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Sociology and Criminology & Justice Studies Research Guide

Sociology and Criminology & Justice Studies Research Guide

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Use these browsing guides to locate Sociology, Social Justice, and Criminology & Justice Studies books and journals in the HSU Library (2nd floor):

H                           SOCIAL SCIENCES (GENERAL)
HM SOCIOLOGY (GENERAL)
HM 481-554    Theory. Methods.
HM 661-696 Social control
HM 811-821 Deviant behavior. Social deviance
HN    SOCIAL HISTORY AND CONDITIONS. SOCIAL PROBLEMS
HT COMMUNITIES. CLASSES. RACES
HT 101-395 Urban groups. Urban sociology
HT 401-485 Rural groups. Rural sociology
HT 601-1445 Social classes
HV SOCIAL PATHOLOGY. SOCIAL AND PUBLIC WELFARE
HV 640-645 Refugee problems
HV 3176-3199 Special classes by race or ethnic group
HV 4005-4013 Immigrants
HV 4023-4470 Poor in cities. Slums
HV 5001-5720 Alcoholism
HV 5800-5840 Drug habits. Drug abuse
HQ THE FAMILY. MARRIAGE. WOMEN
HQ 12-449 Sexuality and sexual life
HQ 1088-1090 Men
HQ 1101-2030 Women. Feminism
HV                            SOCIAL PATHOLOGY (GENERAL)
HV 6001-7220 Criminology                  
HV 6035-6197      Criminal anthropology
HV 6201-6249      Criminal classes
HV 6250-6250.4      Victims of crime
HV 6251-6773      Crimes and offenses
HV 6774-7220      Crimes, criminal classes
HV 7231-9960 Criminal justice administration
HV 7428      Social work with criminals
HV 7431      Prevention of crime, methods
HV 7435-7439      Gun control
HV 7551-8280      Police. Detectives, etc.
HV 8290-8291      Private security services
HV 8301-9920      Penology. Prison. Corrections

 

In addition, other topics related to Sociology, Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Social Justice are located as follows:

E  Race and multiculturalism in U.S. history
E 75-99 Native Americans
E 184-185 Race, ethnicity, identity in the United States; also, Latinos, Chicanos, Asian Americans, African Americans in the United States
F 1201-3799 Latin American history
HN                    Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
 HN 58-90 Sociology of power; power elite
HQ 1101-2030 Women and feminism
J  Political science (General)
K 366-380         Sociology of law

 

Books

These are some examples of print and e-books on various historical topics in the HSU Library. For additional help, please visit the Research Help Desk or Contact the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Librarian:

 

How to Read a Call Number

Books at HSU are organized by the Library of Congress Classification System. This means that the books are grouped by broad subjects alphabetically and numerically within a subject. This system helps you locate books on those topics by keeping them all together. Each book has it's own call number to help you find it in the broader subject and can also be given a more specific topic within the broad subject. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE Title: The Encyclopedia of Arthurian Literature. Call Number: DA 152.5 A7 C64 1992. This book has a subject of History with a sub-class of Great Britain (DA) and second sub-class of Early and medieval to 1485 (152.5). HOW TO READ A CALL NUMBER The first letters represent the broad subject (DA), The first set of numbers identify a more specific topic of a subject (152.5) The second set of letter/number combinations represents the author or the title of the book (A7 C64) and the last number is the year published (1992)

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