Reference Books

The following list is a selection of encyclopedias and handbooks that have proven very helpful to students in the past. All print sources are shelved in the Reference Area:

1. Cybercrime: a Reference Handbook

Authors: Bernadette H. Schell and Clemens Martin
Publisher: ABC CLIO
Call Number: Ref. HV 6773. S3547 2004

This handbook “examines many forms of computer exploits … from the Hacking Prehistory Era before 1969 through the present” including cracking, piracy, phreaking, cyberstalking, cyberpornography and cyberterrorism. (Preface, xi)

2. Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice

Editor: Joshua Dressler
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Call number: Ref. HV 6017. E52 2002

Contains over 250 entries of varying lengths, covering “all that is known about criminal behavior” (Foreword, vii).

3. Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment

Editor: David Levinson
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc.
Call number: Ref. HV 6017. E524 2002

Provides readers “with a comprehensive, authoritative and twenty-first century reference resource on crime and punishment” (Preface, xxxi)

4. Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol & Addictive Behavior

Editor: Rosalyn Carson - De Witt
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Call number: Ref. HV 5804. E53 2001

It’s “an amazing compendium of information on the effects of addictions at every level” (Preface, x)

5 . Encyclopedia of Rape

Editor: Merril D. Smith
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Call number: Ref. HV 6558. E53 2004

“This book takes a new approach to the examination and understanding of an old problem: rape. The subject of rape encompasses much more than the actual physical act. There are the people involved; times and places in which rapes have taken other cultural depictions of rape; and social and political events concerning it” (Preface, vii).

6. Encyclopedia of Terrorism

Editor: Harvey W. Kushner
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Call number: Ref. HV 6431. K883 2003

“Provides detailed discussions of the who, what, where, when, and why of terrorism, including the September 11 attacks and their ramifications” (Preface, xxxi).

7. Encyclopedia of White – Collar & Corporate Crime

Editor: Lawrence M. Salinger
Publisher: SAGE Reference Publication
Call number: Ref. HV 6768. E63 2003

“This reference… is edited to incorporate information about a variety of white-collar crimes, and provides examples of persons, statutes, companies, and convictions” (Introduction, x)

8. Encyclopedia of Women and Crime

Editor: Nicole Hahn Rafter
Publisher: Oryx Press
Call number: Ref. HV 6046. E56 2000

“Covering women as offenders, victims, criminologists, criminal layers, reformers, and workers in the criminal justice system, it brings together – in one volume – information developed in widely separated places and published in diverse sources since the late 1960s” (Preface, xxv)

9. Violence in America: an Encyclopedia

Editor: Ronald Gottesman
Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons
Call number: Ref. HV 90. V5 V5474 1999

This book “attempted to surround American violence, not to oblige it to yield an essence but rather to expose the multifaceted nature of the subject of our explorations. For the purpose of this encyclopedia, violence is broadly construed to include injury, or threat of injury, inflicted by one or more people on human beings, other species, the natural environment, or property” (Preface, xiii).