E. H. Butler Library - Criminal Justice Subject Guide

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Bengal Central Search - Criminal Justice Buffalo State login and password required

Academic Search Complete Buffalo State login and password required
Journal articles on a wide range of topics. Provided by SUNYConnect.

Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Buffalo State login and password required
Peer reviewed articles covering subjects such as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, policing, forensic psychology, and domestic violence.

HeinOnline Buffalo State login and password required
Collection of legal research materials, including law journals and coverage of the Supreme Court, Federal Register, and Treaties and Agreements.

LegalTrac Buffalo State login and password required
Indexes law reviews, bar association journals, and other legal periodicals (1980 - present).

LexisNexis Academic Buffalo State login and password required
News, business, legal, and reference information from periodicals, wire service reports, news broadcasts, and more.

NCJRS Database
Searchable collection of over 3500 full-text documents, plus 190,000 article and document abstracts, from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service database and library.

Sage Premier (Sage Journals Online) Buffalo State login and password required
Over 450 scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, and health.

SocIndex with Full Text Buffalo State login and password required
journals in sociology and social work, plus coverage of criminal justice, anthropology, gender studies, and more. Also indexes books and conference papers.

Web of Science Buffalo State login and password required
Search for citations to scholarly journal articles in all subject areas. Conduct cited reference searches for articles that cite a previously published work. (1970 - present)

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Reference Books: Criminal Justice
An active catalog link for reference books in this subject. Reference books are located in the Information Commons room (map).

Criminal Justice: Encyclopedias (Gale Virtual Reference Library) Buffalo State login and password required
Academic encyclopedias and reference sources.

Criminology and Criminal Justice: Sage eReference Buffalo State login and password required
Academic encyclopedias and reference books.

Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences Buffalo State login and password required
Academic encyclopedia from Elsevier/Academic Press.

Research Methods & Evaluation: Sage eReference Buffalo State login and password required
Academic encyclopedias and reference books.

American Factfinder
A quick entry into U.S. Census information, with Fact Sheets available for cities/towns, zip codes, counties, and states, including population, housing, economic, and geographic data.

Bureau of Justice Statistics
A wide range of criminal justice statistics.

European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics
Crime and criminal justice statistics compiled by the Council of Europe for its member countries.

Faulkner's Security Management Practices Buffalo State login and password required
Specialized reports on many aspects of security: electronic, personnel, physical, and information technology.

Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Web page of this agency of the U.S. Dept. of Justice includes a facility locator and address directory for Federal Prison facilities.

New York State Criminal Justice Statistics
Statistics on law enforcement and crime in New York State from the State Division of Criminal Justice Services.

New York State Dept. of Corrections Facility Listing
A directory/listing of state correctional facilities.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Data from over 100 sources about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States.

TRAC (Transactional Records Action Clearinghouse) Buffalo State login and password required
Reports, bulletins, and data on federal spending, staffing, and law enforcement activities of the federal government.

Uniform Crime Reports
Crime statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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ACLU: Criminal Justice
Provides information about criminal justice in the 109th Congress and links to other criminal justice sites.

Amnesty International: The Death Penalty
Provides facts and figures on the death penalty in countries around the world.

Death Penalty Information and Resources
Capital punishment statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1989-1997. This anti-capital punishment site also includes links to death penalty information.

Death Penalty Information Center
Provides statistics and information on a variety of issues concerning capital punishment in the U.S. and worldwide.

Ethics Updates: Punishment and the Death Penalty
Provides links to dozens of useful sources including statistics and full-text articles.

Films On Demand Buffalo State login and password required Resource contains video
Over 5,000 academic-level educational streaming videos covering most subject areas, from Films Media Group.

Internet Public Library: Law Enforcement
Search the entire collection or browse the annotated resources in this category.

Librarians' Internet Index : Crime
A searchable, annotated subject directory selected and evaluated by librarians.

netLibrary Buffalo State login and password required
Search the contents of thousands of books online.

