Guide to Resources for Criminal Justice
Reference Books
Printed reference books
Dictionaries of Criminal Justice are found under 364.03 in the Dewey Decimal Classification.
A subject encyclopedia is Encyclopedia of crime and justice; there are other specialized encyclopedias in the catalog.
Other books are found in the reference section under the Dewey Decimal Classification numbers 363-365.
Some electronic books for reference
netLibrary
To access these books from off campus you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.
Oxford Reference
The Oxford Reference Online database has reference books on law, enforcement, and justice.
To access these books from off campus you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.
Finding other books and and audiovisual materials
Use the library catalog to look for additional materials. The Chemeketa catalog page includes instructions on using the catalog and on requesting materials through the catalog. There are also links to other library catalogs. You can search by key words, by authors, or by subject headings. A suggestion on where to find subject headings to use in the catalog is given below.
The Library of Congress has a Web site where you can search for subject headings. When you put in a search term, the results will list terms in a table. Those with a red button marked, "Authorized and references" are terms that the Library of Congress uses in subject catalogs. Clicking the button may show more specific ("narrower") terms.
Fig. 1. The catalog search
You may have to do several searches to find books that might be pertinent to your subject.
If you live in the Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS) district, you may also access the catalog online at your local public library. In addition to the books in the Chemeketa College Library, the catalog also contains the collections of the 17 public libraries located in the regional library district, and can pass your search through to Summit (see below).
Summit
Chemeketa students registered for credit may use Summit, the Orbis Cascade Alliance catalog, to request items from 34 member libraries in Oregon and Washington. Summit uses a search called WorldCat. Authorized users have access to all of the material in the Chemeketa Community College library, plus about 28 million items in Summit. Chemeketa users may request items using their student number and have them sent to Chemeketa, or they may set up a Visiting Patron account at another Alliance library.
- Summit: http://summit.worldcat.org/
- Summit Help: http://www.oclc.org/worldcatlocal/help/default.htm
- Libraries & Map: http://orbiscascade.org/map/
Databases & Indexes
All the electronic databases listed in this section may be accessed by going to the library's Database Page. If you are accessing the databases from a computer not on the Chemeketa Community College network, you will need your My Chemeketa user name and six-digit password.
Journal Article Databases
Online indexes
- Academic Search Premier [EBSCOhost]
- News articles and many scholarly journal articles on criminal justice subjects such as criminology, law enforcement, juvenile justice, and corrections.
- Legal Collection [EBSCOhost]
- Includes 280 legal journals, most of which are in full text. Also includes full text of nine legal newspapers.
- NCJRS Abstracts Database
- Criminal justice abstract database, including crime, juvenile justice, law enforcement, corrections, courts, etc. To limit result to journal articles, type "AND Journal" along with your search term(s). When the NCJRS server has full text of a work, a link connects the user from the abstract to the full text. Journal articles and book chapters are not included in full text. From the National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
Special Guides
Internet Sites
See Useful Sites for Criminal Justice, and Useful Sites for Government & Law.
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