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Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET)

Designed to give students essential skills for entry-level employment as law enforcement officers with state, county, or municipal governments, or with private enterprise.
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    • Look for common database tools (suggested subject headings, abstracts, citation help, emailing and save options) on the edges of the page, often in a color bar above the search boxes or in a separate frame on the right or left of your results list.

    Truncation allows you to search variables of a word by typing part of the word plus an asterisk *

    ADOPT finds just adopt, but ADOPT* finds adopted, adopting, adoptions, etc.

    WOMAN finds just woman, but WOM*N finds woman and women.

     

    Enclose your words in quotation marks to create a phrase search.

    CHILDREN OF MEN finds titles with any combination of those common words.

    "CHILDREN OF MEN" finds the book and movie with that exact title.

     

    Look for  proximity search options.

    Many CFCC databases offer proximity searching by typing multiple search terms within a single search box (with no quotation marks).

    Google also uses a variation of proximity searching, giving more relevance to words typed in a single search box if they appear near each other in the results.

    Use the right  Boolean operator.

    • Use the right Boolean operator--usually AND--to link two search terms.  Using OR often results in a large number of unrelated (and less useful) results.  Using AND assures that both of your search terms will appear in the same document.

     

    Want more information about Boolean searching?

    Boolean Tutorial - Beginner

    Boolean Tutorial - Advanced

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    • Criminology - HV 6001 - HV 7220.5
    • Criminal anthropology, including criminal types, criminal psychology, prison psychology, causes of crime - HV 6035 - HV 6197
    • Criminal classes - HV 6201- HV 6249
    • Victims of crimes. Victimology - HV 6250 - HV 6250.4
    • Crimes and offenses - HV 6251 - HV 6773.55
    • Crimes and criminal classes - HV 6774 - HV 7220.5
    • HV 9960Social work with delinquents & criminals - HV 7428
    • Prevention of crime, methods, etc. - HV 7431
    • Gun control - HV 7435 - HV 7439
    • Police. Detectives. - HV 7551 - HV 8280.7
    • Administration & organization - HV 7935 - HV 8025
    • Police duty. Methods of protection - HV 8031 - HV 8080
    • Special classes of crimes, offenses & criminals - HV 8035 - HV 8069
    • Investigation of crimes. Examination & identification of prisoners - HV 8073 - HV 8079.35
    • Police social work - HV 8079.2 - HV 8079.35
    • Traffic control. Traffic accident investigation - HV 8079.5 - HV 8079.55
    • Private detectives. Detective bureaus - HV 8081 - HV 8280.7
    • Private security services - HV 8290 - HV 8291
    • Prisons. Corrections - HV 8301 - HV 9920.7
    • Juvenile offenders. Juvenile delinquency. Reform schools, etc. - HV 9051 - HV 9230.7
    • Reformation & reclamation of adult prisoners - HV 9261 - HV 9960

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    Available in print at the North Campus Library.  To search for articles within these publications, use the online index or website link below each publication title.