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Criminal Justice Databases: Best Bets
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Criminal Justice DatabaseThe Criminal Justice database contains a wide selection of journals on criminal justice, family law, drug enforcement, and rehabilitation. It contains full text journals and periodicals.
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Oxford Criminology BibliographiesOxford Bibliographies in Criminology is an online guide to the essential literature across the various subfields of criminology. Each article, written and reviewed by top scholars in the field, is rich with citations and annotations, expert recommendations, and narrative pathways to the most important works for virtually all areas of criminology.
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Political Science CompletePolitical Science Complete provides full text for over 400 publications, including international political, economic, and law journals, and indexes over 800 journals.
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SAGE Journals (formerly SAGE Premier)SAGE Journals includes current peer-reviewed journal articles in psychology, political science, management, education, and more.
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SocINDEX with Full TextSocINDEX is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. This database features materials on the subject of sociology, criminal justice, social work, gender studies and family studies. SocINDEX contains full text articles, books, monographs and conference papers.
Legal Databases
Click on the following databases to get started with your legal research. For a helpful introduction to these databases and other ways of doing legal research, please see our guide, Find Court Cases and Legal Research.
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LegalTracLegalTrac contains articles from major law reviews, journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Regulations, Legal Practice, and Taxation. Coverage includes British Commonwealth, European Union and International Law.
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Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)Nexis Uni provides full-text access to legal news, company information, regulations, law reviews, case law, and other legislative information.
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Military and Security Databases
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International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference CenterInternational Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center is an in-depth database that offers information on security & counter-terrorism. Content for ISCTRC includes hundreds of full-text journals and periodicals, thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, FAQs, and Background Information Summaries pertaining to terrorism and security.
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Military and Government CollectionMilitary & Government Collection provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals. The database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 journals. Topics include news on all branches of military and government as well as homeland security.
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Homeland Security Digital LibraryThis database contains over 82,800 documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management from a wide variety of sources including federal, state and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit organizations and private entities.
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Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)Digital National Security Archive unlocks a vast trove of important declassified U.S. government documents providing vital primary source material to advance research in twentieth century history, politics, and international relations.
Other Recommended Criminal Justice Databases
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Bureau of Justice StatisticsThe Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics contains United States’ criminal justice statistics. Information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government can be found on this site.
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Criminological highlightsAn open source Toronto-based publication, produced by academics, faculty, and librarians, which focuses on current criminological research.Archived from 1998 to present.
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FDsys (Federal Digital System)FDsys is the United States government's database of government documents, covering documents and records from all three branches of the federal government.
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General Society Survey (NORC)The General Social Survey is a sociological survey designed to track changes in attitudes, practices, and experiences in the United States.
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Project MuseProject Muse is a collection of over 400 peer-reviewed humanities and social science journals, and covers a wide variety of topics. All of the articles in this database are available in full text.
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Thoreau Multi-Database SearchThoreau is a tool that searches across many of the Library databases. It is not able to search every database, but it does search enough of our resources to be a useful tool for quick, simple searches.
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ProQuest CentralProQuest Central includes a very large selection of scholarly and peer-reviewed publications appropriate for all Walden programs of study, as well as unique materials like newspapers, dissertations, and business information.
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Academic Search CompleteAcademic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary database containing peer reviewed journals, conference papers, newspapers, magazines and other resource types. This database can be a good starting place for topics that cross many subject areas.
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