Criminology: Find Books

Find books (including ebooks), electronic government publications, and DVDs in the library catalog.

• Click "More Search Options" to go beyond a quick search from library homepage

• Use quotes to search for a phrase
  • "law enforcement"

• Search by boolean keyword, combining different concepts using and
  • "capital punishment" and race

• Use Limits to narrow your results to a specific format or collection, i.e. Reference Collection, DVDs

• Use the subject terms associated with relevant to link to additional items in the catalog that have the same subject terms

Try a Subject Heading browse in the online catalog (or click on subject headings within relevant records). A small sample of possible relevant subject headings includes:

• Criminology
• Community policing--United States
• Corrections--Political aspects--United States
• Criminal law
• Criminal statistics--United States
• Crime prevention--United States
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States
• Discrimination in law enforcement--United States
• Gang members--United States
• Imprisonment--United States
• Imprisonment--Government policy--United States
• Jails--United States
• Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States
  
• Law enforcement--United States
• Police administration--United States
• Police brutality--United States
• Police-community relations--United States
• Police misconduct--United States
• Prisons--United States
• Prison psychology
• Prison administration--United States
• Prisoners--United States--Social conditions
• Prisoners--Mental health--United States
• Racial profiling in law enforcement--United States
• Racism in criminology--United States
• School discipline--United States

Once you find a good book on your topic, you should check out the books on nearby shelves. Books on similar topics are shelved together.