Major Idea is a new series we're doing this year to highlight topics within disciplines as a way to introduce different majors. Find the display at the beginning of the Reference section of books.

If you're interested in learning about the major, talk to one of the Los Banos Campus' academic counselors. Learn about careers in that major from the Los Banos Campus' career counselor.

Selected Resources

Non-fiction

364 TAK Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Crime and Criminology (2013) edited by Thomas J. Hickey and Thomas Devaney

364.098 CRI Criminal Justice (2013) edited by Noël Merino

364.3 SAM Inside the Criminal Mind (2004) by Stanton E. Samenow

364.36 JUV Juvenile Delinquency: Prevention, Assessment, and Intervention (2005) edited by Kirk Heilburn, Naomi E. Sevin Goldstein, and Richard E. Redding

364.973 CRI Crime and Criminals (2010) edited by Christina Fisanick

365 PRI Prisons (2010) edited by Sylvia Engdahl

Databases

Academic Search Premier (through EBSCOhost)

CQ Researcher

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

OmniFile Full Text Select

Websites

City of Los Banos Police Department

Merced County Probation Office

Merced County Sheriff's Office

The Superior Court of CA, County of Merced

CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

National Institute of Justice

Office of Justice Programs

U.S. Department of Justice