LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Getting Started

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This guide is intended to help you with your library research. You will find databases, journals, ebooks, reference books, and selected datasets to help with your literature review, or provide background information on important criminal justice-related subject areas.

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Criminal Justice Abstracts
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1960-
Journal articles in criminology and related disciplines.

Provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines.
Criminology and Criminal Justice
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1950-
Journal articles focused on criminal justice, juvenile delinquency and justice, family & domestic violence and more.

This criminology collection includes the full text of 24 journals published by Sage and participating societies. It covers such subjects as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence.

Google Scholar
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
Established in 1972, NCJRS is a federally funded resource "offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide" with links to resources on such topics as Corrections, Courts, Crime Prevention, Criminal Justice Statistics, Drugs and Crime, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, and Victims.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Official government source for statistics on the justice system, including crime and victims, drugs and crime, criminal offenders, law enforcement, prosecution, courts and sentencing, corrections, etc.

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