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Criminology

Here are entered works on the discipline that studies the causes, detection and prevention of crime, and the treatment or punishment of criminals. Works on the occurrence of crime are entered under Crime. Works on the criminal justice system are entered under Criminal justice, Administration of.

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• Social sciences
• Crime

• Crime
• Criminals

• Criminology -- History
• Criminology -- Periodicals
• Criminology -- Research
• Criminology -- Study and teaching (Higher)
• Criminology -- United States
• Crime -- Sociological aspects
• Criminal statistics

• Crime -- Study and teaching

• Crime: Its Causes and Remedies (London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by Cesare Lombroso, trans. by Henry P. Horton, contrib. by Maurice Parmelee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Right Way to Do Wrong: An Exposé of Successful Criminals (Boston: H. Houdini, 1906), by Harry Houdini (page images at HathiTrust)

• Murder in America: A History (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Roger Lane (PDF at Ohio State)

• Annual Review of Criminology (partial serial archives)
• Radical Criminology: An Insurgent Journal (2012-) (full serial archives)
• Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (full serial archives)
• Archiv für Kriminologie (partial serial archives)
• Archiv für Kriminal-Anthropologie und Kriminalistik (full serial archives)
• Archivos de Criminología, Medicina Legal y Psiquiatría (in Spanish; 1902) (full serial archives)
• Archivos de Psiquiatría y Criminología (in Spanish; 1903-1913) (full serial archives)

• Droits et Voix: Rights and Voices (with articles in French and English; c2010), ed. by Véronique Strimelle and Françoise Vanhamme (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Droits et Voix: Rights and Voices (with articles in French and English; c2010), ed. by Véronique Strimelle and Françoise Vanhamme (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)

• Is a Crime Wave Coming? (GI Roundtable #3; 1946), by Thorsten Sellin (illustrated HTML at historians.org)

• Criminal Victimization Surveys in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia: A Comparison of 1972 and 1974 Findings (Washington: GPO, 1976), by United States National Criminal Justice Information and Statistics Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• State Court Sentencing of Convicted Felons, 1996 (Washingon: US Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000), by David J. Levin and Jodi M. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts: 2009 Update and Recent Developments (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2009), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• In Pursuit of Justice: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in the Federal Courts (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Richard B. Zabel and James J. Benjamin (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, by United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (HTML at Albany)
• Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals" (2 volumes; Washington: National Academies Press, 1986), ed. by Alfred Blumstein
  • Volume I: page images with commentary at NAP
  • Volume II: page images with commentary at NAP

• Federal Offenders in the United States District Courts (full serial archives)
• Federal Prisons, by United States Bureau of Prisons (full serial archives)

• The War on Marijuana in Black and White (with correction made Sep 2013; New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2013), by Ezekiel Edwards, Will Bunting, and Lynda Garcia (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)

• The Illinois Crime Survey (1929), by Illinois Association for Criminal Justice (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)

• Report of the City Council Committee on Crime of the City of Chicago (1915), by Chicago City Council Committee on Crime (PDF files at Northwestern)

• Criminal Sociology, by Enrico Ferri (Gutenberg text)

• Knowing About Genocide: Armenian Suffering and Epistemic Struggles (Oakland: University of California Press, c2021), by Joachim J. Savelsberg (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.com)

• Annual Report of Statistics of Criminal and Other Offences (Canada), by Canada Dominion Bureau of Statistics and Statistics Canada (partial serial archives)
• Annual Report of Criminal Statistics, by Canada Dominion Bureau of Statistics (partial serial archives)

• Victimisation in Tanzania: Surveys of Crime in Arusha, Dar es Salaam and Mtwara (2004), by Aki Stavrou and Jennifer O'Riordan (PDF files at issafrica.org)

• State Court Sentencing of Convicted Felons, 1996 (Washingon: US Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000), by David J. Levin and Jodi M. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Federal Prisons, by United States Bureau of Prisons (full serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Celebrated Crimes, by Alexandre Dumas (Gutenberg text)
• The Terrific Register: or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences and Calamities (2 volumes; London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co.; Edinburgh: Hunter, 1825) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Retributive Justice (1882), by Francis Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civilisation, Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays (newly enlarged and complete edition; London: G. Allen and Unwin, 1921), by Edward Carpenter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text
• Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty, by Lysander Spooner (HTML with commentary at mind-trek.com)

• The Criminal Imbecile: An Analysis of Three Remarkable Murder Cases (New York: Macmillan, 1915), by Henry Herbert Goddard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Major Barbara, with an Essay as First Aid to Critics (New York: Brentano's, 1920), by Bernard Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Romance of Real Life (3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1787), by Charlotte Smith, contrib. by François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Enquête Criminelle et les Méthodes Scientifiques (in French; Paris: E. Flammarion, 1920), by Edmond Locard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police until 1827 (Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart; Baltimore: Carey, Hart and Co., 1834), by Eugène François Vidocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Memoirs of Vidocq, the Head Chief of the French Police: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Bros., n.d.), by Eugène François Vidocq, illust. by George Cruikshank (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rising Crime and the Dismembered Family: How Conformist Intellectuals Have Campaigned Against Common Sense (c1993), by Norman Dennis (PDF at Civitas)
• The English Convict: A Statistical Study (1913), by Charles Goring (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Crime: From the Cradle to the Grave (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1908), by Hargrave Lee Adam
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries, by Charles E. Pearce (HTML with commentary at charlespearce.org)
• Unsolved Murder Mysteries (London, S. Paul and Co., c1924), by Charles E. Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15, second edition; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)
• Scenes from a Silent World: or Prisons and Their Inmates, by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)
• Crime and the Criminal Law: Reflections of a Magistrate and Social Scientist (Hamlyn Lectures, #15; London: Stevens and Sons, 1963), by Barbara Wootton (PDF in the UK)

• Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2021), by Peter Baldwin (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

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