LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Getting Started

Government Documents Librarian

Contact:

UTSA Libraries -- Main Campus
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, Texas 78249

210-458-7572

Subjects:Anthropology, Criminal Justice, Geography, Government, Languages, Modern, Law, Mexican-American Studies, Newspapers, Spanish

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 Get It For Me button button.

Academic Search Complete
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.
Criminal Justice Database
This database provides to articles in nearly 60 criminal justice journals and newsletters and article abstracts for an additional 140 periodicals.
Criminology: A Sage Full-text Collection
Provides articles from a number of journals on topics in criminology.
FORENSICnetBASE/LawENFORCEMENTnetBASE
Provides full-text access to over 150 forensic and criminal justice reference works.
Nexis Uni
Nexis 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.
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.
ProQuest
Provides journal and newspaper articles across all subject areas.
Social Services Abstracts
Focuses on sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavior sciences.
PsycINFO (ProQuest)
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. Includes links to full-text articles available from Psychology Database and PsycArticles.
USA.gov
USA.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.

Searching the Catalog

Library Quick Search
Limit to "Book" as Content Type in Library Quick Search to find print and e-books.

Search the Catalog to locate books, journal titles (not articles), government documents, maps, and multimedia materials available at UTSA Library using expert keywords, the author, LC subject headings, or book or journal titles.

Find Items By	Search Examples
expert keyword	"criminal behavior" and biology "criminal behavior" and (city or cities or urban)
author (last name first name)	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