TracFed Buffalo State login and password required
Information from the non-partisan Transactional Records Action Clearinghouse about federal government activities in law enforcement, courts, criminal justice, etc.

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Campus Crime and Security at Postsecondary Education Institutions
Direct link to reported criminal offenses for over 6000 colleges and universities in the United States.

Erie County Departments
Provides links under Law and Justice to Central Police, Correctional Facilities, Probation Department, Sheriff, and other local resources.

Federal Bureau of Investigation

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
NCJRS is a federally sponsored information clearinghouse for research, policy and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. This site provides links to statistics and searchable databases with thousands of abstracts and full-text publications.

New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
A criminal justice support agency with links to Criminal Justice Statistics for New York State, sex offender registry, correctional facilities, publications, and more.

United States Department of Justice
Enforces the law and defends the interests of the U.S. according to the law. Provides information on consumer fraud, domestic violence, prison and parole, etc.

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Criminal Justice Department at Buffalo State

Buffalo State University Police
Includes a link to Buffalo State crime statistics.

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American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section

Community Justice Exchange

National Center on Institutions and Alternatives

Society for Police and Criminal Psychology

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'Urban safety, anti-social behaviour and the night-time economy'
The contemporary city is a contested space and its governance is the subject of complex global economic forces, local interests and political struggles as well as a response to the changing face of governing alliances in residential and commercial areas, forms of consumption, commercially-generated crime and disorder and cultural expressions of leisure. This article seeks to provide a thematic introduction to the manner in which the regulation of contemporary British cities has been influenced by concerns with tackling anti-social behaviour and promoting civility. It argues that in governing urban safety, the normative governmental agendas that seek to remoralize and cleanse city spaces and promote certain values of appropriate consumer-citizen, often clash with commercially-driven imperatives to (excessive) consumption and the allure of cities, for some, as places of difference that exhibit relaxed normative constraints; most notably in the night-time economy. It argues that the manner in which these forces are played out is conditioned by the interplay between different actors and organizations, as both regulators and regulated, some of whom have assumed new responsibilities in the governance of urban safety. The resultant pressures have produced mixed experiences of the city as a meeting place for loosely connected strangers, as a place of indulgence and as a place of cultural expression.
Social landlords and the regulation of conduct in urban spaces in the United Kingdom
Social landlords in the United Kingdom are embedded in governance regimes that regulate citizens’ conduct, including addressing antisocial behaviour. This article seeks to contribute to the literature on the geography of regulating conduct through examining the spatial dimensions of social landlords’ attempts to influence behaviour, and to map the range of technologies and measures utilized by social landlords on to particular urban spaces. Two spaces are identified: the property and its vicinity, and the wider neighbourhood. The article argues that social landlords have been engaging in increasingly intensive regulation of the private and domestic arena of the home as well as expanding their role in the regulation of spaces and populations within and beyond residential neighbourhoods.
Repertoires of distinction: Exploring patterns of weekend polydrug use within local leisure scenes across the English night time economy
Presented here are the first findings of self report surveys of prevalence of illicit drug use by customers in the night time economy of a large English city. Five random sample surveys conducted with dance club customers and three similar surveys with bar customers identified an association between illicit drug use, entertainment type and venue type. First, club customers were significantly more likely to report lifetime, past month and fieldwork night drug use than bar customers. Second, distinct and prolific polydrug repertoires were associated with the genres of electronic dance music favoured within different clubs, along with evidence of the growing popularity of emergent drugs such as MDMA powder. Such polydrug repertoires support the notion of culturally, spatially and pharmacologically distinct local leisure scenes operating within the contemporary night time economy; rather than the same broad mass of customers choosing different leisure experiences on different occasions, or the more fluid, ‘neo-tribal’ cultural groupings suggested by some. The article concludes by suggesting that prolific and enduring weekend polydrug repertoires within local leisure scenes increasingly polarize such scenes from drug use in the general population, with implications for policing and governance, alongside the need for a more nuanced understanding of the night time economy as an analytical concept in social research.

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