LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Databases & Journals

Criminal Justice & Law Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window Contains more than 200,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Subject areas covered include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.
Criminal Justice Collection This link opens in a new window Access to 150 journals gives users insight into criminal justice topics
Films on Demand: Criminal Justice & Law Collection Contains streaming videos focused on criminal justice topics.
Legal Information Reference Center This link opens in a new window Legal Information Reference Center contains hundreds of full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. The full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses.
LegalTrac This link opens in a new window Covers U.S. cases, laws, regulations and legal practice, plus international law.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window Access to a variety of government and legal resources
Westlaw This link opens in a new window Online legal research database provides access to statues, cases, public records, and law review articles.
War and Terrorism Collection This link opens in a new window Periodicals for analysts, risk management professionals and students.
Military and Intelligence Database This link opens in a new window Journal content covers the past and current state of military affairs.

General Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Provides full text access to a very broad range of topics: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
MasterFile Elite This link opens in a new window This multidisciplinary database covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window Offers comprehensive analyses of contemporary issues. The database contains up-to-date information on controversial topics, pro and con arguments, chronology, and annotated bibliographies.
SIRS Researcher This link opens in a new window Information on social issues, health, science, and business

Open Access Journals

Crime Science Crime Science is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal with an applied focus. The journal's main focus is on research articles and systematic reviews that reflect the growing cooperation among a variety of fields, including environmental criminology, economics, engineering, geography, public health, psychology, statistics and urban planning, on improving the detection, prevention and understanding of crime and disorder.
International Journal of Law, Crime, & Justice The International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice is an international and fully peer-reviewed journal which welcomes high-quality, theoretically informed papers on a wide range of fields linked to criminological research and analysis.
Journal of Criminal Justice The Journal of Criminal Justice is an international journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the criminal justice area. The Journal is concerned with all aspects of the criminal justice system in terms of their relationships to each other.

Journals in OCC Databases

Crime and Justice Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series has presented a review of the latest international research, providing expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists, criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its causes, and its cures. In both the review and the occasional thematic volumes, Crime and Justice offers an interdisciplinary approach to address core issues in criminology.
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Found in Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice
Crime, Law and Social Change Crime, Law and Social Change publishes peer-reviewed, original research articles addressing crime and the political economy of crime, whether at the global, national, regional or local levels, anywhere in the world.
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Found in EBSCOhost: Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text; *12-month embargo on full-text access*
Criminal Justice Ethics Criminal Justice Ethics addresses ethical issues arising in all of the contexts of criminal justice, exploring their conceptual, normative, and empirical aspects and the relations between them. Ethical issues concerning criminal justice require multi-disciplinary study and study that integrates theoretical, empirical, and practical concerns. One of the journal’s purposes is to enlarge and deepen the study of those ethical issues, publishing work that advances the discussions and arguments concerning both the formulation of the issues and the ways they are addressed.
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Found in EBSCOhost: Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text; *15-month embargo on full-text access*