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Criminal Justice

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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks

General Sources

Criminal Justice.

Location: Gelman Reference KF 9214.5 .C75 2006 vols. 1-3

Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice.

Location: Gale Virtual Reference Library (ALADIN); also Gelman Reference HV 6017 .E52 2002 vols. 1-4

Encyclopedia of Crime & Punishment.

Location: Gelman Reference HV 6017 .E524 2002 vols. 1-4

Encyclopedia of Criminology & Deviant Behavior.

Location: Gelman Reference HV 6017 .E53 2001 vols. 1-4

Encyclopedia of American Crime.

Location: Gelman Reference HV HV 6789 .S54 2001 vols. 1-2

Prisons & Corrections

Encyclopedia of American Prisons (Sifakis).

Location: Gelman Reference HV 9471 .S54 2003

Prisons in America.

Location: Gelman Reference HV 9471 .R36 1999

Encyclopedia of American Prisons (Ed. McShane & Williams).

Location: Gelman Reference HV 9471 .E425 1996

Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice.

Location: Gelman Reference HV 9104 .E58 2003

Specialized Topics

** Selected examples - many more in the HV section of Gelman Reference **

Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States.

Location: Gelman Reference HV 8694 .P35 2001

Encyclopedia of Organized Crime in the United States.

Location: Gelman Reference HV 6446 .K43 2000

Murders in the United States: Crimes, Killers and Victims of the Twentieth Century.

Location: Gelman Reference HV 6524 .F56 2001

Encyclopedia of Women and Crime.

Location: Gelman Reference HV 6046 .E56 2000

Encyclopedia of Terrorism.

Location: Gelman Reference HV 6431 .K883 2003

Encyclopedia of Genocide.

Location: Gelman Reference HV 6322.7 .E53 1999 vols. 1-2

Finding Articles

To access databases with a location of "ALADIN", click on the title of the database. To see a list of databases available through ALADIN, go to the ALADIN Research Portal. Click "Databases by Title," then choose the database you want from the alphabetical groupings.

ALADIN databases are available for use only by current GW students, staff, and faculty. If you are using this page from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter the barcode number from the back of your GWorld ID card before you can access the database.

Criminal Justice Periodicals

Location: ALADIN

This resource provides full text for about 50 periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for another 140 titles on criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, forensic sciences, and criminal and family law.

Ethnic Newswatch

Location: ALADIN

A comprehensive full text general reference database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Continuously growing since 1991, Ethnic NewsWatch is now a collection of more than 635,000 full-text articles from almost 200 publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both languages and more than 130,000 articles in Spanish, ENW provides in-depth coverage of a wide range of current and historical topics easily accessed using free text and fielded searching. An average of 7,500 new articles is added each month.

Forensic Science Abstracts

Location: ALADIN

A multi-disciplinary database that covers literature relevant to the examination of evidential materials, analytical methods and the presentation and interpretation of findings. The database coverage includes drugs and toxicology, forensic biology, forensic chemistry, forensic medicine and pathology, documents and firearms examination, arson investigation, image processing, fingerprints, safety, quality and management aspects of running a Forensic Science Service. In addition, the database covers techniques and problems which are also encountered in many analytical laboratories, especially areas of toxicology and body fluid identification.

Academic Search Premiere

Location: ALADIN

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost

ProQuest Research Library Plus

Location: ALADIN

This multi-subject reference source covering general and academic periodicals; full-text is available for many articles. Also includes Proquest's Computing, Education, Religion, Science, Social Science and Telecommunication Journal modules.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe

Location: ALADIN

Research areas cover news,industry, and market news; legal news and research; company financial information; general medical topics ; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; case law; U.S. Code.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Database

Location: ALADIN

NCJRS provides summaries of criminal justice literature - government reports, journal articles, books, and more. The database was previously available only on CD-ROM and via DIALOG.

Sociological Abstracts 1960 - present. Updated bimonthly.

Location: ALADIN

The main tool for identifying the international literature in theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. The database draws information from an international selection of over 1,800 journals and other serial publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1963 contain in-depth and non-evaluative abstracts. Material from 1952 - 1960 is currently being added.

PAIS International. 1972- Updated monthly.

Location: ALADIN

Bibliographic index covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. Topics covered include economic, political, and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, political science, and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation. Covers selected journal articles, books, and government documents. Coverage includes documents published worldwide in any of six languages. The subject headings and abstracts are in English.

PsycINFO 1806 - present. American Psychological Association.

Location: ALADIN

Provides indexing and abstracting of the psychological literature (1887present) including psychological journal articles, dissertations, technical reports, books, and chapters within books. Provides the most comprehensive coverage of all areas of psychology, both experimental and applied. PsycINFO is the online equivalent to the print index Psychological Abstracts.

Social Sciences Index. 1974 - 1998.

Location: REF AI3 .R492

Location: REF AI3 .R49 (Social Sciences & Humanities Index) 1924 - 1974.

NOTE: Check the WRLC Library Catalog on ALADIN to find out if Gelman Library owns a particular journal title in print, and in the WRLC e-Journal Finder for electronic access options.. It tells exactly what our holdings are, where where they are located, and in what format(s). The Catalog also tells which other WRLC libraries own a periodical that Gelman Library does not own. If you cannot find the journal in ALADIN, please consult with a reference librarian.

Web Resources

Federal Bureau of Prisons

Location: http://www.bop.gov/

U.S Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs: Corrections Statistics

Location: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/correct.htm

Human Rights Watch: Prisons

Location: http://hrw.org/prisons/

Finding Books

Use the WRLC Libraries Catalog to search all Washington Research Libraries Consortium libraries, and WorldCat, a database including the holdings of thousands of libraries, to locate books To find BOOKS, do a Guided Keyword in the Library Catalog on ALADIN. Below are some examples of keyword searches:

prison administration prison discipline prison films prison industries prison libraries prison psychology prison sentences prison violence prisoners prisoners' families prisoners AND fiction prisoners health and hygiene prisoners in literature prisoners AND legal status prisoners AND mental health prisoners AND psychology prisoners AND sexual behavior

prisoners AND substance use prisoners AND united states prisoners AND united states AND drug use corrections corrections AND united states corrections AND united states AND contracting corrections AND philosophy punishment punishment united states punishment AND psychology punishment AND crime deterrence sentecnes criminal procedure torture reparation imprisonment capital punishment alternatives to imprisonment

Directories

2006 Directory of Adult & Juvenile Correctional Departments, Institutions, Agencies, and Probation and Parole (67th edition).

Location: Gelman Reference HV 9463 .D57 2006

Associations

Encyclopedia of Associations.

Location: Gelman Reference HS17 .G32

Provides contact information and brief descriptions of national and international associations.

Citation Styles

Online Style Guides

Location: http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/ref/readyref/style.html

Select this link to view a number of online style guides including APA, MLA, and information on how to cite electronic resources.

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers.

Location: READY REF LB2369 .G53. Latest in reference, earlier editions in the stacks.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

Location: READY REF BF76.7 .P82 1994.

Excerpts available online at http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html.

For More Information

For research assistance in related Sociology topics, consult the Research Guides listed below. Print copies are available near the Reference and Information Desk.

Forensic Sciences

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Psychology

Public Policy

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