LibGuides: CRJ 428: Women and Crime (Pinchevsky)

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Criminal Justice Abstracts
Good for: Researching criminology and related disciplines.
Contains: Journal articles.
Dates covered: 1960-current date.
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Good for: Researching criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, family & domestic violence, and more.
Contains: Journal articles.
Dates covered: 1950-current date.
Academic Search Premier
Searchable articles from academic and professional journals and magazines covering every academic discipline.
Update frequency: Updated daily
This excellent one-stop resource lets you search citations and summaries by keyword and then instantly retrieve the full text of articles from journals online. The Get Text button helps you locate any article without linked full text in alternate online sources or in UNLV's print journal collection.
SocINDEX with Full Text
1895-
Indexes the literature of sociology and related disciplines.
Includes full text for selected journals, monographs, and conference papers and contains full text for over 325 journals dating back to 1895. Encompasses all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, and many others.
GenderWatch
1974-
Publications on gender issues. International publications as well as reports, pamphlets, papers, and conference proceedings devoted to gender issues.
Update frequency: quarterly
Women's Studies International
1972-
Scholarship in gender studies and feminist research.
Update frequency: quarterly
Use this database to find journals, newspapers, books, book chapters, proceedings, dissertations, NGO studies, websites, grey literature concerning feminist research.
CQ Researcher
Good for: Controversial topics in social issues, environment, health, education, science, and technology.
Contains: Reports with information about all sides of an issue, including comments from experts in the field, charts and graphs, a pro-con feature, a chronology, a bibliography for additional research, and a list of contacts.
Dates covered: 1923-present.

Google Scholar
Be sure to change your settings under library links to: University of Nevada Las Vegas to access resources.

UNLV Newspaper Databases

Las Vegas Review Journal (NewsBank)
1996-
Full text of articles, not including images.
Newspaper Source Plus
Regional newspapers and broadcast television transcripts.
Newspaper Source provides full text coverage for 40 national and international newspapers including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. Selected full text is offered from more than 330 regional newspapers including The Buffalo News, Orange County Register, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Full text transcripts are available from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio, and more.
US Newsstream
1980s-
Searchable current and recent articles from newspapers, including Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Full text of articles from major national newspapers: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, USA Today. Also included are the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, and the Las Vegas Review Journal.

Government-Related Web Resources Focusing on Women & Crime

An easy way to find government reports is use Google and add site:.gov to your keyword search. For example: If you type sex crimes site:.gov, this will limit your search to federal/state/local publications.

Violent Crimes Committed Against Women & Children, State of California, Dept. of Justice
State of California, Dept. of Justice, Office of Attorney General resource concentrates on sexual assault; battering of spouses, cohabitants and the parents of one's children; and child and elder abuse.
National Institute of Justice: Publications Related To: Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner violence/Family, Victims of Crime, OR Female
Relationships & Safety--WomenHealth.gov
Excellent resource for various types of women as victim crimes (elder abuse, disabilities, dating violence, etc.)
Twenty Years of the Violence Against Women Act: Dispatches from the Field
Women’s pathways to jail: The roles & intersections of serious mental illness & trauma
Causes and Correlates of Girls’ Delinquency, USDOJ Report
National Institute of Corrections--Female Offender Publications
NCJRS-Women and Girls in the Justice System
NCJRS site that provides facts & figures, a wide variety of publications, legislation, & programs focusing on women & crime.

Women & Crime--Statistics & Data

When searching on Google for crime statistics, by limiting it to site:.gov, you will limit your search only to government publications. Example: domestic violence statistics site:gov

Female Victims Of Sexual Violence, 1994-2010
Sexual Violence Data Sources
CDC provides several links regarding sexual violence data/statistics.
Female Victims of Crime, BJS
Crime Victimization
Ten-Year Arrest Trends by Sex, 2002–2011
Arrests by Sex, 2015
Juvenile Arrest Rates for All Crimes by Sex, 1980-2014
Statistics on Women Offenders, 2015
Women in the Federal Offender Population (United States Sentencing Commission)

Crime & Justice Data Online
Website contains data concerning the following: Crime trends from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports, homicide trends and characteristics by state and local agencies, law enforcement management, and administrative statistics
Crime and Victims Statistics
Criminal victimization statistic reports. Reports include victim characteristics such as female victims, elderly victims, teenage victims. Crime characteristics types of crime, victim/offender relationship, weapon use, place of occurrence, cost of crime.
Drugs & Crime Facts
A summary of U.S. statistics about drug-related crimes, law enforcement, courts, and corrections from Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and non-BJS sources.
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
The BJS website containing data on crime and victims, law enforcement, prosecution, criminal offenders, and corrections. Additionally, the Publications menu features full-text publications about drugs, gun violence, capital punishment, and more.
Uniform Crime Reports
According to its website, "UCR is a city, county, and state law enforcement program which provides a nationwide view of crime based on the submission of statistics by law enforcement agencies throughout the country." Some of the statistical categories include homicide, robbery, burglary, and aggravated assault.