Police Science
Library Subscription Services
The following source may be accessed through computers on campus or by current PVCC faculty, staff and students from off campus.
Journal Articles
Associates Program Source provides articles on the topics of law enforcement and related topics.
EBSCO provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles.
Reference Works
Ballistics
Blackmail and Bribery
Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources
Criminal Justice Collection
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities
Encyclopedia of Terrorism
Encyclopedia of White-Collar and Corporate Crime
InfoTrac Criminal Justice
Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources
World of Forensic Science
Internet Resources
Officer.com has links to police department Web sites in every state, information about employment and links to criminal justice information.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service has extensive information about criminal and juvenile justice. It is a collection of sources from the Department of Justice and other federal agencies. Look here for statistical information about school crime, alcohol-related offenses, and drug purchase and use patterns.
Federal Bureau of Investigation offers access to Uniform Crime Reports (statistical reports classified by type of crime), some current major investigations, a description of the FBI Academy and the FBI's most wanted list.
Uniform Crime Reports is a compilation of statistics available through the Social Sciences Data Center at UVa. This report provides arrest information by county for a variety of crimes using data from the U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation. Search parameters help narrow the data.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics presents criminal justice data from more than 100 sources. Topics include judicial processing of defendants, characteristics of persons arrested and public attitudes toward crime based on the results of polls by The Gallup Organization, Louis Harris and Associates and others.
Crime in Virginia, compiled by the Uniform Crime Reporting Section of the Department of State Police, provides and analyzes arrest and crime statistics in an incident based format.
Local Web Sites of Interest
Charlottesville Police Department reports local crime statistics.
