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Places to Find Criminal Justice Books & Resources

• Gateway Reference Materials
• Library Catalog - Select Gateway CTC under "Limit search to a single library:"


• Gateway Electronic Books
• NetLibrary


• Gateway Partner Libraries
  Tip: Try using a Keyword search.
  Example Keywords: criminology, crime, juvenile delinquency, prison, police, corrections, prisoners community policing, criminal justice, DNA fingerprinting, law enforcement
• NKU Steely Library Catalog
• Thomas More CollegeLibrary Catalog

Library Research Databases

• Academic OneFile (Through Gale InfoTrac)
• Academic Search Premier(Through EBSCOhost)
• Military and Government Collection(Through EBSCOhost)
• Newspaper Source(Through EBSCOhost)
• Oxford Reference Online
• ProQuest
• TOPICsearch(Through EBSCOhost)

Recommended Web Sites
Government Resources

• U. S. Department of Justice
  The government agency that deals with criminal justice issues
  at the federal level. Particularly useful are reports and websites about national criminal justice issues.
  
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Federal Bureau of Prisons
  
• National Criminal Justice Research Service
  A resource for authoritative reports and statistics on a wide
  range of criminal justice topics, including drugs, juvenile justice,
  and crime victims.
  
• National Institute of Justice
  The research and evaluation agency of the Department of Justice.
  
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
• U. S. Department of Homeland Security
• Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
• U. S. Customs and Border Protection
• Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
  
• Federal Criminal Justice Agencies
  A list of federal agency links.
  

Statistics & Reports

• Criminal Justice System Flowchart
  A resource from the Department of Justice's Bureau of
  Labor Statistics. It outlines the steps and processes
  in the criminal and juvenile justice systems in the U.S.
  
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
  The premier website for federal criminal justice statistics.
  
• FBI Uniform Crime Reports
  Annual compilations of statistics gathered from across the
  country for different types of crimes, including special reports
  on hate crimes and officers killed and assaulted in the line of duty.
  
• Publications of the Justice Research and Statistics Association
  The JRSA conducts and publishes policy-relevant research on justice issues.
  
• Kentucky Justice & Public Safety Cabinet
  

Organizations

• Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
  An international organization established to foster professional
  and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice.
  
• American Probation and Parole Association
  
• American Society of Criminology
  An international organization concerned with criminology,
  embracing scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge
  concerning the etiology, prevention, control and treatment of
  crime and delinquency.
  
• Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
  A private, non-profit educational organization that promotes
  solutions to the problems facing the criminal justice system.
  
• National Crime Prevention Council
  A national non-profit organization involved in community crime prevention.
  
• The Sentencing Project
  A non-profit organization which promotes decreased reliance on
  incarceration and increased use of more effective and humane alternatives.
  It is a nationally known source of criminal justice policy analysis, data
  and program information. Its reports, publications and staff are relied
  upon by the public, policymakers and the media.
  
• Victim Offender Mediation Association (VOMA)
  Provides resources, training, and technical assistance in victim-offender
  mediation, conferencing and related restorative justice practices.
  

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