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Government Documents Index
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Government Documents on Criminal Justice The U.S. Government is a major producer of criminal justice
information and statistics. Most federal criminal justice
publications are produced by various divisions of the Justice Department. Other federal agencies, though, also produce publications
useful to criminal justice students and scholars. Subject
headings you may want to use to search for government documents
in the Library Catalog include:
Crime--United
States
Criminal
Investigation--United States
Criminal
Statistics--United States
Prisons--Law
and Legislation--United States
Victims
of Crimes--United States--Statistics
The principal U.S. Government publications index is the Monthly Catalog
of U.S. Government Publications HSSE REF & Periodicals
016.353 Un36 which is also available online from 1994-present.
The GPO
Index covering 1976-present is another useful index
to
U.S. Government
publications. Congressional Information
Service (CIS) Index HSSE REF 328.73005 C76 is a
useful source for congressional and legislative criminal
justice information. Additional indexes
for researching historical government publications on this
subject include CIS Index to the U.S. Congressional
Serial Set 1789-1969 HSSE REF 328.73 C71c, CIS
Index to Executive Branch Documents 1789-1909 HSSE
REF 351.73 C497 1990, and
CIS Index to Executive Branch Documents 1910-1932 HSSE
REF 351.73 C497 1996.
The following Justice Department publications are located
in HSSE Library.
Other Federal Criminal Justice Information Sources
Indiana State Criminal Justice Documents
Internet Sources
Significant amounts of government criminal justice information
can be found on the Internet. Links to a wide variety of
government
Internet sites can be found at the Gov Docs homepage www.lib.purdue.edu/govdocs/ . GPO
Access a good
source for current and recent legislative, legal, and regulatory
information
such as congressional bills,
legislation
status information, the Federal Register, and other materials.
Additional federal government sites include:
Indiana Government Criminal Justice Web Sites
Selected International and Foreign
Sources
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