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A guide to information resources for the law enforcement and criminal justice fields.
Last Updated: Feb 24, 2012 URL: http://research.wou.edu/criminal_justice Print Guide RSS UpdatesShareThis

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Top Criminal Justice Databases

These are the major databases for criminal justice research.

  • Criminal Justice Periodicals
    Indexes and provides full-text access to articles published in 45 criminal justice journals frequently consulted by professionals. Also includes citations and abstracts for more than 100 additional journals. Focuses on practical issues in crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, police issues, and courtroom procedures.
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
    Indexes and provides abstracts for more than 180,000 criminal justice publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, journal articles and unpublished research.
  • Academic Search Premier
    Academic Search Premier is a multi-disciplinary database that provides citations and full-text for articles published in nearly 4,500 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Indexes and provides abstracts for the international scholarly literature in sociology and related disciplines. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from more than 1,809 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Updated monthly.
  • TRANweb
    Provides citations for journal articles and conference papers in law enforcement. Maintained by the Transportation Library at Northwestern University.

Other Databases to Try

  • ProQuest Statistical Insight
    Provides full-text access to statistical data contained in sources published by agencies of the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. Useful for obtaining authoritative statistical data on a wide range of topics, such as: national income and production, retail and wholesale trade, interest rates, and economic indicators.
  • Polling the Nations
    This database contains data gathered in more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries. Each record reports a question asked and the responses given. Also included in each record are the name of the organization that conducted the poll, the date the information was released, the sample size, and the groups or areas included in the interview.
  • Other Databases @ WOU
    This link takes you to the library's main article databases page. Consider other databases for information related to criminal justice, like:
    Business Source Premier -- police strikes, corporate crime; administration personnel and management
    ERIC -- delinquency, crime and the schools; correctional education
    PsycINFO -- cause and effect of criminal behavior; some training and personnel issues; applied psychology

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