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Criminal Justice: Criminal Justice

Reference, Documents & Maps Librarian

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Bruce Sarjeant
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Lydia Olson Library, Gries Hall #36
Northern Michigan University
1401 Presque Isle Ave
Marquette, MI 49855
906-227-1580

Criminal Justice

Additional databases related to Criminal Justice can be found at this link.  The ones listed below are the most popular.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts 
Contains journal articles, books, and other resources on the subjects of corrections, courts, drugs, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims. 1970 to the present.  

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library
This links to the advanced search screen of the free version (the link above is NMU's subscription version), available from the Department of Justice.  Direct links out to scholarly journals might not work as well (but look for those articles in google scholar or the subscription version).

CrimeSolutions 
From the Department of Justice, this resource is "a web-based clearinghouse of programs and practices and a process for identifying and rating those programs and practices".

The Law Enforcement Knowledge Lab 
A resource from the DOJ that serves as a “one-stop-shop” for reliable guidance, modern policies, and best practices for fair and impartial policing.  Scroll down to "Resources" or "Core Practice Areas".

Michigan Legislature (Michigan Penal Code begins in Section 750)

Michigan Courts — official Michigan government web site.

Legal Source 
Includes over 1,200 full-text journals and over 2.5 million records, including book reviews and case citations. Offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, organized crime, ethics, the environment. Brought to you by the Library of Michigan via the Michigan eLibrary (https://mel.org).

Westlaw Next  
Provides access to a variety of legal information, including federal and state case law, the United States Code Annotated, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, state statutes and administrative codes, and more. Also included are 900 law journals and reviews.

HeinOnline 
This is a legal research database containing comprehensive coverage of U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,600 scholarly journals.  Also includes databases on legal topics such as Criminal Justice & Criminology, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture & Law, Religion and the Law, Gun Regulation and Legislation in America, and Civil Rights and Social Justice.

Homeland Security Digital Library
Although a resource for homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management, a surprising amount of federal, state, and local resources for law enforcement can be found here.

The Blackwell Companion to Criminology.

Oxford Companion to American Law  
This resource takes as its starting point the insight that law is embedded in society, and that to understand American law one must necessarily ask questions about the relationship between it and the social order, now and in the past. The volume takes seriously issues involving laws role in structuring decisions about governance, the significance of state and local law and legal institutions, and the place of American law in a comparative international perspective.

See also NMU's Legal Resources guide.