Criminal Justice Research Guide

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text is the leading full-text database for criminal justice research. It offers an essential collection of journals for students and scholars researching criminal justice and criminology.

Covering the areas of family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and more this index provides bibliographic records from over 21,500 key sources related to this discipline.

Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and non-evaluative abstracts of journal articles.

PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries and 90% of the articles are peer-reviewed. It includes records from the 1800's to the present. The sources include over 1,400 professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally.

HeinOnline is an online legal database that includes access to US state and federal case law, law journals, congressional records and US federal agency documents.

This database covers almost all subject areas and is especially good at interdisciplinary areas. Good place to start for class assignments. It contains full text articles for more than 6,500 journals.

JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. Originally containing digitized back issues of academic journals, it now also includes books and primary sources, and current issues of journals.

Full-text of journals from the American Psychological Association, totaling about 80 journals on psychology and the behavioral sciences.
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RRA provides access to bibliographic records covering race relations, ethnic studies, discrimination and immigration studies.