SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Browse through our favourite open access web sites for free books, journals, research reports, periodicals and much more.

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"The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 published and unpublished sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. Since 1973, the project has been located at the University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice, and compiled and managed by staff at the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center in Albany, New York. Most of the 33 volumes of this renowned resource of crime and justice statistics are available here for download.

Complete set: Annual volumes from 1973-2003. (PDF Downloads) NOTE: Some of these files may be very large, especially the earlier years.

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Don M. Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice. Criminal Justice Pathfinder, World Criminal Justice Library Network, and School of Criminal Justice. Rutgers University, Newark. The database consists of over 10,000 items ranging from pamphlets, booklets, research reports, commission reports and many others drawn from over twenty different countries. All items contain a brief summary of contents and a direct link to the item at its original source.

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A collection of all justice and equity related documents containing links to free open access documents from sources in Europe and around the world, issued by Hans J. Kerner via his monthly and special emails. We are gradually populating this collection reaching back to the inception of this valuable resource, around the year 2015.

NOTE: Some of the links to free books and chapters were, when posted on the Kerner Collection, time-limited by the publishers. There are, however, many precious items to be found.

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Edited by Johan D. Lawson

A Collection of the Important and Interesting Criminal Trials Which Have Taken Place in the United States, From the Beginning of Our Government to the Present Day; With Notes and Annotations. The writer and the reader of history will find here abundant material for study and investigation… the American historian of the future will find in this series a record of the lives, the customs and manners of the American people which has hitherto been closed to him. Seventeen volumes

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Thanks to our partners the Center for Problem Oriented Policing, we are proud to make available these wonderful, useful guides for police around the world, especially if they are primarily interested in preventing crime, in contrast to arresting perpetrators after the crime has been done.

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Engaging stories that make you think or giggle, clustered around specific fields of social inquiry such as punishment, civilization, and the ivory tower of academia. Written by Colin Heston. Published every other Friday since 2021, and no end in sight!

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A collection of Freud’s most important works and papers, plus biographies and assessments of Freud’s contribution to the social sciences and the understanding of human behavior.

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Links to all U.S. Sentencing Commission Sourcebooks from 1996-2022.

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