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Free Social Sciences Books - Social Service, Welfare, Criminology
  1. 54 Ways You Can Help the Homeless by Charles Kroloff (HTML at earthsystems.org)

  2. A Book of Remarkable Criminals by Henry Brodribb Irving (HTML at Virginia)

  3. A Book of Scoundrels by Charles Whibley
    1. HTML at Virginia
    2. Gutenberg text

  4. Account of the Poor Fund and Other Charities Held in Trust by the Old South Society, City of Boston by Joseph Ballard (page images at MOA)

  5. Adventures of a Deaf-Mute by William B. Swett (page images at MOA)

  6. Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society by Peter McWilliams (HTML at mcwilliams.com)

  7. Alcoholics Anonymous (1951 printing of first edition) by Bill W. (HTML at recovery.org; US distribution only)

  8. Annals of the Rescued by Julia Bainbrigge Wightman (page images at MOA)

  9. A Plain Letter to the Lord Chancellor on the Infant Custody Bill by Caroline Norton (HTML at indiana.edu)

  10. Arming the Torturers: Electro-Shock Torture and the Spread of Stun Technology by Amnesty International (HTML at amnesty.org)

  11. Arts of Intoxication: The Aim, and the Results by Jonathan Townley Crane (page images at MOA)

  12. Assessing Drug Abuse Within and Across Communities by National Institute on Drug Abuse (HTML and PDF at NIH)

  13. A United States Army "Scottsboro Case" by Vito Marcantonio and William H. Hastie (frame-dependent page images at MSU)

  14. Beauties and Achievements of the Blind by William Artman (page imag)

  15. Behind Bars in Brazil by Human Rights Watch (HTML at hrw.org)

  16. Betraying Women: Psychiatric Rape in the Name of Treatment by Church of Scientology (illustrated HTML at cchr.org)

  17. Between Politics and Reason: The Drug Legalization Debate by Erich Goode (HTML at druglibrary.org)

  18. Bringing In the Sheaves: Transforming Poverty Into Productivity by George Grant (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

  19. By-Laws of the Michigan State Reform School (1869) by Michigan Boys Vocational School (page images at MOA)

  20. Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide by Michael Tabor (frame-dependent page images at MSU)

  21. Caring for America's Children, ed. by Anne Meadows (page images at NAP)

  22. Centennial Temperance Volume by International Temperance Conference of 1876
    1. page images at MOA
    2. page images at MOA

  23. Chapters on Social Science as Connected with the Administration of State Charities by George Leib Harrison (page images at MOA)

  24. Comic Books and Juvenile Delinquency by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (HTML at GeoCities)

  25. Crime and Insanity; Murder and Its Punishment; Musings on Murder by Charles J. Darling (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

  26. Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals", ed. by Alfred Blumstein
    1. volume I: page images at NAP
    2. volume II: page images at NAP

  27. Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students (translated from the fourth German edition) by Hans Gross, trans. by Horace M. Kallen
    1. HTML at Virginia
    2. Gutenberg text

  28. Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

  29. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle (illustrated HTML at rm-r.net)

  30. Effective Services for Young Children: Report of a Workshop, ed. by Lisbeth B. Schorr, Deborah Both, and Carol Copple (preliminary HTML at ulib.org)

  31. Escape from Pretoria by Tim Jenkin (HTML at anc.org.za)

  32. Essays on Suicide and the Immortality of the Soul by David Hume (HTML at utm.edu)

  33. Ethnicity and Nationality: Refugees in Asia by Amnesty International (HTML at amnesty.org)

  34. Fight Back: How to Take Back Your Neighborhood, Schools, and Families from the Drug Dealers by Michael Levine (text with commentary at idt.net)

  35. Giving Alms No Charity by Daniel Defoe (text at McMaster)

  36. Grappling With the Monster: or, The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by T. S. Arthur (page images at MOA)

  37. Growing Up Tobacco Free: Preventing Nicotine Addiction in Children and Youths, ed. by Barbara S. Lynch and Richard J. Bonnie (page images at NAP)

  38. Health Outcomes for Older People: Questions for the Coming Decade, ed. by Jill C. Feasley (page images at NAP)

  39. High Culture: Marijuana in the Lives of Americans by William Novak (HTML at druglibrary.org)

  40. High in America: The True Story Behind NORML and the Politics of Marijuana by Patrick Anderson (HTML at druglibrary.org)

  41. History of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (page images at MOA)

  42. House of Hospitality by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)

  43. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis (Netscape-dependent HTML at Yale)

  44. Human Rights and Social Work by United Nations Centre for Human Rights (HTML at uc.edu)

  45. Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Mary L. (Day) Arms (page images at MOA)

  46. In Darkest England, and The Way Out by William Booth (Gutenberg text)

  47. Inner-City Poverty in the United States, ed. by Laurence E. Lynn and Michael McGeary (preliminary HTML at ulib.org)

  48. Letters to the Mob by Caroline Norton (HTML at indiana.edu)

  49. London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes (Gutenberg text)

  50. Losing Generations: Adolescents in High-Risk Settings by National Research Council Panel on High-Risk Youth (page images at NAP)

