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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
A searchable collection of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries of a number of criminology topics, written by experts in the field.
SAGE Knowledge: Criminology & Criminal Justice
Browse and search all of the criminology and criminal justice reference titles available.
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Entry topics include: Corrections and Criminal Justice Supervision; Courts, Sentencing and the Judicial System; Crimes, Criminals and Victims; Crime Places and Situations; Explanations for Criminal Behavior; Forensic Science; Data, Methods and Statistics; Police and Law Enforcement; Psychology of Law; Social Interventions and Prevention.
21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook
Provides overviews of nearly 100 key topics in criminology. Topics include theories of crime, measurement and research, types of crime, and more.
Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources
Entries discuss primary sources (speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) essential to understanding the complexity of crime and punishment.
Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment
Surveys the entire field of criminal justice. Topics include policing and forensics, corrections, and victimology.
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
This interdisciplinary source addresses law, sociology, psychology, history, and economics.
Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities
The two-volume set provides a critical overview of penal institutions within a historical and contemporary framework.
Encyclopedia of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 2nd ed
Covers the history and development of white-collar and corporate crime in the U. S. and internationally.
The SAGE Handbook of Global Policing
A collection of essays by leading experts that explores the interaction of globalization and police studies.
The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime
Historical analyses, biographies, and legal case studies examine the intersection of race, class, and gender with both crime and victimization.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Criminal Psychology
Entry topics include: criminal behavior, criminal justice policies and legal process, crime detection and prevention, eyewitness identification, prison life, offender assessment and rehabilitation, risk assessment and management, offender mental health, community reintegration, and juvenile offending.
Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources
Entries discuss primary sources (speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, etc.) essential to the understanding of terrorism.

The following are early works that helped establish important concepts in the field of criminology. Click on a title to find it in UF Libraries.

For an overview of these and more classic works, read "Classics of Criminology" by Joseph E. Jacoby.

A Bentham Reader. by Jeremy Bentham
19th-century English philosopher Bentham wrote extensively about legal and social reform. He is famous for his prison design called the panopticon.
Class, State, and Crime. by Richard Quinney
Quinney argues that criminal laws are used by the state to suppress threats to capitalist order.
Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang. by Albert Cohen
In this book, Cohen advances subcultural theory in which gangs develop their own culture in response to a lack of economic opportunity.
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. by Michel Foucault
In this history of the penal system, Foucault analyzes punishment in its social context and examines how changing power relations affected punishment.
The English Convict: A Statistical Study (abridged). by Charles Goring
In this study published in 1913, Goring compared the physical and mental characteristics of 3,000 English convicts to groups of "noncriminals."
The Functions of the Police in Modern Society. by Egon Bittner
This groundbreaking 1970 work examines the relationship between police and society. In it, Bittner argues that police are defined by their capacity to use force.
The Jukes: A Study in Crime, Pauperism, Disease, & Heredity. by Robert L. Dugdale
This study of a large extended family "of criminals, paupers, and harlots" in upstate New York was used as justification for the eugenics movement.
Juvenile Delinquency in Urban Areas. by Clifford R. Shaw & Henry D. McKay
This study of juvenile delinquency in Chicago in the early 1900's found that delinquency rates always remained high for a certain region of the city, no matter what immigrant group lived there.
On Crimes and Punishments. by Cesare Beccaria
Published in 1764, this is the first work about penology. In it, Beccaria advocates reform of the criminal justice system and argues against the death penalty.
Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. by Howard S. Becker
In this work, Becker argues that "deviance is not a quality that lies in behavior itself, but in the interaction between the person who commits an act and those who respond to it."

Criminology books are on the First Floor of Library West with the call numbers HV (Criminology) and K (Law). (Click the image for a full map.)

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