Research Guides: Criminal Justice: Getting Started

Getting Started

This guide is for students who are taking a criminal justice course or for those who are interested in learning more about criminal justice.

Reference works (below) are an excellent way of getting background information on your topic. They're usually trustworthy because they've been written and reviewed by subject experts.

Topic Overviews (from Gale eBooks database)

Reference Books

The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice by R. Martinez
Publication Date: 2018
Covers the changing dynamics of race, ethnicity, and immigration, and discusses how it contributes to variations in crime, policing, and the overall justice system.
The Handbook of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice by M. Krohn
Publication Date: 2015
Examines advances in the fields of juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice with interdisciplinary perspectives from leading scholars and practitioners; Provides a current state of both fields.
Routledge Handbook on American Prisons by L.Gould
Publication Date: 2020
Covers the evolution of prisons in the United States and explores key issues: the characteristics of facilities; inmate risk assessment and classification; prison administration and employment; for-profit prisons; special populations; overcrowding; prison health care; prison violence; death row prisoners; collateral consequences of incarceration; prison programming; and parole.