Criminal Justice: Services & Info

To gather background information on your topic and to learn about research and scholarship in the field are good reasons to start with reference material.

For Social Science research, a good starting point is the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences which besides sociology includes:

You can try Credo Reference, an online database with approximately 400 reference books, including:

• encyclopedias
• dictionaries (English and foreign language)
• thesauri
• books of quotations

as well as a range of subject-specific reference books including Sociology.

Oxford Bibliographies provides a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in the Oxford Bibliographies database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations.