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Policing

Guide to books and e-books

Blackstone's Policing reference books

E-book Policing guides

Guide to books and e-books

For books and e-books Library Search will:

  • tell you whether we have an e-book, a print book, or both and how many copies we have
  • tell you where you can find a print book on our shelves using the shelfmark
  • link directly to the e-book if it is available

Library Search can also allow you to search for books outside of the Birmingham Newman Library collection and order an inter-library loan.

Finding books in the Library

A 'shelfmark' or 'call number' is a number that tells you where a book an be found in the library. Our main lending collection is on Level 2. Each row of shelves has a poster on the end that tells you what shelfmarks can be found there.

You can use the table on this page to see the general areas that main topics in your subject are shelved. Sometimes, casually browsing the shelves can turn up some great resources!

A shelfmark with two or three letters preceding it means that the book is not shelved in the main collection.

  • SE means it will be in our School Experience Collection on Level 0
  • LH means it will be in the Local History Collection on Level 2
  • REF or JHN is for the Reference or John Henry Birmingham Newman Collections on Level 1. You cannot borrow books from these collections: they can only be used in the Library.

Shelf locations

Subject Shelf locations
Criminal Law 345
Policing 363.2
Domestic violence 362.8292
Functions of the Police 363.23
Criminal investigation 363.25
Criminology 364
Criminological research 364.072
Criminal Offences 364.1
Causes of crime 364.2
Crime and media 364.254
Psychology of crime 364.3
Race and crime 364.34
Youth crime 364.36
Penology 364.6
History of crime 364.09
Prisons 365

Last reviewed: 18 September 2024

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