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Criminal Justice Subject Guide
Contents
Scope and Introduction
Getting Started
Reference Resources
Research Guides
 Electronic
Databases & Indexes
Journal Titles
Related Subject Guides
Criminology & Criminal Justice Related Web Sites
Electronic
Databases & Indexes
Selected Electronic
Databases & Indexes
Other Useful
Electronic Databases & Indexes
Database Finder
Off-Campus Access
Electronic
Indexes and Databases:
Electronic indexes
and databases provide citations or references to the articles in journals,
magazines, newspapers, books, book chapters, journal articles, conference
papers, government documents, etc. In some library databases, the full
text of the articles is available.
Selected Electronic Databases & Indexes
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Criminal Justice Abstracts off-campus
Criminal Justice Abstracts,
the criminology database from SAGE Publications, contains comprehensive
coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and
unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
Prepared in
co-operation with the Don M. Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice at
Rutgers University Law Library,
Criminal Justice Abstracts
covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile
delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing.
The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal
articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide
range of topics in criminal justice.
Subject Coverage
- Major areas of coverage
include:
Adult Corrections
Behavioral Science
Courts and the Legal Process
Crime, the Offender & the Victim
Crime Prevention & Control Strategies
Economic & Political Sciences
Education
Juvenile Justice & Delinquency
Law
Police
Psychology
Social Work
Substance Abuse
Dates of Coverage:
1968 – current
Update Frequency:
Quarterly
Criminal Justice Periodicals
Proquest Criminal Justice Periodical Index
provides a comprehensive selection of US and international criminal
justice journals for students and professionals. Subjects covered include
law enforcement, corrections administration,
drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
Subject area: Social
sciences, education, and humanities
Coverage: 1981 - present
Total titles covered: 190. The database offers ASCII text, image, and
Text+Graphics coverage for about 50 of the titles most frequently accessed
by criminal justice researchers. CJPI also include complete indexing and
abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals.
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
OFF CAMPUS PATRONS
Includes the full-text of 23 journals
published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 23
years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as
Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections,
Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Provides
access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.
Use Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe for basic legal research including case
law, codes and regulations, and secondary literature.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Summaries of more than 160,000
criminal justice publications including: Federal, State, and local
government reports, books, research, reports, journal articles,
and unpublished research.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Abstracts (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and
substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program
development worldwide. NCJRS services and resources are available to
anyone interested in crime and public safety including policymakers,
practitioners, researchers, educators, community leaders, and the general
public. The NCJRS Database contains summaries of more than 180,000
criminal justice publications. This Database contains abstracts, not
full-text documents. Most documents published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies
-- the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Bureau of
Justice Statistics, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the
Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of
National Drug Control Policy -- since 1995 are available in full-text
online. When the full-text is available online, a link is included with
the abstract.
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Other Useful Electronic Databases & Indexes
Academic Search Premier
(Indexing: 1984+, full-text: 1990+).
Indexing and abstracts of scholarly journals covering the social
sciences, humanities, education and more.
Articles First
Indexes journals in science, technology, medicine,
social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.
Books in Print Professional
comprehensive database of over 5
million book, audio book, and video titles.
Britannica Online
The complete encyclopedia, with
related Internet sites and more. Encyclopedia Britannica.
Congressional Record
(1995-current). The official record of the proceedings
and debates of the United States Congress.
Congressional Universe
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information
including Congressional publications, laws, bill and regulations and
member and committee information.
CQ Researcher Online
Comprehensive, non-biased reporting
and analysis on issues shaping our world.
CQ Weekly
Fully archived to 1983 on the Web, CQ
Weekly looks forward and back. Readers get in-depth reports on
issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrap
up the previous week's news, including the status of bills in
play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity,
debates and all roll-call votes.
Dissertation Abstracts
(Indexing: 1861+, Abstracting
Dissertations: 1980+, Abstracting Theses: 1988+). The complete
range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at
accredited institutions.
Ebsco Electronic Journal Service (EJS)
Provides access to full-text of many
of FSU's online journal subscriptions and also EJS Journals via
pay per view. Includes searching in article titles, journal
titles, abstracts, full-text and title list browsing.
Ebscohost
Search up to 24 of FSU's databases
simultaneously
ECO
(Electronic Collection Online). An
OCLC collection of scholarly journals.
