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Get Started in Criminal Justice Research

Welcome to the research guide for Criminal Justice. The resources below are a great place to start your research.

Use the menu on the left to find additional resources for finding books, articles, and more.

Find Articles

Start with these databases:

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
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Provides scholarly and popular periodicals from most academic areas of study and includes many full-text articles.
Criminal Justice Abstracts w/ Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive coverage of journals, books and agency reports in criminology and related disciplines.
Criminal Justice Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and magazines on topics in criminal justice and related fields. Key subjects covered in the database include law, law enforcement, security, and terrorism.
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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The nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy and organizational management. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School.
Lexis-Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to current news, business, legal, and reference information.
War and Terrorism Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. The database offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.

Top journals for Research in Criminal Justice

This is a small sample of Criminal Justice journals available online through library databases. Search for more journals through the Library Discovery System (Primo)

American Journal of Criminal Justice
A peer reviewed publication offering research on a wide array of criminal justice topics and issues. Official journal of the SCJA.
British Journal of Criminology
One of the world's top criminology journals; publishes work of the highest quality from around the world and across all areas of criminology.
Crime & Delinquency
Peer-reviewed, policy-oriented journal offering a wide range of research and analysis for the scholar and professional in criminology and criminal justice.
Journal of Crime and Justice
Journal reflects the current concerns and latest research of Criminology and Criminal Justice scholars and advance discussion of these issues.
Journal of Criminal Justice
An international journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the criminal justice area.
Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency
A peer-reviewed, bi-monthly journal of articles, research notes, review essays and special issues to keep you up-to-date on contemporary issues and controversies within the criminal justice field.

Find Books

Search the Library Catalog and ebook databases to find books on your topic

Library Catalog

JSTOR Open Access eBooks This link opens in a new window
JSTOR Open Access eBooks reflect JSTOR’s high standards for quality content. They are freely available for anyone in the world to use. Each ebook carries one of six Creative Commons licenses determined by the publisher. The titles are easy to use, with no DRM restrictions and no limits on chapter PDF downloads or printing. Users will not need to register or log in to JSTOR.
eBook Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to 243,158 titles in the sciences, social sciences, humanities and business.

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