Research and Course Guides: Public Safety Leadership: Finding Articles

Criminal Justice Databases

These databases are the ones you should use to start your search for research articles.

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Criminal Justice Abstracts provides comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. This version provides full-text for approximately 200 criminal justice journals.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
SocINDEX with Full Text identifies resources in the field of sociology and related subject areas. It indexes over 3000 journals and provides full text for 890 journals, several dating back to 1908. It also includes full text for over 850 books and monographs, as well as over 16,800 conference reports. It also includes a thesaurus of sociological terms.

Lexis-Nexis Legal Research
Search full text federal, state & international legal materials including case law, statutes and regulations, legal news and law reviews. Click on the center box Look up a Legal Case.

HeinOnline Law Journal Library This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline is a collection of resources ranging from law review articles to a wide range of foreign and domestic legal documents. Highlights include the Law Journals Library (American law review articles from the inception of the journal), Federal Register Library (vol. 1, 1936 - current), U.S. Supreme Court Library, full-text Restatements, treaty collections, and legislative history documents.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts This link opens in a new window
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Database contains summaries of the more than 200,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection. This database is sponsored by several departments within the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy and includes information on resources published by these agencies.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text research on a wide range of education topics. Includes peer-reviewed journals, books, research syntheses, conference papers, technical reports, and much more.
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of management topics, including human resources, operations, and library & information management. Also contains journals that focus on marketing, finance, information technology, international company & industry information, education, public policy & environmental management, and tourism & hospitality management.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Full text for thousands of peer-reviewed journals and general interest sources across many subject areas.