The Online Books Page

Social problems -- United States -- Public opinion

See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.

• Social problems -- United States
• Public opinion

• White Hats: People Who are Trying to Make a Difference, ed. by Margaret Bohannon-Kaplan (HTML at Wayback Machine)

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

• Makeover Nation: the United States of Reinvention (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Toby Miller (PDF at Ohio State)
• America's Social Revolution (c2001), by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• A Preface to Politics (Ann Arbor Paperbacks edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962), by Walter Lippmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Preface to Politics (New York and London: M. Kennerley, 1914), by Walter Lippmann (Gutenberg text)
• The Prophetic Tradition and Radical Rhetoric in America (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by James Francis Darsey (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• On Which Side Are You, "Masters of Culture"? (Moscow: International Press, 1932), by Maksim Gorky (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Joe Worker and the Story of Labor (New York: National Labor Service, ca. 1948), by Nathan Schachner and Jack Alderman
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Economic Justice for All: Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy (1986), by National Conference of Catholic Bishops (PDF at usccb.org)

• The Dawn, ed. by William Dwight Porter Bliss (partial serial archives)

• The Catholic Agitator (partial serial archives)

• Miracles in the Slums: or, Thrilling Stories of Those Rescued from the Cesspools of Iniquity, and Touching Incidents in the Lives of the Unfortunate (Chicago: Seth Cook Rees, c1905), by Seth Cook Rees (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Improvement and Reform of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in the United States: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Crime, House of Representatives, Ninety-First Congress, First Session, Pursuant to H. Res. 17 (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Select Committee on Crime (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and the Community (originally published 1938; this edition New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1963), by Frank Tannenbaum, contrib. by Morris Ploscowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Age of Crime (New York: Mohawk Press, 1931), by Arthur B. Reeve (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes (New York: G. W. Carleton, 1884), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• America's Social Revolution (c2001), by Melanie Phillips (PDF at Civitas)
• Is a Crime Wave Coming? (1946), by Thorsten Sellin (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• The Giant Killers (New York: R.M. McBride, c1945), by Alan Hynd (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States Criminal Calendar, or An Awful Warning to the Youth of America: Being an Account of the Most Horrid Murders, Piraces, Highway Robberies, &c. &c. (Boston: C. Gaylord, 1840), ed. by Henry St. Clair (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)
• Courts and Criminals, by Arthur Train (Gutenberg text)
• True Detective Stories, From the Archives of the Pinkertons (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1897), by Cleveland Moffett
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Adventures of a United States Detective: A Series of Interesting Sketches Illustrating the Operations of the Whisky Ring in Their Evasions of the Law and Its Penalties (Philadelphia: Souder, 1876), by James J. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Powers That Prey (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1900), by Josiah Flynt and Alfred Hodder (multiple formats at archive.org)

• FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, ed. by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (full serial archives)
• The Illustrated Police News (partial serial archives)

• The Use of Computers to Transmit Material Inciting Crime: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on the Use of Computers to Transmit Material That Incites Crime and Constitutes Interstate Transmission of Implicit Obscene Matter, June 11, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World (c1998), by Julian Dibbell (PDF with commentary at lulu.com)
• The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling (Gutenberg text)

• Hearings Regarding H.R. 15678, H.R. 15689, H.R. 15744, H.R. 15754, and H.R. 16099, Bills to Curb Terrorist Organizations (Washington: GPO, 1966), by United States House Committee on Un-American Activities (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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

• Hate Crime: The Violence of Intolerance (special CRS Bulletin; 2001), by United States Community Relations Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hate Crimes on Campus: The Problem and Efforts to Confront It (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2001), by Stephen Wessler and Margaret Moss
  • PDF and text at ojp.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Needs and Prospects for Crime-Fighting Technology: The Federal Role in Assisting State and Local Law Enforcement, by William Schwabe (PDF files at rand.org)

• Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in Our Free Country, by Peter McWilliams (HTML at drugsense.org)

• Criminal Prohibitions on Leaks and Other Disclosures of Classified Defense Information (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2017), by Stephen P. Mulligan and Jennifer Elsea (PDF at fas.org)
• The Complete Works of Edward Livingston on Criminal Jurisprudence: Consisting of Systems of Penal Law for the State of Louisiana and for the United States of America, With the Introductory Reports to the Same (2 volumes; New York: National Prison Association of the United States of America, 1873), by Edward Livingston, contrib. by Salmon P. Chase (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

• The I. W. W., an Auxiliary of the German Espionage System: History of the I. W. W. Anti-War Activities, Showing How the I. W. W. Program of Sabotage Inspired the Kaiser's Agents in America (1918), by T. Everett Harré, contrib. by Ralph M. Easley (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review (2004), by National Research Council Committee to Improve Research Information and Data on Firearms, ed. by Charles F. Wellford, John Pepper, and Carol Petrie (HTML and page images at NAP)
• Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), ed. by Daniel W. Webster and Jon S. Vernick, contrib. by Michael Bloomberg (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Following the Gun: Enforcing Federal Laws Against Firearms Traffickers (2000), by United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Project Safe Neighborhoods: America's Network Against Gun Violence (2004), by United States Bureau of Justice Assistance (page images at HathiTrust)

• Settlement Houses and the Great Depression (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1975), by Judith Ann Trolander (page images at Cornell)
• Changing Places: How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color (Berkeley and Los Angeles: BerkeleyLaw, c2010), ed. by Christopher F. Edley and Jorge Ruiz-de-Velasco (PDF with commentary at boysandmenofcolor.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.