Subject Guides: Criminal Justice: Getting Started

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Subjects: Criminal Justice, Laws, Cases, and Legal Scholarship, Political Science & Government, Public Administration

Criminal Justice Encyclopedias

When starting your research, encyclopedias can provide a comprehensive overview of a topic, define terms from the point of view of a particular academic discipline, and otherwise create a foundation for your paper.

21st Century Criminology by J. Mitchell Miller (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412960199

Publication Date: 2009-08-06

Covers more than 100 key areas in the field of criminology including theory, research methodology, and major types of crime
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity by Dinah Shelton
ISBN: 0028658477

Publication Date: 2004-10-29

Global in scope, this encyclopedia traces the history of events, profiles major players, and explains international laws targeting genocide and crimes against humanity.
Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities by Mary Bosworth (Editor)
ISBN: 076192731X

Publication Date: 2004-12-15

With over 400 entries plus a comprehensive listing of every federal prison in the U.S., this source provides an overview of penal institutions from both an historical and contemporary perspective
A Dictionary of Law Enforcement by Graham Gooch; Michael Williams
ISBN: 9780192807021

Publication Date: 2007-12-18

Contains over 3,400 entries covering law, accountancy, insurance, shipping, commerce and trade, pathology, forensic medicine, criminology, and psychology.

News & Video

From law enforcement documentaries to terrorists group profiles, these specialized news and video sources are a great place to start gathering information.

Criminal Justice & Public Safety in Video
Streaming video series available to the AU community. Includes documentaries, investigative reports, interviews, instructional videos, and primary footage covering topics such as crime scene investigations, forensics, DNA analysis, gang violence, racial and sexual bias, administration of justice, criminological theory, law adjudication, and law enforcement.

Janes
Contains security and defense-related magazines including: Defense Industry; Defense Weekly; International Defense Review; Missiles and Rockets; Navy International, Country Risk Daily Report; Intelligence Review; Intelligence Weekly; Islamic Affairs Analyst; Terrorism Watch Report; and Terrorism and Security Monitor.

Direct links to Janes modules:
Defence Equipment & Technology
Defence Budgets
Military Capabilities
Terrorism & Insurgency
Defence Programmes
Access to Janes IntelTrak and the Janes Tradecraft online courses requires a separate login. Please reach out to Janes by email to request an account.

News & Newspapers - Subject Guide
AU Library's guide to news and newspapers.

Multidisciplinary Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and Handbooks

Oxford Reference Library
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A collection of more than 200 electronic scholarly reference resources from Oxford University Press, including encyclopedias and dictionaries. The whole collection can be searched together, or each work can be searched individually. Use as an alternative to Wikipedia.