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Useful Government Document Titles





Date: 23 Mar 1993 02:12:45 -0500

Organization: Deep Thirteen, Gizmonics Institute

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Trolling through the Government Documents section here at Tech the other

day. The hard way, walking down and looking for interesting volumes

instead of searching for keywords in the online database. I prefer the

raw data sometimes instead a filtered summary eh?



Anway, take a look for the yearly volumes of:



Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1991

(our library is under the budget knife, no 1992 :-( )

our call number here was J29.9/6:991



cover page showed ordering info:

Superintendent of Documents

US Government Printing Office

Washington, DC 20402

Stock No. 027-000-01343-1

ISBN No. 0-16040397-0



This is a very thick and complete set of surveys on *many* topics.

Such surveys as asking a target group of college freshmen for example

if they thought homosexual activity should be illegal, answer was surprisingly

high on the YES side I thought. Also the stat's on self-defense Kleck refers

to, murder, etc are in there. I'm really impressed with this stuff

compared to the FBI UCR, which now looks incredibly thin by comparison.

This is the "BJS" you will se references to.

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Another book:

Our call # J 1.96: F33

Report to the Attorney General on Systems for Indentifying Felons Who

	Attempt to Purchase Firearms.

October 1989

Task Force on Felon Identification in Firearms Sales



Interesting analysis of costs and benefits of several levels of

background checks.

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There was a very odd short book by DOJ called I

think "Myths about Crime". It is way out of date, but the

1-page format with Statement of Myth, followed by a refutation

with cites was very good. Wish it had been updated.



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