Criminal Justice

Starting points for research at Hamline

Bush Library, starting from Bush homepage: 

http://www.hamline.edu/bushlibrary/

1.  Books

CLICnet  http://clicnet.clic.edu/

Our online book and periodical catalog.  You can search here to see if we or other consortium libraries owns books or journals.  On or off campus.

A. Find all full-text journal titles by subject, including online journals: Full Text Journals @ Bush Library , then choose Government, Law, and Public Policy and the heading Criminology and Law Enforcement

Here is a list of print periodicals that Bush Library buys to support Criminal Justice research:

Corrections Today, Criminal Justice Ethics, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Police, Police Chief, Reclaiming Children and Youth, Uniform Crime Reports.

B. To find articles on Criminal Justice topics, use an index! go to the Bush homepage, then Find Articles

• Academic Search Premier EBSCO
• Expanded Academic Infotrac
• CIAO
• Criminal Justice Abstracts

  “Criminal Justice Abstracts provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided.Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.

  Criminal Justice Abstracts contains six classifications and corresponding codes usedtogroupabstracts by subject matter. You can retrieve records of a particular classification by searching for the code in the Classification (CL) field. For example, enter either p in cl or cl=p toretrieve records discussing police issues. The classifications and corresponding codes are as follows:Crime, the Offender, and the Victim (C)Juvenile Justice and Delinquency (J)Police (P)Courts and the Legal Process (CT)Adult Corrections (CR)Crime Prevention and Control Strategies (CP)”

• Ethnic NewsWatch

  This database is a full text general reference database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. It is searchable in both English and Spanish, and contains titles in a wide range of current and historical topics in both languages. A tutorial is available for new users of the database. No password, but Limited to 4 simultaneous users.

• GenderWatch
• JSTOR
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts

  NCJRS is a federally‑sponsored information clearinghouse for people involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. It is available both on and off campus.

• News Sources

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Hamline Law Library and Hamline Law Library Online Collections

Use Lexis Nexis Academic-#7 above, with the broad category "Basic Legal Research":

"Secondary Literature

Legal News — Articles from legal newspapers, magazines & newsletters

Law Reviews — Articles from law reviews

Case Law

Get a Case — Federal & state legal cases

Supreme Court citator — Shepard's citations of U.S. Supreme Court cases

Federal Case Law — Decisions from all federal court levels

State Case Law — State high court & appellate decisions

Area of Law by Topic —Cases on a variety of topics

Codes & Regulations

Federal Code —Federal code, U.S. Constitution & court rules

Federal Regulations —   Federal regulations, agency opinions & US Attorney General Opinions

State Codes — Statutory laws, court rules & Attorneys General opinions from all states

Tax Law —The IRS Bulletin, tax regulations & more

International Legal Materials

Canadian Legislative Materials —Canadian Current Legislative Awareness and Canada Federal Legislation (including Consolidated Statutes & Consolidated Regulations

Canadian Statutes & Regulations — Statutes and Regulations of Canada, Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario

EU Law (CELEX) —European Union law

International Case Law — International Case Law

 Patent Research

Patents — All U.S. patents from 1971 to present

Class — Patent Numbers By Classification

Manual — Manual of Classification

Career Information

Martindale‑Hubbell Law Directory Listings  — Details on more than 900,000 lawyers & law firms around the world

Choosing a Law School  — NALP's Degrees of Difference"

INTERNET RESOURCES ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Web of Justice

The Premier Site for Online Criminal Justice Resources

http://www.co.pinellas.fl.us/bcc/juscoord/explore.htm

This is a list of some pertinent criminal justice sites that have a presence on the Internet.

