CJS-1001/4001 Criminal Justice Research

Historical Sources (Researching Cases Pre-1980)

See also Newspapers page of this Course Guide.

Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Many libraries, museums, and archives post digitized materials to this site.

U.S. National Archives & Records Administration: Law Enforcement and Investigations

Historical records filed with the National Archives by various federal agencies.

Hathitrust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

Crime Scene, Cleveland

A web exhibit from the Cleveland Memory Project of the Michael Schwartz Library at Cleveland State University.

Homicide in Chicago, 1870-1930

From the Northwestern University School of Law, the Chicago Historical Homicide Project began with the discovery of the availability of a rich log of more than 11,000 homicides maintained consistently and without interruption by the Chicago Police Department over the course of 60 years, from 1870 to 1930.

State Digital Resources: Memory Projects, etc.

From the Library of Congress, a compiiled state-by-state list of digital memory projects, online historical and cultural encyclopedias, etc.

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