  51. Mexico: Amnesty International's Concerns Regarding Torture and Ill-Treatment in Mexico by Amnesty International (HTML at amnesty.org)

  52. National Conference on Marijuana Use: Prevention, Treatment, and Research: Conference Highlights by National Conference on Marijuana Use (PDF at NIH)

  53. New Themes for the Protestant Clergy: Creeds without Charity, Theology Without Humanity, and Protestantism without Christianity by Stephen Colwell (page images at MOA)

  54. On Prison Discipline and Penal Legislation by John Berrien Lindsley (page images at MOA)

  55. On the Legal Rights and Responsibilities of the Deaf and Dumb by Harvey Prindle Peet (page images at MOA)

  56. Opinion of Messieurs Coin Delisle & Paillard de Villeneuve on the Validity of the Disposition Contained in the Will of the Late John D. Fink by Jean Baptiste Cesar Coin-Delisle and Paillard de Villeneuve (page images at MOA)

  57. Papers On Out-Door Relief and Tramps by Francis Wayland (page images at MOA)

  58. Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic Psychology by William Healy and Mary Healy (Gutenberg text)

  59. Police and Public (second revised edition) by Sydney Fowler Wright (HTML at sfw.org)

  60. Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising by Lawrence W. Sherman, Denise Gottfredson, Doris MacKenzie, John Eck, Peter Reuter, and Shawn Bushway (HTML at ncjrs.org)

  61. Prison Reform in the United States (page images at MOA)

  62. Results of Prohibition in Connecticut by Henry S. Clubb (page images at MOA)

  63. Ruined by Rum: A Tale of Facts, Together with an Appeal for Temperance by Emily Foote Baldwin (page images at MOA)

  64. Scenes from a Silent World: or Prisons and Their Inmates by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)

  65. Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society of New York (page images at MOA)

  66. She Stands Accused by Victor MacClure (HTML at Virginia)

  67. Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States by Human Rights Watch (HTML at hrw.org)

  68. Smash the Scottsboro Lynch Verdict by James Stewart Allen (frame-dependent page images at MSU)

  69. Special Report on Prisons and Prison Discipline by Massachusetts Board of State Charities (page images at MOA)

  70. Special Report of the Board of State Commissioners for the General Supervision of Charitable, Penal, Pauper, and Reformatory Institutions by Michigan State Board of Corrections and Charities (page images at MOA)

  71. Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 by R. J. Rummel (illustrated HTML at Hawaii)

  72. Systemic Injustice: Torture, "Disappearance," and Extrajudicial Execution in Mexico by Joel Solomon (HTML at hrw.org)

  73. Taming Your Turbulent Past: A Self-Help Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics by Gayle Rossellini and Mark Worden (HTML at wizzards.net)

  74. Temperance and Education by Mark Hopkins (page images at MOA)

  75. Temperance Sermons by National Temperance Society and Publication House (page images at MOA)

  76. Text-Book of Temperance by Frederic Richard Lees (page images at MOA)

  77. The Bases of the Temperance Reform: An Exposition and Appeal by Dawson Burns (page images at MOA)

  78. The Davidian Massacre: Disturbing Questions About Waco Which Must Be Answered by Carol Moore (HTML at kreative.net)

  79. The Dispossessed: Homelessness in America by George Grant (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)

  80. The FBI Laboratory: An Investigation into Laboratory Practices and Alleged Misconduct in Explosives-Related and Other Cases by United States Department of Justice (HTML at usdoj.gov)

  81. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1874 by Louis Alfred Wiltz (page images at MOA)

  82. The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling
    1. various formats at EFF
    2. sideways PDF at e-scribe.com

  83. The Last Public Execution in America by Perry T. Ryan (illustrated HTML at Geocities)

  84. The Marijuana Smokers by Erich Goode (HTML at druglibrary.org)

  85. The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror by David Hoffman (HTML at constitution.org)

  86. The Opium Monopoly by Ellen Newbold La Motte (HTML at druglibrary.org)

  87. The People of the Abyss by Jack London
    1. illustrated HTML at Berkeley
    2. Gutenberg text

  88. The Rationale of Punishment by Jeremy Bentham (HTML at Texas)

  89. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller and Anne Mansfield Sullivan, ed. by John Albert Macy
    1. illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
    2. Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Nov 2000

  90. The Twin Hells by John N. Reynolds
    1. HTML at Virginia
    2. Gutenberg text

  91. The Unadjusted Girl, With Cases and Standpoint for Behavior Analysis by William Isaac Thomas (HTML at Brock)

  92. Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect by National Research Council Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect (page images at NAP)

  93. Understanding Violence Against Women, ed. by Nancy A. Crowell and Ann W. Burgess (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

  94. The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation (1905 edition) by Carry Nation (Gutenberg text)

  95. Torture in Russia: "This Man-Made Hell" by Amnesty International (HTML at amnesty.org)

  96. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams
    1. local illustrated HTML
    2. Gutenberg text

  97. Vigilante Victims: Montana's 1864 Hanging Spree by Ruth E. Mather and F. E. Boswell
    1. HTML at montana-vigilantes.org
    2. HTML at wmc.edu

  98. Wendell Phillips, Esq., on a Metropolitan Police by Wendell Phillips (page images at MOA)