Research Guides: Criminal Justice: Finding Books

Searching for Print Books

If you enjoy browsing the shelves for print books, you'll find titles about criminal justice in these sections of the library:

HV6251-6773.55: Crimes and offenses

HV6774-7220.5: Crimes and criminal classes

HV7431: Prevention of crime, methods, etc.

HV8031-8080: Police duty. Methods of protection

HV8073-8079.35: Investigation of crimes. Examination and identification of prisoners

HV8301-9920.7: Prisons, Corrections

HV9051-9230.7: The juvenile offender

These are just some examples of available ebooks -- the library has many more. Please don't hesitate to ask for help finding them!

The Limits of Community Policing: Civilian Power and Police Accountability in Black and Brown Los Angeles by L. Gascón
Publication Date: 2019
Shows how new community policing tactics amplified--rather than resolved--racial tensions, complicating partnership efforts, crime response and prevention, and accountability.
No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing by J. Haldipur
Publication Date: 2018
Highlights the impact of stop-and-frisk policing on a South Bronx community; Draws on three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork before and after the 2013 Floyd v. City of New York decision that ruled that the NYPD's controversial "stop and frisk" policing methods were a violation of rights; Shows how the patrols cleared the streets of residents and made public spaces feel off-limits. Community members lost the very 'street corner' culture that had been a hallmark of urban spaces.
Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology by G. Leventakis
Publication Date: 2018
Presents new approaches and innovative challenges to address bringing technology into community-oriented policing efforts.

Criminal Investigation by I. Stainton
Publication Date: 2022
Examines investigation from inception to conclusion, detailing methods, explaining legal requirements and reflecting on past investigations; Includes explanation of contributory roles of specialists and forensic support.
Advances in Police Investigations by C. Wellford
Publication Date: 2021
Crime Scene Management: Scene Specific Methods by R. Sutton
Publication Date: 2016
Includes coverage of issues surrounding major and complex crime; forensic handling of mass fatalities; crime scene reconstruction and impact on evidence recovery processes.

American Criminal Courts: Legal Process and Social Context by C. Welch
Publication Date: 2013
Offers a comprehensive study of the legal processes that guide criminal courts; Explores how democratic processes develop criminal law in the U.S., the documents that define law (federal and state constitutions, legal codes, administrative policies), and the organizational structure of courts at the federal and state levels; Includes chapters on judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys as well as the impact of advocacy groups, media, and politicians.
Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America by S. Mayeux
Publication Date: 2020
Chronicles the intertwined histories of constitutional doctrine, big philanthropy, professional in-fighting, and Cold War culture that made public defenders ubiquitous but embattled figures in American courtrooms.
Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions by M. Godsey
Publication Date: 2017
Shares how innate psychological flaws in judges, police, lawyers, and juries coupled with a "tough on crime" environment can cause investigations to go awry, leading to the convictions of innocent people.

Race and Crime: Geographies of Injustice by E. Brown
Publication Date: 2018
Examines how race became a defining feature of the criminal justice system and why mass incarceration emerged as a racial management strategy.
Prison Alternatives and Rehabilitation by C. Russell
Publication Date: 2017
Explores the various prison alternatives from rehabilitation and community service, to boot camps, day reporting, and house arrest.
Incarceration Nation: How the United States Became the Most Punitive Democracy in the World by P. Enns
Publication Date: 2016
Combines analysis of Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon's presidential campaigns with sixty years of data analysis. The result is an accessible picture of the rise of mass incarceration. Also argues that media coverage of rising crime rates helped fuel the public's punitiveness.

America's Addiction to Terrorism by H. Giroux
Publication Date: 2015
Demonstrates how fear and lawlessness have become organizing principles of life in the United States, and violence an acceptable form of social mediation; Addresses officially sanctioned torture, militarized police forces, and austerity politics.
Sovereignty in the Age of Global Terrorism: The Role of International Organisations by M. Feinberg
Publication Date: 2016
Analyses the role of international organisations in adopting counterterrorism measures after 9/11 and the impact of these measures on the sovereignty of their Member States.

A New Juvenile Justice System by N. Dowd
Publication Date: 2015
Aims for the replacement of the existing system with a different vision, centered around the principle of child well-being and the goal of helping kids to achieve productive lives; Envisions a system responsive to the needs of youth as well as to the community's legitimate need for public safety.

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