LibGuides: CRIM.5910-061,062: Research Design in Criminal Justice: Library Databases

Criminal Justice Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts from journals, books, reports, and dissertations related to criminology.
Coverage: 1968 - current
Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, dissertations, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.
Criminal Justice Collection This link opens in a new window
Full-text content from over 700 journals.
Coverage: 1980 - current
This database contains nearly 5 million articles focused on all aspects of the criminal justice field. Publications include: American Criminal Law Review, Corrections Today, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Ethics, Forensic Examiner, Psychology Today, and much more!
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
Indexing and full text across a wide range of Criminal Justice subjects.
Coverage: 1981-current
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields. The database includes abstract and indexing for 250 titles, with more than 100 available in full-text.
National Criminal Justice Reference Center This link opens in a new window
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information. The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of the more than 185,000 criminal justice publications housed in the NCJRS Library collection. Most documents published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies since 1995 are available in full-text online. A link is included with the abstract when the full-text is available.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts of publications in the fields of law and criminal justice.
Coverage: 1970 - current
NCJRS contains summaries of more than 190,000 publications including books, government reports, research reports, and unpublished research. It also includes content from 189 journals, including 12 with core coverage.
Global Issues In Context This link opens in a new window
Offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events.
Global Issues in Context features hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each of these gateway pages includes an overview, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, reference, periodical, primary source and statistical information. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
Free version of online mapping tool with data on demographics, health, jobs, and more in the United States
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Content from journals, books, dissertations, and reports related to psychology.
Coverage: 1887 to present
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Includes sociology, criminal justice, social service topics and more!
Watch for the 360 Search graphic to find the full text!
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.