Social Work

Library of Congress Classification

Class HV - Social Work

• HA - Social Science Statistics
• HM - Sociology
• HN - Social History, Social Problems, Social Reform
• HQ - Family, Marriage, Women, Feminism
• HV - Social Pathology, Social & Public Welfare, Criminology
• BF - Psychology
• J -    Political Science & Public Policy
• K -   Law (General)
• LC - Educational sociology
• R -   Medicine (including public and mental health)

Print Resources in the Library

• APA Handbook:
  BF 636.6 A63 2012
• Encyclopedia of Race & Crime
  HV 6789 E43 2009
• International Handbook of Penology & Criminal Justice
  HV 7405 I59 2008
• American Dictionary of Criminal Justice
  HV 7411 C48 2005
• Statistical Analysis in Criminal Justice & Criminology
  HV 7415 V57 2008
• Dictionary of Criminal Justice
  HV 8195 A2 J69 2010
• Prentice-Hall's Dictionary of American Criminal Justice, Criminology, & Criminal Law
  KF 9223 A68 F35 2010

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