework to take stock of the theoretical and empirical literature on crime, conflict, and violence and to discuss how the international…
World Bank  |2020

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Wiley Handbooks in Criminology and Criminal Justice:
The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice

This Handbook presents current and future studies on the changing dynamics of the role of immigrants and the impact of immigration, across the United States and industrialized and developing nations.
Wiley  |2018

Resources on the Web

  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service - The Office of Justice Programs is the largest grantmaking component of the Department of Justice and houses the Department’s criminal and juvenile justice-related science, statistics, and programmatic agencies. OJP provides federal leadership, funding, training and technical assistance, research and statistics.

 

  • NCJRS Virtual Library - The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library hosts a collection of over 235,000 information resources on criminal justice subjects, including corrections, courts, drugs, law enforcement, juvenile justice, victims of crime, and related topics. The Virtual Library provides access to all known OJP works and sponsored research, as well as to thousands of government products, research reports, journal articles, and published and unpublished literature produced through 2014.

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