LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Home

Getting Started

Here are some good databases to start your Criminal Justice research with.

For scholarly articles:

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window In this first stop resource, you will find articles regarding criminology, crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window A good starting point for any research, Academic Search Premier provides access to peer-reviewed articles across multiple subjects, including full-text access for many articles.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1650 journals and other serials publications as well as conference papers, books, and dissertations. Updated monthly and contains backfiles to 1963.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window From the American Psychological Association. Contains over 2 million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, in the area of psychology and related fields dating back to 1840. The database includes international material selected from thousand of journals in 24 languages, English-language book chapters and entire books in psychology and related fields. More than 9,900 journals on psychology and related fields are indexed and over 65,000 records added annually for a total of over 1.5 million records.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Follow this link: Google Scholar Settings to turn on a feature to check if Google Scholar results are available in the Library databases.

Here is a video tutorial with tips and tricks for searching Criminal Justice Abstracts most effectively.

For legal information, news, reports, and more:

WestlawNext This link opens in a new window Legal research databases that contains case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, and legal forms. Also includes newspaper and magazine articles as well as business search and Hoover's Company Records.
ProQuest Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window Enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full- text format.
American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 (Open Access) This link opens in a new window American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of newspapers published within prisons by incarcerated people over the past 200 years. When complete, the collection will contain newspapers from prisons in every state, representing penal institutions of all kinds, including women-only institutions.
CQ Researcher Plus Archive This link opens in a new window In-depth reports on current and controversial issues with complete summaries, pro and con discussions of all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Covers topics in health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy.

For research methods information:

Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window Contains detailed information on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Also, helps with developing a research question, doing a literature review, collecting and analyzing data, and writing up a report, dissertation, or thesis.

Citation Help

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Crime Mapping

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
Online GIS mapping tool that allows you to overlay data on demographics, educational levels, crime, and more on a map at the local, county, state, or national level.

Crimemapping.com
Overlays data from law enforcement agencies on an interactive map to inform the public about crimes their communities.
Community Crime Map
An interactive mapping tool that allows you to overlay crime and offender data.

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