LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Open Educational Resources

Criminal Justice

This is a collection of openly licensed or free textbooks and materials that can be used to enhance teaching and learning. This page highlights some of the Open Educational Resources (OER) available, but this is by no means an exhaustive list. If you would like to learn more about OER please visit the Open Educational Resources and Textbook Affordability Library Guide.

Criminal Justice Textbooks

Criminal Law This textbook deals with criminal law and defense. It is setup in a way that makes it easy for individuals studying the subject to understand the complexities and issues involved in the discipline.
Ethics in Law Enforcement Open textbook that explores the moral and ethical questions in law enforcement.
Introduction to Criminal Investigation: Processes, Practices and Thinking Open textbook that segments the process of learning criminal investigation. This resource is well thought out and is written by a professional investigator and an academic in the discipline.
Introduction to the American Justice System This is a textbook the deals in depth with criminology and the criminal justice system. Put together by a selection of professors in the discipline it covers multiple aspects of the subject.
Introduction to Criminal Justice This Grants Collection for Introduction to Criminal Justice was created under a Round Ten ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials
Fundamental Cases in Criminal Justice This text provides edited and abridged cases that are intended to be easy to read and provide lower-division students with a gentle introduction to key legal concepts that define the workings of our criminal justice system.
Criminal Justice: An Overview of the System This text is designed as a first course in criminal justice. It covers police, courts, and corrections, integrating the juvenile justice system.
Criminal Justice Research Methods This Grants Collection for Criminal Justice Research Methods was created under a Round Four ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials
Open Textbook Library - Criminal Justice Textbooks A list of criminal justice textbooks from the Open Textbook Library, a comprehensive referatory that points to open textbooks by a variety of authors and publishers.
Pressbooks Directory - Criminal Justice Textbooks A list of criminal justice textbooks from The Pressbooks Directory, a repository of online resources created using the Pressbooks Authoring and Editing software.

Criminal Justice Resources

UMGC Criminal Justice Open Educational Resource List A Word table that includes a selection of OERs that deal with the topic of criminal justice.
Bureau of Justice Statistics Government website with statistics and other information dealing with crime and criminal justice.
OER Commons - Criminal Justice Full Courses Criminal Justice resources from OER Commons, a public digital library of open educational resources.
EdX Courses - Criminal Justice Set of open access criminal justice courses created by MIT.
Open Learn - Criminology Produced by The Open University, a world leader in open and distance learning, all OpenLearn courses are free to study. We offer nearly 1000 free courses across 8 different subject areas. Our courses are available to start right away.

Criminal Justice Media

Annenberg Classroom Videos Annenberg Classroom's free resources include over 65 videos on constitutional concepts and Supreme Court cases as well as games, lesson plans, timelines, downloadable books, a glossary, and a Constitution guide.
C-SPAN - Criminal Justice Set of freely available videos dealing with crime and criminal justice created by the C-SPAN Network.
FedFlix - Criminal Justice Freely available Federal Government Videos currated by the Internet Archive.
TEDEd - Criminal Justice Created by Technology, Entertainment and Design or TED this curated selection of videos covers a large number of subjects in Criminal Justice.
CrashCourse - Criminal Justice CrashCourse is an educational YouTube channel started by John and Hank Green in 2012. This curated YouTube search covers a number of topics related to criminal justice.