Library Guides: Criminal Justice Research Guide: Find Articles

"Best Bet" Indexes

These indexes provide a broad range of resources in Sociology, Psychology, and Criminal Justice. Use these to begin your search before jumping into the more subject-specific indexes and websites.

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This 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.
-More than 320 full-text magazines and journals
-More than 570,000 records
-Coverage of more than 600 journals from around the world
Violence and Abuse Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covering the areas of family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and more related to violence and abuse.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline provides access to numerous legal and essential government publications, among them, congressional records, US federal agency documents, and several collections related to Iowa state law. Its archive of case law consists of federal, state, and overseas cases.
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PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Literature in psychology and related disciplines. About 90% of the articles are peer-reviewed; also includes book chapters, reports, theses and dissertations.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Sociological Abstracts includes journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers in sociology, social work, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

Other Indexes & Databases

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. It includes digitized current and back issues of academic journals, books and primary source materials.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Offers both national and international resources (including abstracts, selected full texts, and links to other relevant sites) in the area of criminal justice and related subjects. Includes search engine.

PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Full-text of journals from the American Psychological Association (APA) on psychology and the behavioral sciences.
Race Relations Abstracts This link opens in a new window
An essential resource for ethnic and racial studies; provides information on articles from academic journals plus books, magazine and newspaper articles related to race and ethnic studies, race relations, cultural identity, immigration studies, and more.