Criminology

Policy Last Updated: January 1, 2010

Purpose

The Collection Development policy is a used as a guide to shape relevant collections and to ensure consistency in collection development. The decision to purchase library materials is primarily the responsibility of the Collections Librarian in consultation with faculty in the Department.

This policy has been developed by Michael Skelton, the Collections Librarian, in cooperation with and endorsed by Lauren Eisler, the Department Faculty Library Liaison and the Department Chair.

Focus

To support teaching, study and research up to the Honours B.A. and M.A. levels. As program offerings generally reflect faculty areas of competence, the collection also supports faculty research interests.

Scope

Language: primarily English language materials are collected.
Place of Publication: priority is given to materials from Canadian or American publishers followed by British and European publishers.
Dates of Publication: emphasis of ongoing purchases is on current publications.
Chronological Period: coverage is from the 19th Century forward.
Geographical Areas: priority is given to works with a North American focus, with secondary emphasis on British and European matters.
Publishers: works from scholarly and academic publishers are emphasized

Types, formats, and readership of materials collected

Materials with academic-level readership are selected.
Web-based formats for reference sources, journals and indexing sources are preferred. Print and microform are considered for reason of cost, availability, expected use or long term access.
Single copies of books in print formats are generally selected. Web-based formats are selected on a title by title basis, especially if the title is of interest to users at multiple Laurier campuses. Duplication of print across Laurier campuses 2 is generally avoided.
Excluded types include textbooks, abridgements, study aids, limited editions, works by vanity presses, reprints and partial contents (eg. single issues of journals, electronic versions of single chapters of books).

Subjects collected and collecting priorities

Collecting priorities are categorized into 3 levels:

A - highest emphasis

The collection includes major published materials required to support the core teaching and research at the highest degree level offered by the Department.

B - secondary emphasis

The collection includes a selection of materials to complement the discipline as a whole, although it may not be a primary focus for courses.

C - selective emphasis

Materials, including reference materials and basic journals and indexes are collected to introduce and define an area.

