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Criminal Justice

To assist the community of Penn State faculty and students interested in exploring the field of crime, law and justice, this guide has been developed to help you locate library resources.

What is a primary source?

The Eberly Family Special Collections Library provides primary source materials for researchers from Penn State and around the world.

Richard Pearce-Moses defines a primary source as: "Material that contains firsthand accounts of events and that was created contemporaneous to those events or later recalled by an eyewitness."

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