Reference Materials
Subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks typically provide background essays, definitions, broad overviews of various topics, or other pertinent facts.
Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
- Blacks Law Dictionary
- Crime & the Justice System in America
- Dictionary of American Penology
- Dictionary of Criminal Justice
- Encyclopedia of American Prisons
- Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice
- Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment
- Encyclopedia of Human Behavior
- Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice
- Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
- Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime
- Encyclopedia of Police Science
- Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities
- Encyclopedia of Sociology
- Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime
- Encyclopedia of World Crime
- Guide to American Law: Everyone’s Legal Encyclopedia
- Historic U.S. Cases: An Encyclopedia
- International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
- American Dictionary of Criminal Justice
- Social Science Encyclopedia
- Uniform Crime Reports for the United States
- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
- World Encyclopedia of Police Forces & Penal Systems
Directories
- National Directory of Law Enforcement Administrators, Correctional Institutions, etc.
- National Jail & Adult Detention Directory
