Research Guides: Criminal Justice: Find Articles

Criminal Justice Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Criminal Justice Abstracts contains journal articles, books and reports on all aspects of criminology and criminal justice, including crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, police, courts and punishment.
ProQuest Criminology Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection supports research on crime, law enforcement, and security services. It includes the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database and the ProQuest Criminal Justice full-text database. It also includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs, and other relevant material.

Other Social Science Databases

APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
APA PsycInfo contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all 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.
ERIC [via EBSCOhost] This link opens in a new window
ERIC [via EBSCOhost] contains bibliographic records of research reports, conference papers, teaching guides, books, and journal articles relating to the practice of education. ERIC Digests are included. Covers the period 1966-present.
PAIS International This link opens in a new window
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PAIS covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content. PAIS International is the current file covering 1972 to present, and PAIS Archive includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976.
ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
A cross-database search of international literature in social sciences, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. You lose some advanced filtering capability by searching here, but gain the convenience of searching everything in 17 social science databases at once.

ProQuest Sociology Collection
This collection provides access to Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA), Sociological Abstracts, and ProQuest Sociology full-text database. It provides abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more covering the international literature in sociology, social services, and related fields.

PTSDpubs (formerly PILOTS) This link opens in a new window
PTSDpubs is an interdisciplinary bibliographical database and includes citations to literature on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from 1871-present. The database includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and government documents.

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Cited Reference Searching

Use these databases and websites to search for articles that cite a specific article. This is a good way to identify responses to articles, follow-up studies, etc.

APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
To search for a cited reference by a cited author, the cited title of a journal article or report, the cited title of a journal, a cited date, or some element in all citation fields (such as a publisher or the name of a university). Click on Cited References at the top of the PsycINFO search page.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar is a search engine for scholarly literature. It covers many disciplines and types of sources. Use the Cited By links to find sources that cite a specific source.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Includes science and social science journals, limited social work coverage, broader coverage on health, substance abuse, etc.

Web of Science LibGuide. Explore the research on a subject PDF. Web of Science Taining portal
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