Commonly Used Criminal Justice Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Full-text articles from journals, magazines, and reference sources that covering a broad range of academic study.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window Full-text articles covering criminal law, corrections, policing, forensics, and other essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. Coverage: 1910 - present.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new window Full-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.
- Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority (ICJIA) State agency dedicated to improving the administration of criminal justice. The Authority brings together key leaders from the justice system and the public to identify critical issues facing the criminal justice system in Illinois, and to propose and evaluate policies, programs, and legislation that address those issues. Search for reports and publications on your neighborhood using the site search box.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstract Database This link opens in a new window Collection of resources offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. Coverage: 1901 - present.
Related Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Full-text articles from journals, magazines, and reference sources that covering a broad range of academic study.
- Alternative Press Index 1991-Present This link opens in a new window Comprehensive index of alternative sources, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines covering international and interdisciplinary subjects. Coverage: 1991-present.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window Full-text scholarly journal articles and ebooks related to the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage: 2-5 years from current.
- OmniFile Full Text Select This link opens in a new window Full-text articles, images, abstracts, and citations covering education, general science, humanities, social sciences, and business. Coverage: 1982 - present.
- Scopus This link opens in a new window Index of scientific journals, books and conference proceedings focused on the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window Abstracts and indexes from international journals in sociology, social psychology, and behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1952 - current.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary index of scholarly journals with citations. Coverage: 1980 - present. Limited to five simultaneous users.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new window Index 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.
- Foreign Law Guide This link opens in a new window Full-text collection of relevant sources on foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation. Updated monthly.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new window Full-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.
- Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
- Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals This link opens in a new window Index of selected international and comparative law periodicals and collections of essays. Coverage: 1984 - present.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
- Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window Full-text journals, periodicals, and U.S. Government Documents pertaining to all branches of the military. Coverage: 1954 - present.
- Political Science Abstracts - World Wide This link opens in a new window Indexes of political science and international relations literature. Including abstracts of journals, provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and working papers. Coverage: 1975 - present.
Education Databases are good for articles on child psychology, juvenile behavior, delinquency, gangs ,etc.
- Child Development & Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new window Full-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.
- Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window Full-text articles and conference papers covering education research from early childhood to higher education for all educational specialties. Coverage: 1880 - present.
- Educational Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window Article abstracts covering essential areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Coverage: 1924 - present.
- ERIC via EBSCO This link opens in a new window Abstracts and full text articles, reports, curriculum, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books. Coverage: 1966 - present.
- PsycArticles This link opens in a new window Full-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 window Indexes 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 window Current 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 window Indexes social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation and community organization.
- Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Index of dissertations and theses with abstracts and full-texts. Coverage: 1861-present.
- Joanna Briggs Institute EBP Database This link opens in a new window Index of full-text resources to support Evidence Based Practices (EBP), including recommended practices, evidence summaries, best practice information sheets, systematic reviews and protocols, consumer information sheets, and technical reports.
- PapersFirst This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary index of individual papers presented at conferences, with abstracts from the British Library. Coverage: 1993 - present.
- Proceedings This link opens in a new window Citations of individual papers presented at conferences throughout the world. Coverage: 1993 - present.
More Resources
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Academic 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.
- Ambrose Video 2.0 This link opens in a new window Educational videos in the subjects of social studies, literature, fine arts and the sciences. Includes the BBC Shakespeare Plays.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Videos covering a wide range of academic, vocational and life-skills topics. Titles are available upon request. Requests should be submitted to Audio Visual services at: http://libraries.luc.edu/avpurchase.
- Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window Kanopy 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. Distributors part of Kanopy Streaming include Media Education Foundation, Documentary Education Resources, California Newsreel, Criterion Collection/Janus Films, and many more.
- PsycTHERAPY This link opens in a new window Comprehensive collection of unscripted streaming videos of psychotherapy demonstrations. Coverage: 2011 - present.
- Swank Motion Pictures This link opens in a new window Feature films and documentaries spanning a number of genres from major studios such as Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros. and more. Films include cinema classics and contemporary films. This is a faculty curated collection. Titles are available upon request. You can browse the full selection of titles to add here.
DVDs are listed in the Library catalog and may be requested for contactless pickup.
Public Opinion Databases
- Roper Center This link opens in a new window Comprehensive collection of social sciences data sets and public opinion poll data with results. Coverage 1930 - present.
- PEW Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. We do not take policy positions.
Social Media
- Meltwater This link opens in a new window Social media monitoring and engagement software. Search by keyword through Tweets, Reddit, Instagram and Facebook posts to create instant dashboards and follow trending issues over time. Limited to 4 concurrent users. Create an account for access using your Loyola ID.
- Access World News This link opens in a new window Full-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 window Full-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 window Complete 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 window Full-text daily and weekly newspapers from Illinois. Coverage: 1972 - present.
- New York Times Website This link opens in a new window
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Complete access to the New York Times online edition (nytimes.com) from 1980 through the present. Users must create an account using their LUC email, to gain access to nytimes.com from any web browser or smart phone app, on or off campus, with no monthly limits on article access. This resource is limited to current students, faculty, and staff. Note: HSL students/faculty/staff need to sign up via http://accessnyt.com - Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowThe Wall Street Journal is the world's leading business publication with coverageof the last 90 days and search abilities back 4 years. See Factiva for archives to 1997. Every 180 days users must refresh (or click through the Libraries’ link again). Please register at :https://flagship.luc.edu/loggedin/wsj.html before attempting to access this resource.
