Criminal Studies Resources
Contact Information
Library Hours
Monday - Thursday: 8:00am-6:00pm
Friday: 8:00am-1:30pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed
Contact the Library
Email: library@octech.edu
Phone: (803) 535-1262
Location: Building B, 2nd Floor
For free research consultations with a librarian, use this link:
or contact the library at library@octech.edu
Some Resource Highlights
- This American Life Episode 288: Not What I MeantStories about communication that simply goes wrong. If you don't have time for the full episode, try to make time for the first half hour- it's one of those special stories that is both hilarious and disturbing at the same time, and can impact your world view in a startling way.
Library Resources
These databases are probably your best place to start
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new windowA database that covers topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowProvides information in nearly every area of academic study, including arts, biology, chemistry, computer sciences, ethnic studies, engineering, language and linguistics, literature, medical sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, social sciences, and more.
- Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new windowA full-text database that offers students with a series of comprehensive essays with point and counterpoint arguments related to current issues in the news.
- Applied Science and Technology Full Text This link opens in a new windowA foundational research database providing access to full-text journals covering a wide variety of STEM disciplines.
- Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new windowA full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government. It is designed to offer current news to military members, analysts, policy makers, students and researchers.
Additional databases that could be useful:
- SIRS (Social Issues Resources) This link opens in a new windowUse SIRS Issues Researcher to locate articles about controversial issues selected from newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. It features information about a variety of social, scientific, health, historic, economic, business, and political issues from around the world.
- Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowA collection of eBooks ranging across all academic subjects. eBook Central gives students and faculty seamless and immediate access to the eBooks they need.
- EBSCO Academic Collection This link opens in a new windowA collection of multidisciplinary eBooks representing a wide range of academic subjects.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowStreaming service providing academic, career-related, and educational videos. Contains a large collection of videos covering a wide range of academic topics.
- Hoopla This link opens in a new windowHoopla is allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, eBooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV!
- Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new windowA resource which covers current controversial social subjects, with articles that offer informed, differing views on both sides of each issue. Includes, reference articles, infographics, news articles, images, video, audio, and more.
Use these resources to find print books at OCtech and libraries across South Carolina.
- Online Catalog (Books)Find books, ebooks, dvds, and videos to stream
- PASCAL DeliversRequest print books from any academic library in South Carolina and receive them in just a few days.
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.
- Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowA collection of eBooks ranging across all academic subjects. eBook Central gives students and faculty seamless and immediate access to the eBooks they need.
- EBSCO Academic Collection This link opens in a new windowA collection of multidisciplinary eBooks representing a wide range of academic subjects.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full text of hundreds of highly regarded and popular titles. And Credo brings the facts alive with images, sound files, animations, and much more. Find speedy, simple answers and authoritative, in-depth articles.
- Oxford UPSO Psychology This link opens in a new window335 scholarly quality scholarly ebooks on the subject of psychology.
- Salem Press This link opens in a new windowReference books covering health, literature, and history.
- TumbleBooksLibrary This link opens in a new windowAnimated talking picture books, chapter books, videos, non-fiction titles, playlists, non-English books, graphic novels and math stories. There is also a rich collection of resources for educators.
Give some of these apps a try:
- Ban Human Trafficking App"This mobile Application was produced with the aim to educate the users about the issue of human trafficking and prevention of this type of crime. By playing this interactive game, the users will be able to get acquainted with different types and stages of trafficking in human beings, from recruitment, exploitation and escape from the trafficking ring, down to recovery, social reintegration, and struggle to exercise the rights belonging to human trafficking victims.
Having been acquainted with potential dangers, the users will be able to recognize similar situations in everyday life, and thus protect themselves and the people they know.
Furthermore, better understanding of the experiences of human trafficking victims should contribute to combating discrimination and improving the position of human trafficking victims in European countries.
Mobile Application is produced within the project Balkans ACT Now! which is funded by the European Union.
Copyrights holder: Balkans ACT Now! Project team
Application version: 1.0
Design and development: Intellex Ltd.
Illustrations: Bojan Radovanovic
Texts: ASTRA – Anti Trafficking Action" -website - Slavery Footprint App"With the Made in a Free World app, you can check in at stores, asking brands about slavery in their supply chain as you shop. Please use it to encourage brands to look into where their raw materials are coming from. Then share your check-ins so your friends will also help. Earn Free World points when you get the app and use it to counteract your slavery footprint." -Slaveryfootprint website
- Fight the New DrugFight the New Drug “TraffickCam”: This App Helps You Fight Sex Trafficking While You TravelArticle published JANUARY 19, 2018
An in-depth explanation of how an app can help you fight human trafficking simply by taking a picture of a hotel room when you are travelling.
- Murder Accountability ProjectThis is basically a citizen-science approach to crime resolution. This project tracks unsolved homicides in America, and has a lot of great data and resources.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics"BJS mission:
To collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded."- https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=abu
- 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
- Federal Bureau of InvestigationResources for career research, as well as information on all aspects/services offered by the FBI to the public and specifically to law enforcement agencies.
- JCS- Criminal Psychology"Forensic Psychology, True Crime, & Social Science Channel."