Facts.com
(1980-current). Contains information
from seven core reference databases covering events, issues,
statistics, and people of the last 20 years.
FactSearch
(1984-current). Facts and statistics
on topics of current interest.
Federal Register
(1995-current). The official daily publication for
Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations,
as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.
Fedworld
National Technical Information Services. Federal job
announcements, agency site directory, more.
Gale Ready Reference Shelf
Integrates 14 of Gale's reference
directories. It contains more than 320,000 listings for
associations, research centers, publishers, publications,
databases, television and radio stations, and more.
Global Newsbank
(1996-current). Newspaper articles
from around the world. Newsbank.
GPO
Gateway to searchable databases from the federal
government. Includes the Federal Register and Congressional Record.
GPO Monthly Catalog
(1976-current). Monthly Catalog of United States
publications. Contains records of reports, studies, fact sheets, maps,
handbooks, conference proceedings, etc., issued by all U.S. federal
government agencies and the U.S. Congress.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
(1981-current). International legal
information covering all areas of jurisprudence.
Infotrac OneFile
InfoTrac OneFile includes over 6,325
titles indexed from 1980 to present; nearly 3,000 full-text
titles, including Expanded Academic ASAP.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization
with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of
important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these
journals as widely as possible.
Legal Trac
LegalTrac provides indexing for
approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal
newspapers, bar association journals and international legal
journals.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide range of
news, business, legal and reference information.
MAS Full-text : Ultra School Edition
Provides full text for nearly 460
general interest and current events magazines
NCLIVE
A core group of reference and
research materials online in the form of full-text electronic
information and indexes.
PAIS International
(1972-current). Citations to public
policy literature of economics, government, law, international
business, political science, public administration, and other
social sciences.
Periodical Abstracts
(1987-current). Abstracts from
general and academic journals, covering business, current affairs,
economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's studies, and
others.
Proceedings First
(1993+). An index of conference
publications.
Proquest Digital Dissertations
With more than two million entries,
the Dissertation Abstracts database is the single, authoritative
source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's
theses. Titles since 1997 have 24 page previews available in pdf
format.
ProQuest Direct
Search up to a dozen Proquest
databases simultaneously
ProQuest Psychology Journals
Over 400 journals and related
publications in psychology.
PsychInfo
1887-current). Indexes and abstracts
journal articles and book chapters in psychology and behavioral
sciences.
Reader’s Guide
(Indexing: 1983+, Abstracting:
1984+). Abstracts of articles from popular magazines.
Science Direct
ScienceDirect is the unsurpassed single source
for scientific, technical and medical information on the Internet.
Researchers can access a critical mass of the world's STM journal titles
and full-text articles.
Serials Directory
(Indexing: current). Information
includes journal price, e-mail and Internet address.
SIRS Researcher
(Indexing: 1988+, Summaries: 1994+).
Thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific,
historic, economic, political, and global issues.
Social Work Abstract
The Social Work Abstracts database
contains more than 45,000 records, from 1977 - present, from
social work and related journals on topics such as homelessness,
AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse,
legislation, and more.
Statistical Universe
The world's most comprehensive access
to U.S. statistical information from Congressional Information
Service, Inc.
Union Lists of Periodicals
(Current). Journal bibliographic
information and Library holdings.
Wilson Select Plus
(1994-current). Contains indexed and
abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text
online.
World Almanac
The World Almanacs - fundamental
reference resources.
World Cat
Union catalog of materials held in
libraries world-wide. Coverage: Updated regularly.
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Database
Finder
Use Database Finder to search
for a list of databases recommended for Criminal Justice.
1. On the Library's home page
select Databases
2. Click the drop-down menu
Select a Subject located under Browse the Subject List of Databases
3. Scroll down to
Criminal Justice, click
Go
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Off Campus Access
Students,
faculty, and staff can access the majority of electronic databases and
indexes available at Chesnutt Library from computers located off-campus.
1. On the
Library's home page select
Off-Campus Access
(located under Services near the bottom of the page).
2. Read the
information and click
Create a PIN now
3.
Enter the requested information, including a new pin at least 4 digits
long.
4. A similar
screen will pop up prompting you to enter the PIN two more times.
5. If
successful you be in My Library Record. If you receive an error or invalid
PIN message contact the Circulation desk at 910-672-1231 for help.
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