Dictionary of Literary Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1978- . (Uris Ref PS 129 D55+; selected volumes in Olin Ref PS 129 D55+; also Library Gateway -- Networked Resources)
An ongoing set of volumes designed to provide biographic, bibliographic and critical material on major writers of America and Great Britain as well as some writers of Canada, France and Germany. Each volume is arranged alphabetically by the writers covered. There are numerous portraits and often there are appendices containing special information. A list of further reading concludes each volume. An index to all volumes appears at the end of each latest volume. Olin buys selected volumes.
Encyclopedia of American Social History. Cayton, Marx Kupiec, ed. 3 vols. 1992.
(OLIN REF HN 57 E56 1992; also Uris Ref)
This encyclopedia uses the scholarship of historians, sociologists, geographers and anthropologists to present a different view of American history. Focuses on various aspects of American social history, including periods of social change, patterns of everyday life, family history and science, medicine and technology.
Violence in America : an encyclopedia / Ronald Gottesman, editor in chief ; Richard Maxwell Brown, consulting editor. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, c1999.
(Uris Ref HN90.V5 V5474x 1999)
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Kadish, Sanford H., ed. Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. 4 vols. New York: Free, 1983.
(Uris Ref HV 6017 E56+ 1983; also Law Ref)
In four volumes this encyclopedia attempts "to draw together ... all that is known about criminal behavior and the response of society to it." (Preface) The individually written essays are interdisciplinary and cover a wide range of topics, from Deviance, Gambling, and Mayhem to Search and Seizure, War Crimes, and White Collar Crime. When a particular topic requires full and separate discussion from a variety of perspectives, the various perspectives are grouped together with the entry title (see Crime Causation). Articles include extensive bibliographies and numerous cross references. Volume four concludes with a glossary, a table of cases, a legal document index, and a general subject index.
Salzman, Jack, David Lionel Smith and Cornel West, eds. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. 5 vols. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1996. (Uris Ref E 185 E54 1996; also Africana)
The 2,200 entries in this set cover the beginning of the seventeenth to the end of the twentieth century. The entries include biographies, descriptions of events, historical eras, legal cases, areas of cultural achievement, professions, sports, and places. Each entry includes a list of references. Volume Five includes an appendix which provides extensive statistical information. Cross-references with in the entries make it easy to follow related topics.
Crime in the United States
[online] <http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm>
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