CRJU 3800-Race, Ethnicity, & Criminal Justice: Books
Books that check out for 28 days
Here are a few featured titles in the Criminal Justice field. To see more books available at Roberts Library, click here.
- Multicultural Law Enforcement byCall Number: HV7936.P8 M85 2011ISBN: 9780135050880Publication Date: 2010-01-08
- Search and destroy : African-American males in the criminal justice system byCall Number: HV9950 .M55 1996ISBN: 0521460212
- The color of crime : racial hoaxes, white fear, black protectionism, police harassment, and other macroaggressions byCall Number: HV9950 .R87 1998ISBN: 0814774717
Reference Books
Reference Materials! You can't check these books out of the library, but you can use them in the library and make copies as needed. Click here for a complete list of criminal justice reference books.
Encyclopedia of Criminology
Call Number: REF HV6017 .E5295 2005
Encyclopedia of Prisons
Call Number: REF. HV9471 .E693 2005
Crime State Rankings 2010
Call Number: REF HV6787 .C77 2010
Dictionary of American Criminal Justice
Call Number: REF HV7411 .C53 1998
Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment
Call Number: REF HV6017 .E524 2002
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
Call Number: REF HV 6017.E52 2002
Other Legal Sources
- Congressional QuarterlyCall Number: JK1 .C15 (Reference Collection)Available online at: http://library.cq.com
- United States CodeCall Number: Y 1.2/5:2006 (Government Documents)Internet version: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2873
The United States Code is the codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is divided by broad subjects into 50 titles and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. The U.S. Code was first published in 1926. The next main edition was published in 1934, and subsequent main editions have been published every six years since 1934. In between editions, annual cumulative supplements are published in order to present the most current information.
The U.S. Code does not include regulations issued by executive branch agencies, decisions of the Federal courts, treaties, or laws enacted by State or local governments. - United States ReportsCall Number: JU 6.8: (Government Documents)The opinions of the Supreme Court of the United States are published officially in a set of case books called the United States Reports.
In addition to all of the opinions issued during a particular period, a volume may contain a roster of Justices and Court officers during that period; an allotment of Justices by Federal Circuit; announcements of Justices' investitures and retirements; memorial proceedings for deceased Justices; a cumulative table of cases reported; orders in cases decided in summary fashion; reprints of amendments to the Supreme Court's Rules and the various sets of Federal Rules of Procedure; a topical index; and a statistical table summarizing case activity for the past three Court Terms. - United States Statutes at LargeCall Number: AE 2.111: (Government Documents)The United States Statutes at Large, typically referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the permanent collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress.