Digital library
Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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California Criminal Law 2026
Mark C Fields · El Camino College
In the contents: 01: Introduction to Criminal Law · 1.02: The History of Criminal Law · 1.05: Characteristics of a Criminal Prosecution
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Constitutional Law in the Criminal Justice System
Matthew L. Mac Kelly · Concordia University Wisconsin
In the contents: 1.02: Why the Law of Criminal Procedure Matters · 1.07: Scope of the Criminal Justice System
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Criminal Justice in the Urban Community
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 05: Class Race Gender and Criminal Justice- Understanding Disparities in the System · 9.01: Race in the United States Criminal Justice System · 9.02: Race Crime and the Pool of Surplus Criminality- Or Why the War on Drugs Was a War on Blacks
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Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
Burke et al. · Southern Oregon University
In the contents: 01: Crime Criminal Justice and Criminology · 1.01: Crime and the Criminal Justice System · 1.02: Deviance Rule Violations and Criminality
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Criminology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 2.01: Girls Women Criminality and Activism
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Criminal Justice
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 02: Justice and the Law · 2.01: Substantive Criminal Law · 2.07: Sources of Criminal Law
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Mental Disorders and the Criminal Justice System
Anne Nichol; Kendra Harding; Monica McKirdy · Open Oregon Educational Resources · 2025
This is an introductory textbook exploring the management and treatment of people with mental disorders throughout the criminal justice system.
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Introduction to Criminal Justice: Operations, Obstacles, and Outcomes
Indigo Koslicki · Indigo Koslicki · 2025
Introduction to Criminal Justice: Operations, Obstacles, and Outcomes is an Open Textbook that brings the foundations of the criminal justice system and current events and issues to an accessible format, where readers may interact with multimedia content in addition to traditional text.
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Introduction to Criminology
Shereen Hassan; Dan Lett; Leah Ballantyne · Kwantlen Polytechnic University · 2026
Although this open education resource (OER) is written with the needs and abilities of first-year undergraduate criminology students in mind, it is designed to be flexible. As a whole, the OER is amply broad to serve as the main textbook for an introductory course, yet each chapter is deep enough to be useful as a supplement for subject-area courses; authors use plain and accessible language as much as possible, but introduce more advanced, technical concepts where appropriate; the text gives due attention to the historical “canon” of mainstream criminological thought, but it also challenges many of these ideas by exploring alternative, critical, and marginalized perspectives. After all, criminology is more than just the study of crime and criminal law; it is an examination of the ways human societies construct, contest, and defend ideas about right and wrong, the meaning of justice, the purpose and power of laws, and the practical methods of responding to broken rules and of mending relationships. Special thanks to Leah Ballantyne, LLB LLM, a Cree lawyer from the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in Pukatawagan, Manitoba, who provided expert Indigenous consultation/editing for this textbook.
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Appearance and Behavior: A Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Salvador Jiménez Murguía · Taft College
In the contents: 7.06: Latino and Asian American Families and Immigration Law · 09: Government Law and Politics · 10.05: The Racialization of Crime and Deviance- Historical Foundations of Racial Criminalization
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Texas Government
Andrew Teas, Kevin Jefferies, Mark W. Shomaker, Penny L. Watson, and Terry Gilmour · Houston Community College, Alvin Community College, and Midland College
In the contents: 7.05: How a Bill Becomes a Law in Texas · 09: The Evolution of the Law in Texas · 9.01: Types of Law and Jurisdiction
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Texas Government
Lumen Learning · LibreTexts
In the contents: 7.08: How A Bill Becomes a Law in Texas · 9.01: Sources of law · 9.02: Types of Law and Jurisdiction
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Sociology
Boundless · LibreTexts
In the contents: 7.5B: Class Crime and the Criminal Justice System · 7.5D: The Law as an Instrument of Oppression · 9.5H: Crime and Criminal Justice
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Attenuated Democracy
David Hubert · Salt Lake Community College
In the contents: 10.04: Chapter 65- The Law and Politics of Religious Freedom · 10.05: Chapter 66- The Individual and the Criminal Justice System
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Introduction to Sociology
Lumen Learning · Lumen Learning
In the contents: 9.09: Introduction to Crime and The Law · 9.10: The Criminal Justice System · 9.11: Criminal Activity
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Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities
Alexander Lautensach and Sabina Lautensach · BC Campus
In the contents: 06: Human Security in the Context of International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law · 18.2: Modern International Law · 18.3: Making International Law
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Mental Disorders and the Criminal Justice System
Anne Nichol · Portland Community College
In the contents: 02: Mental Disorders in the Criminal Justice System · 3.02: Overview of Federal Disability Law · 3.04: The ADA in the Criminal Justice System
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American Vibe Check
Jeffrey Kroll · Waukesha County Technical College
In the contents: 6.04: Crime and the Law · 19.05: The Criminal Justice System
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Introduction to Sociology
John E. Glass · Collin College
In the contents: 7.1.5B: Class Crime and the Criminal Justice System · 7.1.5D: The Law as an Instrument of Oppression · 8.1.5H: Crime and Criminal Justice
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AP US Government and Politics
Nina Sprouse · Mizzou Academy
In the contents: 6.04: The Law and Politics of Religious Freedom · 6.05: The Individual and the Criminal Justice System