Michigan State University Criminal Justice Resources

http://www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/crimjust.htm

Table of Contents — Electronic and Print Periodical Indexes — Reference Tools — Comprehensive Criminal Justice Web Sites — Academic Destinations —Associations —Breaking News — Community Policing —Computer Security, Cryptography, Encryption, etc. —Corporate and Private Security —Corrections —Courts —Crime —Crime Mapping —Crime Prevention —Criminal Law—Criminal Incident Management—Cults— Fringe or Militia Groups —CyberCrime —Death Penalty —Domestic Violence and Victim Resources —Drugs and Crime —Federal Web Sites —Foreign and International Web Sites —Forensic Science Resources —Gangs —Graduate Education Programs —Gun Control —Hate Crime —Human Trafficking —Job Information —Juvenile Justice —

Law Enforcement —Library Catalogs —Missing/Exploited Children —Money Laundering —Online Discussion Groups —Opposing Viewpoints —Organized Crime —Periodicals and Newsletters Via the Web —Police Corruption ‑ Police Integrity —Police Use of Force —Pornography —Private Investigation —Publishers —Quotes —Race and Criminal Justice —School Safety and Violence —

Security Management —Self‑Defense —Sentencing —Serial or Mass Murder —Sex Crimes —Statistical Resources —SWAT Team Information Resources —Terrorism Groups and Related Issues —Unsolved Crimes and Most Wanted Lists—Women and Criminal Justice —Workplace Violence —

Dr. Frank Schmalleger's Criminal Justice Cybrary

http://talkjustice.com/cybrary.asp

Criminal Justice Cybrary is a huge 12,000 link library of criminal justice sites provides both an index of criminal justice Web sites as well as a comprehensive search feature for uncovering materials of interest on the Web.

Buffalo Criminal Law Center

http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/resource.htm

Criminal Law Resources on the Internet provides on‑line access to criminal law materials from the United States and throughout the world, including, among other things, criminal codes, criminal procedure codes, and enforcement codes.  For a dynamic website integrating these materials into a comprehensive and systematic collection of interconnected annotated codes, court opinions, and commentary, go to the Penal Law Web.

Criminal Justice

http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/cj/cjhome.html

Criminal Justice Links  Dr. Cecil Greek's Criminal Justice Links (Florida State University)

http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks

An excellent collection of criminal justice resources  The resources are broken out into the following categories —Criminal Justice Books — Federal Criminal Justice Agencies — International Criminal Justice Sources — Criminal Justice Information — Crime & Crime Prevention — Juvenile Delinquency — Drug and Alcohol Info —Police Agencies & Resources —The Courts : Due Process and Civil Liberties —Obscenity, Censorship, and the Communications Decency Act — Prisons, the Death Penalty, and Community Corrections — Searchable Law Databases — Other Law Sites on the Web — Criminal Justice Education (including Forensics) — On‑line Criminal Justice Discussion Groups & E‑Journals —Criminal Justice Images —Criminal Justice and the Media — Criminal Justice Photos, and OJ Trial Photos.

Federal Sentencing Guidelines

http://www.ussc.gov/guidelin.htm

Official website, has a great deal of information about the United States Sentencing Commission.

INDEX TO FOREIGN LEGAL PERIODICALS AND ESSAYS (available in paper only)

Law Reference K33 .I38

This is a subject index to selected international and comparative law periodicals and collections of essays as well as a multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in approximately 492 legal journals published worldwide. It provides in‑depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions but NOT the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia. IFLP also analyzes the contents of approximately eighty individually published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, Melanges, and congress reports each year. It’s published quarterly with an annual bound‑volume cumulation. Each single issue consists of approximately 2,700 articles and 300 book reviews.

INDEX TO LEGAL PERIODICALS AND BOOKS (limited to 2 simultaneous users)

Web version goes back to 1981.  Reference Network.  “Journal Article Databases” icon.

Print version goes back to 1908.  Law Reference KF8 .I54

Covers 845 law reviews plus some 1,400 monographs per year. ILP allows searchable access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more.  ILP indexes the content of law-related  periodicals from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia. Uses its own list of subject headings.

LEGAL RESOURCE INDEX a/k/a LEGALTRAC (limited to 2 simultaneous users)

Web version goes back to 1981.  Reference Network.  “Journal Article Databases” icon.

Provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals. Also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.  Uses LC subject headings.

UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW PROJECT

http://www.lawreview.org/

September 27, 2004   I:\Docs\criminal_justice.html Diane Clayton (Law library sources by John Tessner)