Reference Sources
There are many helpful encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks in Widener and other libraries that can give you a general overview of a specific topic. You can try searching in HOLLIS for your subject plus the words encyclopedias or dictionaries. Thus: “United States” AND “Intellectual life” AND (encyclopedias OR dictionaries) yields:
The Oxford encyclopedia of American cultural and intellectual history, ed. by Joan Shelley Rubin and Scott E. Casper. Oxford; NY: Oxford University Press, 2 v.
Widener | RR 3627.95
Encyclopedia of American cultural & intellectual history, ed. by Mary Kupiec Cayton, Peter W. Williams. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2001, 3 v.
Lamont | REFERENCE | E169.1 .E624 2001
Widener | RR 3627.93
Encyclopedia of prisons & correctional facilities. Ed. by Mary Bosworth. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005. 2 v.
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Encyclopedia of race and racism, ed. by Patrick L. Mason. 2nd ed. Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA, 2013. 4 v.
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American prisons and jails (Summary and policy implications of a national survey) Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1980. 5 v.
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Routledge handbook of corrections in the United States, ed. by O. Hayden Griffin, III and Vanessa H. Woodward. New York, NY : Routledge, 2018, 515 p.
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African Americans and criminal justice : an encyclopedia, ed. by Delores D. Jones-Brown, Beverly D. Frazier, and Marvie Brooks, Editors. Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, 2014, 631 pages
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The encyclopedia of criminology and criminal justice, ed. by Jay S. Albanese. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2014.
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World encyclopedia of police forces and correctional systems, ed. by George Thomas Kurian, 2nd ed. Detroit : Thomson Gale, 2006. 2 v.
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Encyclopedia of law enforcement, ed. by Larry E. Sullivan and Marie Simonetti Rosen. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005. 3 v.
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Encyclopedia of American social movements, ed. by Immanuel Ness. Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, 2004. 4 v.
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | HN57 .E594 2004
Kennedy Sch of Gov | Ref | HN57 .E594 2004
Widener | RR 4745.10
Oxford Companion to American Law Offers a comprehensive guide to the development and current status of American law through an alphabetical organization that comprises several broad categories of entries. Print version:
Lamont | REFERENCE | KF154 .O96 2002
Law School | Reference | KF154 .O96 2002 c.2
Law School | Special Coll Ref | KF154 .O96 2002
Widener | RR 4423.4
The U.S. justice system : an encyclopedia, ed. by Steven Harmon Wilson. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2012. 3 v.
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Criminological thought : pioneers past and present, by Randy Martin and Robert J. Mutchnick, W. Timothy Austin. New York : Macmillan, 1990. xxiii, 424 p.
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Cops, crooks, and criminologitsts: an international biographical dictionary of law enforcement, by Alan Axelrod, Charles Phillips, with Kurt Kemper. New York : Facts On File, 2000. xiii, 322 p.
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