Call Number Ranges
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Books on the broad subject of Criminal Justice can be found in various portions of the "HV" call number area of the General Collection and the Reference Collection.
OPEN ACCESS TEXTBOOK
Computers and Criminal Justice, by Prof. Eric R. Ramirez - Thompson
Some selected new books are highlighted here.
Use the Library Catalog to search for these books by keyword.
One sample search might be something like: crim* AND [some other word to match with crim*]
Or just the name of the topic: terrorism
The asterisks at the end of the word are truncation features, and allow you to pick up variations of the word:
crime or crimes or criminal or criminals without having to type out separately all the variations of a word.
Illinois Practice Series. These online books are available online in the Westlaw Database, on the Secondary Sources page, click on the ILLINOIS link under the State resources, and then click on the link for this series in the TEXTS AND TREATISES section. Click on the blue ARTICLES tab to the right to get a list of relevant databases.
E-book databases and Online Video databases
Items on Course Reserve at the downstairs Library Circulation Desk
List of Case Studies on Criminal Justice or Law Enforcement
Finding Spanish - Language Materials help
NEARBY PUBLIC AND ACADEMIC LIBRARIES
Outline of the Library of Congress Classification System (what COD uses to arrange its books on the shelves).
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Selected New Books
All Our Trials
During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners' and psychiatric patients' rights, and gender and sexual liberation.
Effective Communication in Criminal Justice
"This text provides students and instructors with a detailed examination of communication in the criminal justice system. Specific issues confronting criminal justice practitioners in their daily activities, including interactions with the public, are explored. T
Charged
This book examines the unchecked power of the prosecutor as a driving force in America's mass incarceration crisis--and charts a way out. A prosecutorial shift toward mercy and fairness is crucial to healing our busted criminal justice system, and it's already happening.
