Criminal Justice 

These are equivalent to what you would find on the shelf in a library.

• Books on a single topic by one (or two or three...) authors.
• Books which are edited volumes where each chapter is written by a different expert.
• Audio-visual material such as DVDs, videos, CDs, etc.
• Scores and librettos.

See the Articles tab for locating journals, magazines and newspapers.

1. Try a title or keyword search on your topic.
2. Look at several relevant records from the results list and note words and phrases from the "subject" area.
3. Go back to the search screen and search BY SUBJECT using the words you identified in step 2.
4. When you find something useful, either copy down the call number and location (if it is in our library) or submit an interlibrary loan

More detailed directions can be found on our Searching Databases page.

Most U.S. documents relating to criminal justice topics are shelved ub the US Docs area with numbers beginning: J...

Documents about justice from New York State agencies can be found in the New York State documents collection at:

• COR (Corrections)
• COU (Courts)
• CRI (Criminal Justice)
• LEG (Legislature)

Use the Excelsior catalog to search for New York State documents.

HM   Sociology (General)

• 811 - 821   Deviant behavior
• 1001 - 1281   Social psychology

HV   Social Pathology, Social and Public Welfare, Criminology

• 1 - 9960   Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
• 40 - 696   Social service. Charities.
• 697 - 4959   Protection, assistance and relief. Arranged by special classes of persons, as determined by age, defects, occupation, race, economic status, etc. Including protection of animals.
• 4961 - 4995   Degeneration
• 4997 - 5000   Substance abuse
• 5001 - 5720.5   Alcoholism. Intemperance. Temperance reform.
• 5725 - 5770   Tobacco habit
• 5800 - 5840   Drug habits. Drug abuse.
• 6001 - 7220.5   Criminology
• 6251 - 6773.3   Crimes and offenses
• 7231 - 9960   Criminal justice administration
• 8301 - 9920.5   Penology. Including police, punishment and reform, juvenile delinquency.