The Criminal Trial Trial Transcripts of New York County (1883-1927) can be accessed from the Lloyd Sealy Library Homepage or you the link below.
The prime source of information on gangsters and other sorts of criminals is the FBI. Click the link below to go to their famous cases and criminals page for more information.
"Okies" On the Road to California 1941
The End of Prohibition in Cleveland Ohio 1933
Theodore Roosevelt (NYPD Commissioner in the 1890s) Giving a Speech
July 1 1968 was when New York City implemented 911 for emergency calls. Before that to reach the police department you had to call 440-1234.
The 2014-2015 school year marks the 50th anniversary of the founding of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. This page is a digital exhibition that charts the evolution of the school which has not only changed in response to historical developments both in New York City and the world, it has shaped these developments by contributing to public policy debates in such areas as criminology, penology, human rights, and ethics.
To search through the EbscoHost Academic Search Complete for articles, simply enter in a keyword into the search box below.
To search through the America History and Life database for articles and other material, simply enter in a keyword into the search box below.
To search through Criminal Justice Periodicals Index for articles and more information on these or any other topic that interests you, simply enter in a keyword into the search box above.
To search through the EbscoHost Biography Reference Center for biographies and other materials, simply enter in a keyword into the search box below.
To find an online journal available in the Lloyd Sealy collection, simply enter a title into the search box below.
Elevator operator Robert Green, left, and Jacob Jagendorf, a building engineer, right, found lying at the bottom of an elevator shaft November 24, 1915 (Link)
Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest in Oregon.
(Note social security number tattooed on his arm.)
Photo by Dorothy Lange
To search through Gale Virtual Reference Library for more information on these or any other topic that interests you, simply enter in a keyword into the search box above.
The Digital Collections provide access to hundreds of images digitized from the unique items in the Lloyd Sealy Library Special Collections. These materials are freely available to the public for learning, teaching, and research. The materials in our Digital Collections are especially well-suited for historical research of criminal justice, 20th- and 21st-century New York, the New York Police Department, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice itself.
New York City Police by Joshua Ruff and Michael Cronin (Link)
If you are interested in a different criminal justice database than the one's on this page, click the link below to go to a complete list of available Criminal Justice Databases from the library. And if you are interested in looking at more history databases, click the other link below for a list of all available history databases from the library.)