Subjects collected	Classification	Collecting priority
International perspectives on injustice	HM146	A
War on drugs	HV5840 (Canada); HV5825 (US)	B
Collected works (nonserial)	HV6015 - HV6016	B
Theory and methodology	HV6018	A
Critical criminology	HV6019	A
History of the science
General works	HV6021	C
By region or country	HV6022	C
Biographies (criminologists)	HV6023	C
Communications in criminology
General works	HV6023.5	A
Information services	HV6023.6	B
Computer network resources (including the internet)	HV6023.8	B
Criminology
General works, treatises. (English)	HV6025	C
Criminal anthropology
General works	HV6035	C
English	HV6036	C
Criminal types
General works	HV6045	A
Female offenders	HV6046	A
Habitual criminals, recidivists	HV6049	A
Delinquent women, female offenders	HV6557; HV6517; HV8738	A
Criminal anthropometry
General works	HV6065	C
Special, Bertillon method, general works	HV6068	C
Photography of criminals	HV6071; TR822	C
Finger prints	HV6074	C
Criminal psychology	RC451.4; P68 (criminal psychiatry)	A
General works	HV6080	B
Criminal responsibility	HV6083	A
Prison psychology	HV6089	B
Examination of exceptional criminals	HV6112 - HV6113	B
Causes of crime, criminal etiology	HV6115 - HV6190	A
Victims of crime, victimology	HV6250.2 - 6250.4; Y68	A
Criminal ethnography (general - by race - Indians - North America)	HV6194; E98 C87	A
Crimes and offences
General works	HV6251	A
Offenses against the environment	HV6401 - HV6405	A
Crimes against the person (general works)	HV6493	B
Homicide, murder, etc.
Collected works	HV6499	B
History (general works)	HV6505	B
History (modern general works)	HV6511	A
History (19th - 20th century)	HV6513	A
General works	HV6515	B
Woman murderers (including woman serial murderers)	HV6517 - HV6535	A
Sex crimes	HV6556 - HV6593	B
Ritual abuse	HV6625.5	B
Crimes against property	HV6638 - HV6700	B
Offenses against public morals	HQ 101+ (prostitution); HV5001+ (alcoholism, tobacco, drug habits)	B
Ritual abuse	HV6625.5	C
Domestic violence	HV6626	A
General works	HV6705	B
Gambling	HV6708 - HV6727; GV1247; GV1301+; HG4626; HG6001+	B
Commercial crimes, financial crimes (including white collar crimes)	HV6763 - HV6773.55	A
Crimes and criminal classes
History (general works)	HV6779	A
History (early)	HV6781	B
History (19th - 20th century)	HV6783	A
General works	HV6789	C
By region or country	HV6801 - HV7220.5	C
Criminal justice administration
Collections of monographs, essays, etc...	HV7405 - HV7407	A
Communication of information	HV7412 - HV7412.4	B
General works	HV7419	A
Police, detectives, constabulary
History (general works)	HV7903	C
History (early through 1800)	HV7906	C
History (1801 - )	HV7909	A
Community policing	HV7936; C83	A
Police misconduct (corruption)	HV7936 C85	A
Racial profiling	HV7936 HV8141	A
Policy duty, methods of protection
General works	HV8031	C
Investigations of crimes, examination and identification of prisoners
General works (includes geographic profiling)	HV8073	C
Identification of documents, proof of handwriting	HV8074 - HV8076	C
Identification of other objects		C
Bloodstain patterns (blood stain analysis)	HV8077.5 B56; RA1061	C
Clothing	HV8077.5 C6	C
Footprints, footwear impressions	HV8077.5 F6
Glass	HV8077.5 G55	C
Hair	HV8077.5 H34	C
Investigation and detection of special crimes	HV8079	B
Police
General works, history and description (early)	HV8135	B
General works, history and description (19th - 20th century)	HV8138	A
By regions or countries (other than the United States)	HV8157 - HV8280.7	C
Penology, prisons, corrections, and documents
United States	HV8311 - HV8395	B
Other regions or countries	HV8395 - HV8480	B
Collected works, general	HV8491	A
History of penal science	HV8497 - HV8532	A
Forms of punishment (early)	HV8545 - HV8654	A
Forms of punishment (modern)	HV8693 - HV8749	A
Prison methods and practice	HV8751	A
Prison reform
Congresses (international)	HV7243	A
Collections (international)	HV8971	A
History of the movement	HV8975	A
Reform literature (early through 1850)	HV8980	B
Reform literature (1851 - )	HV8980	B
Juvenile offenders, juvenile delinquency, reform schools, etc...	HV9051 - HV9230.7	A
Offender rehabilitation	HV 9272 – HV 9276; HV 9304; HV9307 – HV 9210 (Canada); HV 9303 – HV 9306 (US)	A
Rehabilitation - methods of assistance	HV9281 - HV9288	A
Prison industrial complex	HV 9501 – HV9510 (Canada); HV 9471 – HV 9473 (US)	A
Justice, equality before the law (restorative justice)	JC578	A
Legal / political corruption	JF1081; JF1525 C66	B
History of law	K140 - K165	A
Administration of justice, organization of the judiciary system	K2100	B
Judicial error (wrongful conviction)	K5560 (US); KE9440 (Canada)	A
Criminal law and procedure	KB3790 - KB4855	A
Prosecutorial misconduct	KD8045	A
Informants	KE8468 (Canada); KF9665 (US)	B
Jurisprudence	KF213	A
False confessions	KF9664	B
Forfeiture	KF9747	C
Legal ethics	KK8004; KD479 - KD482	A
International criminal courts and tribunals	KZ6304 - KZ6332	A
Mass media and criminal justice	P96 C 74P96 C742	A
Crime in mass media	PN4784 C8	A
Junk science	Q175.37	C
Recovered memory syndrome	RC455.2	A
Sex offenders - rehabilitation treatment	RC560; HV6556	A
Substance abuse - offender treatment	RC564	A
Violent offender - treatment	RC569.6 V55	A

Consortial purchases with the TriUniversity Group of Libraries (Guelph, Waterloo, Laurier university libraries), with the Ontario Council of University Libraries, and on a national level, are pursued.

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criminology-collection-policy-2010.pdf