Books are great sources for getting a big overview on a topic, like gun violence or police reform. Most books on criminology are located on the shelves in the call number range of HV 1 through HV 9960. Just ask a librarian to help you find them. You can also use URSUS and our eBook Databases to help find relevant books on your topic.
If we don't have a book here at USM or in the UMaine system, we can request it to be send from another library with InterLibrary Loan.
Sign-in through the MyUSM portal for access to thousands of eBooks via the URSUS catalog or via one of our eBook databases. In URSUS, students have access to books listing 'USM Access' or 'UM System-wide Access.'
These pdfs are free from the National Academies! To browse the Law and Justice titles, click here. (You will need to create an account to access the free ebooks.)
Chokehold by 
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime by 
How America got its guns: a history of the gun violence crisis
Sexual Crime and Prevention by 
Building a Black Criminology Volume 24 by 
