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Criminology

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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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