The best database for criminal justice! Everyone should search here for all CJ papers! Please check the "Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals" feature before searching
Provides abstracts of articles from the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, as well as books and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.
A special part of Google that finds mainly scholarly articles and books.
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Once you set your institutional preferences, links to full-text, if available at Penn State, should appear.
PSU Library's main search tool! Searches for all types of sources in all disciplines. Please checkmark the "Scholarly" filter to limit your search to scholarly articles.
This database offers reviews that summarize hundreds of scholarly articles and books about CJ topics! Great place to start your research.
The complete texts of the Oxford Handbooks in multiple disciplines and subject areas. These Handbooks contain in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Handbooks are an excellent source for reviews of literature around major themes. PSU subscribed subjects include Business & Management, Classical Studies, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Economics & Finance, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
Includes scholarly journal articles and government research reports. Corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. Coverage: The time period covered is from the early 1970's to the present.
Psychology articles. Good for criminology, relationships, motivations.
PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
Useful for any aspect of group behavior, such as group crime, gangs, violence, drug issues, schools, media.
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles.
Find law reviews (legal journals) here, great for court-related topics. Click "Search by Subject or Topic" and select "Law Reviews."
Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Covers many news sources for 20 years. Court cases and statutes from all federal and state jurisdictions are included. Most resources can be searched in full text.
An education database useful for juvenile delinquency, school violence, rehabilitation programs, counseling.
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the major database for education literature, sponsored by the U.S. Department. of Education. The same database content is available on many platforms.
Go at the Green Light: Scholarly Journal Articles
Scholarly journal articles (also called peer-reviewed, academic, refereed) are the premium sources in the field of criminal justice. Are the following sources scholarly, trade, or popular? Please give three reasons why you think each source is scholarly, trade, or popular: