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Criminality and Criminal Justice
Databases and websites for articles, books and statistics for information on criminal justice
Government Documents Librarian
Rita Wilson
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Key Databases
Use these indexes and databases to find articles in both professional and scholarly journals. An article that is not available in full text can be requested by clicking on the 
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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)Provides full text for 3,400 publications, including Criminology and Public Policy, Legal and Criminological Psychology, Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling, Federal Probation, Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, Crime and Delinquency, and International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology.
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Criminal Justice DatabaseThis database provides to articles in nearly 60 criminal justice journals and newsletters and article abstracts for an additional 140 periodicals.
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Criminology: A Sage Full-text CollectionProvides articles from a number of journals on topics in criminology.
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FORENSICnetBASE/LawENFORCEMENTnetBASEProvides full-text access to over 150 forensic and criminal justice reference works.
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Hein Online: Civil Rights and Social JusticeContaining publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, legislative histories on landmark legislation, briefs from relevant U.S. Supreme Court cases, and more, this database covers civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.
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Hein Online: Gun Regulation and Legislation in AmericaThis timely database brings together essential periodicals, compiled legislative histories, CRS reports, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, monographs, and other related materials on the difficult and controversial topic of regulating firearms in the United States. It also includes an extensive bibliography and a balanced selection of external resources to further research this subject.
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Hein Online: Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & LawIncludes all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, as well as materials on free African-Americans in the colonies and the U.S. before 1870. Search the entire database or browse by slavery statutes (state and federal), judicial cases, scholarly articles, e-books, bibliography, and external links.
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)A free web database that indexes 160,000 journal articles, about 7,000 full text. There are mainly government publications, dating from 1966 to the present.
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Nexis UniNexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) provides full text access to 15,000 news, business and legal sources including U.S. Federal and State case law, statutes and regulations; law journals; U.S. and international news; and company and industry financial information. Create a free Nexis Uni profile in order to access personal folders, alerts, and a collaborative workspace. Updated daily.
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PsycINFO (EBSCO)Covers professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. Contains over two million citations and summaries of articles from journals, books, book chapters, dissertations, and technical reports.
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Sage Research Methods OnlineContains content on research methods from books, journals and reference sources; research methods videos, tutorials, and more; case studies showing how research methods are applied; and practice datasets from actual research. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SRMO focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more. Includes entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series.
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Social Services AbstractsFocuses on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavior sciences.
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Sociological AbstractsFocuses on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, drawing from more than 1,800 journals as well as conference papers, books, and dissertations.
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USA.govUSA.gov is the U.S. government's official web portal to all federal, state, and local government web resources and services, as well as those of cross-government agencies and tribal governments. Provides access to over 100,000 government websites. Search the official Spanish language web portal of the U.S. Government at USAGov en español . For similar resources, see also govinfo and GPO Monthly Catalog.
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U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports & TestimoniesAn independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog." GAO investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars.
Search Library QuickSearch
Use Library Quick Search to search for books, articles, videos across many databases at once.
Search Google Scholar
Use Google Scholar to search for scholarly papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, and technical reports from many disciplines. Results come from a variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, and universities, as well as scholarly articles from the Web. Google Scholar provides direct linking to full text content in many UTSA Libraries' subscription databases.
Sample Keyword Searches
| Find Items By | Search Examples |
|---|---|
| advanced keyword |
"criminal behavior" and biology "criminal behavior" and (city or cities or urban) "restorative justice" and "domestic violence" "incarcerated parents" |
| author (use advanced search) | Walens Susann |
| LC Subject Heading |
Criminal Law Prison Administration United States |
| book or journal title |
Punishment & Society Justice Quarterly Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology |