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Criminal Justice Databases
Consult the databases below for highly-relevant subject-specific information about criminal justice, criminology, and related topics.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles covering criminal law, corrections, policing, forensics, and other essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. Coverage: 1910 - present.
- Current Index to Legal Periodicals (Hein Online)The Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) provides a list of the most recently published journals in the legal field. This resource is updated weekly.
- Global Terrorism Database This link opens in a new windowFull-text collection of information on domestic and international terrorist attacks around the world. For each event, information is available on the date and location of the incident, the weapons used and nature of the target, the number of casualties, and when identifiable, the group or individual responsible. Coverage: 1970 - 2019.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowFull-text of historical and government documents in a searchable, image-based format. Includes law journals and historical collections of U.S. federal government documents. Coverage: 1925 - present.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstract Database This link opens in a new windowCollection of resources offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. Coverage: 1901 - present.
- Oxford Handbooks Online: Classical Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, History, Philosophy, and Religion This link opens in a new windowCollection of handbooks containing articles by scholars in classical studies, criminology and criminal justice, history, philosophy, and religion.
Related Databases
Criminal Justice and Criminology is an interdisciplinary field that often spans many topics. Databases in the legal, psychology, sociology, and social work fields may contain useful information that can support your work.
- Foreign Law Guide This link opens in a new windowFull-text collection of relevant sources on foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation. Updated monthly.
- Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new windowFull-text collection of U.S. policy documents, national strategy documents, theses, and research papers from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security and the Naval Postgraduate School, and homeland security executive orders. Includes notices of events and conferences pertaining to homeland security, and news items drawn from various news sources. Coverage: 1811 - present.
- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals This link opens in a new windowIndex of selected international and comparative law periodicals and collections of essays. Coverage: 1984 - present.
- Major Acts of Congress This link opens in a new windowFull-text volume set contains landmark pieces of legislation, aspects of legislation are covered, including the National Prohibition Act, the Civil Rights Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Fair Housing Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and much more.
- Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new windowFull-text journals, periodicals, and U.S. Government Documents pertaining to all branches of the military. Coverage: 1954 - present.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles on news, business, and legal sources, radio and television transcripts, federal and state court cases, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and law reviews. Coverage: 1790 - present.
- Political Science Abstracts - World Wide This link opens in a new windowIndexes of political science and international relations literature. Including abstracts of journals, provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and working papers. Coverage: 1975 - present.
Criminal Justice and Criminology is an interdisciplinary field that often spans many topics. Databases in the legal, psychology, sociology, and social work fields may contain useful information that can support your work.
- Child Development & Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new windowFull-text book reviews and article abstracts on the topic of child development and adolescent studies, related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. Includes articles, technical reports, books, book chapters, theses, and dissertations.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowIndex of some-full text articles and abstracts related to gender studies, including women's studies, feminism, masculine studies, masculinity studies, transgender studies, LGBTQ, LGBTQA, and sexuality.
- PsycArticles This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles from journals covering general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology. Coverage: 1894 - present.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowIndexes literature in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Updated weekly. Coverage: 1800s - present.
- Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCurrent research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage: 1981 - present.
- Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation and community organization.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowAbstracts and indexes from international journals in sociology, social psychology, and behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1952 - current.
More Resources
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online contains over 70,000 titles spanning a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 14,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street. Database includes the Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video collection.
- Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new windowKanopy Streaming is a new service offering access to thousands of titles from the largest educational film providers. The library will license some whole collections while other titles may be previewed and requested a la carte directly by faculty for instruction. All titles come will full Public Performance Rights and may even be screened outside the classroom where no admission is charged.
Browse under Law & Criminal Justice to find videos related to these topics. - PsycTHERAPY This link opens in a new windowComprehensive collection of unscripted streaming videos of psychotherapy demonstrations. Coverage: 2011 - present.
- Roper Center This link opens in a new windowComprehensive collection of social sciences data sets and public opinion poll data with results. Coverage 1930 - present.
- Pew Research CenterPew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. Pew conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.
- Access World News This link opens in a new windowFull-text newspapers, magazines, web-only content from U.S. and international news sources. Coverage: 1978 - present.
- Chicago Sun-Times 1986-current This link opens in a new windowFull-text local and regional newspaper articles covering many topics including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Coverage: 1986 - present.
- Chicago Tribune (1985-current) This link opens in a new windowComplete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community.
- Illinois Newspapers This link opens in a new windowFull-text daily and weekly newspapers from Illinois. Coverage: 1972 - present.