The UVU Library Helps Future Legal Eagles

This week, with the 125th anniversary of the last unsolved Jack the Ripper murder, the UVU Library is taking a look at our legal and forensics resources. Law and law enforcement have come a long way over the past century, and we hope our students will help pave the way over the next century.

Forensics Collection

We have been busily collecting books about forensic science for as long as UVU has had a program. The books are located throughout our Regular Collection as they deal with topics as diverse as chemistry, toxicology, physics, social sciences, and more.

NCJRS Abstracts

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of 170,000 publications including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research from the 1960s to the present. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victimology. Some content may be peer-reviewed.

As always, you can ask us for help with your research at the Library's Reference Desk. If you need help with our legal databases, feel free to ask our legal subject librarian, Ben Wilson.