Criminal Studies Resources

Use these resources to find print books at OCtech and libraries across South Carolina.

As an OCtech student, you can also visit any academic library in south carolina and check out a book.

Use these  databases to find ebooks. You can search, save, or email, or print out any information from our ebooks. They will also provide the APA or MLA citation for  you.

Give some of these apps a try:

• The Police Accountability Project 

  "National Police Accountability Project (NPAP) is a 501(c)(3) organization and a project of the National Lawyers Guild, which was founded in 1937 as the first racially integrated national bar association. In 1999, NPAP was created as a non-profit to protect the human and civil rights of individuals in their encounters with law enforcement and detention facility personnel. The central mission of NPAP is to promote the accountability of law enforcement officers and their employers for violations of the Constitution and the laws of the United States." -https://www.nlg-npap.org/about-npap-justice/

• Public Accountability Project 

  "The Accountability Project curates, standardizes and indexes public data to give journalists, researchers and others a simple way to search across otherwise siloed records. Our collection includes 964.7 million public records so far." -https://publicaccountability.org/

• Murder Accountability Project 

  "The Murder Accountability Project is a nonprofit group organized in 2015 and dedicated to educate Americans on the importance of accurately accounting for unsolved homicides within the United States. We seek to obtain information from federal, state and local governments about unsolved homicides and to publish this information. The Project’s Board of Directors is composed of retired law enforcement investigators, investigative journalists, criminologists and other experts on various aspects of homicide." -http://www.murderdata.org/p/about.html

• Mapping Police Violence 

  "Use this tool to hold Police Chiefs and Mayors accountable for ending police violence in your city. The charts below use data from January, 2013 through December, 2017 to show which police departments are most - and least - likely to kill people. You can also compare police departments operating in jurisdictions with similar levels of crime to show that, even under similar circumstances, some police departments are much more likely to kill people than others. And after you've explored this tool, click here to learn about police violence in your state." -https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/compare-police-departments