HV6787.S68, Social Sciences Service Desk, 1st Floor Central Pattee, Room 105 Previous issues, Central Pattee Level 7 Yellow. This standard reference tool for criminal justice research contains a wide array of statistical information about crime and criminal justice in the United States. The data is presented in over 600 pages of tables. All of the data is national in scope, with displays of regional, state and city data included where possible. An important criteria for inclusion in the Sourcebook is that the data must be collected and reported using sound methodology.
Careful annotations show the sources of data for each table for further study.
An appendix provides a complete and annotated listing of sources with full bibliographic references. New issues are produced annually. This one volume handbook provides a statistical summary of the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Around 1400 tables are annotated with sources of the data - detailed information about the sources is given in an appendix. The tables are arranged under 30 topical sections.