Collins Memorial Library: Crime, Law, and Justice Studies: Home

Crime, Law, and Justice Studies @ Collins Library

This research subject guide is intended for students taking courses in Crime, Law, and Justice Studies at the University of Puget Sound. It suggests specific research strategies and provides links to a range of resources that are relevant to study and inquiry in this interdisciplinary field.

Getting Started leads you to suggested background sources for an overview of your topic.
Primary Sources lists collections of primary resources related to Crime, Law, and Justice Studies.
Books & Media highlights current books, e-books, Primo, and films.
Articles highlights important research databases.
Writing & Citing provides information about style manuals and citation management tools.

CLJ Program Information

Learn more about Crime, Law, and Justice Studies at the University of Puget Sound by visiting the Crime, Law, and Justice Studies program website!

You'll find out information about this new program, requirements for the minor, current courses being offered, and information about the faculty.

You may also like to learn more about the Freedom Education Project Puget Sound (FEPPS).

Highlighted Resources

Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time by James Kilgore
Call Number: Click title for online access.
Publication Date: 2015
Understanding Mass Incarceration offers a comprehensive overview of the incarceration apparatus put in place by the world's largest jailer: the USA.

Prison Policy Initiative
This advocacy organization gathers data at both the state and national levels and produces deeply researched reports on the extent and impacts of mass incarceration.
Inquest: A Decarceral Brainstorm
An open access journal deeply engaged with ending mass incarceration.
Mass Incarceration: A Syllabus (JSTOR Daily)
This selection of stories focuses on prison and mass incarceration in the United States, which has the highest rate of imprisonment in the world.
The Prison Industry: How It Started, How It Works, How It Harms (Worth Rises)
Worth Rises is an advocacy organization "dedicated to dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it touches." The linked report was published in 2020.