LibGuides: Criminal Justice: CJ Databases/Articles

Suggested Databases

Databases come from the Criminal Justice and/or Sociology subjects on the main databases page. The following list resources are considered core research databases for Criminal Justice research.

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Criminology & related disciplines, crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. International coverage, 1910-present.
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
Criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. Coverage: 1981-present
NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts) This link opens in a new window
Corrections, courts, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, drugs, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims. 1970 to present.
Sociology Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Sociology, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, and welfare. Dates: 1895 to present
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Sociology, anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, political science, demography, and social psychology.
1966 to present, abstracts 1977 to present
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Anthropology, community health and medicine, economics, environmental sciences, geography, international relations, law and criminology, police science, planning & public administration, psychology, psychiatry, political science, sociology, & social work.

Related Databases/Journal Packages:

PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Peer reviewed journal articles and books in psychology, counseling and related fields, such as sociology, linguistics, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, and anthropology. Includes international material selected from more than 2,500 periodicals in more than 27 languages. 1887-present.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Communication Studies, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Wiley Online Library Full Collection that provides full text access to over 1300 Wiley and Blackwell journals.
1997 to present, with select titles back to volume 1.

Tips for Finding Empirical Research

Only a few databases have a simple methods to locate empirical research. Using "empirical" as a keyword will find some studies, but miss others. Consider using terminology recommended by the Criminal Justice Abstracts and Sociological Abstriace subject indexes.

Some useful keywords to add to your search are:

Case Studies
Empirical Methods
Empirical Research
Ethnography
Experiments
Fieldwork
Grounded Theory
Interviews
Qualitative Methods
Qualitative Research
Quantitative Methods
Quantitative Research
Surveys
Research

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