Research Guides: Criminal Justice Research Guide: Find Journal Articles

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Criminal Justice/Criminology Databases

Essential Databases

Criminal Justice (CJ) Abstracts This link opens in a new window Index with abstracts of the major scholarly journals, books, and reports in criminology and related disciplines. This is the best place to search for scholarly article citations.
ProQuest Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window Provides information on criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal law. Contains full text of selected scholarly journals.

Other Resources

Criminology Collection This link opens in a new window The Criminology Collection includes the full-text of volume one to the present for select journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Articles cover such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, and Forensic Psychology.
Sage Premier / Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window SAGE Premier provides access to hundreds of SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences, with backfile to 1999.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window ScienceDirect is the world's largest scientific database. ScienceDirect provides full-text access to journals in various science disciplines. Note: Does not support IE 8 or older versions.
SpringerLINK This link opens in a new window Publisher database with full-text access to library-subscribed titles.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window Search and browse millions of articles from thousands of journals, books, and other materials in the areas of life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. Subjects range from Agriculture, Business, and Chemistry to Criminology, Nursing, and Psychology.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window ProQuest search interface for NCJRS. The National Criminal Justice Reference Service is the research library of the Department of Justice. This database provides summaries of criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Many of the publications from 1995 forward are full-text.
Gale Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window Gale Academic OneFile with OneFile Collections provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
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Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice informs the research process for researchers who are studying law, law enforcement, or terrorism; training for paralegal service; preparing for a career in homeland security; delving into forensic science; investigating crime scenes; developing policy; going to court; writing sociological reports; and much more.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window Huge collection of full-text articles in back issues of journals in most subject areas. Review dates and journals included by subject and alphabetically.

FBI Records: The Vault The Vault is the FBI's FOIA Library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies. Included here are many new FBI files that have been released to the public but never added to this website; dozens of records previously posted on our site but removed as requests diminished; files from the FBI's previous FOIA Library, and new, previously unreleased files.
NCJRS New Office of Justice Programs Website A federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
National Institute of Corrections Library The library provides access to over 18,000 corrections-related resources including training plans, research reports, program evaluations and more.

Security Studies Databases/Internet Resources

Essential Databases

ProQuest Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window Provides information on criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal law. Contains full text of selected scholarly journals.
Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window Digital National Security Archive unlocks important declassified U.S. government documents, providing vital primary source material to advance research in twentieth and twenty-first century history, politics, and international relations in over 40 topic-based collections, with two new collections added each year. More than 650,000 pages are included, with many gathered through extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act by The Archive.
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) This link opens in a new window Documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA, and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) This link opens in a new window The National Criminal Justice Reference Service is the research library of the Department of Justice. This database provides summaries of criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. Many of the publications from 1995 forward are full-text.
Criminal Justice (CJ) Abstracts This link opens in a new window Index with abstracts of the major scholarly journals, books, and reports in criminology and related disciplines. This is the best place to search for scholarly article citations.
Criminology Collection This link opens in a new window The Criminology Collection includes the full-text of volume one to the present for select journals published by SAGE and participating societies. Articles cover such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, and Forensic Psychology.

Other Resources

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Bioterrorism: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention This website contains an A-Z list of bioterrorism agents, first responder, laboratory and surveillance information, preparation and planning recommendations, and training videos.
Department of Homeland Security The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was established in the wake of the September 11th attacks with the core responsibility to keep our nation safe. Over the past 19 years, DHS has evolved into the third largest Cabinet agency with over 250,000 dedicated professionals carrying out our mission through more than 20 component agencies.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) leads the national effort to understand, manage, and reduce risk to cyber and physical infrastructure.
Terrorism and Mass Violence: Office for Victims of Crime This website includes publications, training & technical assistance resources, and domestic/international terrorism information.
Terrorist Explosive Device Analytical Center (TEDAC) The FBI's TEDAC is an interagency organization intended to receive, analyze, and exploit all terrorist explosive devices or IEDs of interest to the United States. TEDAC coordinates efforts of law enforcement, intelligence and military to gather and share forensic data and intelligence helping to disarm and disrupt IEDs and prevent future attacks.

Current Affairs in Video This link opens in a new window 500+ hours of award-winning films and documentaries provide an interdisciplinary, multi-regional look at core areas such as environmental policy; health policy; human rights, international justice and terrorism; institutional corruption; migration and the global economy; poverty; religious tension and conflict
IEEE Xplore Digital Library (IEEE/IET Electronic Library) This link opens in a new window The IEEE Xplore Digital Library is the premier database for research in electrical engineering, electronics, computer science and related disciplines. IEEE Xplore includes full-text access to over 5 million documents, including IEEE journals, magazines, conferences, and standards, as well as IET journals, magazines, and conferences with a backfile to the late 1800s for select titles.

FBI Records: The Vault The Vault is the FBI's FOIA Library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies. Included here are many new FBI files that have been released to the public but never added to this website; dozens of records previously posted on our site but removed as requests diminished; files from the FBI's previous FOIA Library, and new, previously unreleased files.

Victim Studies Databases/Internet Resources

Essential Databases

Criminal Justice (CJ) Abstracts This link opens in a new window Index with abstracts of the major scholarly journals, books, and reports in criminology and related disciplines. This is the best place to search for scholarly article citations.
ProQuest Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window Provides information on criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal law. Contains full text of selected scholarly journals.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window Comprehensive and high-quality sociology research database containing informative abstracts for "core" journals dating as far back as 1895. Also includes extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window PsycINFO(R) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window A source for full-text, peer-reviewed articles in psychology and the behavioral sciences, containing all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from numerous journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprints, and allied organizations.

Other Resources

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Center for Victim Research The Center for Victim Research was created to meet the need for increased data, evidence-based practices, and program evaluation for victim service providers, policymakers, and funders in order to improve policies, programs and practices. The OVR online library includes over 1,000 public access documents, victim research, data, podcasts, and webinars.
Victims of Crime: U.S. Department of Justice The Office of Justice Programs is a federal agency that provides federal leadership, grants, training, technical assistance and other resources to improve the nation’s capacity to prevent and reduce crime, assist victims and enhance the rule of law by strengthening the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
Help for Victims: Office for Victims of Crime Part of the federal government's Office for Victims of Crime, this organization serves to increase awareness on victims’ rights, educate the public on the impact of crime, and promote crime victim resources. This website provides a wealth of resources including links to websites, publications, databases and hotlines. The site also includes photos and brief testimonials.
Justice for Victims: Office of Justice Programs The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) site provides a helpful crime victimization glossary as well as information on a variety of related topics, many relevant OVC and Office of Justice Programs publications; OVC, Federal and Non-Governmental Resources; and a list of Victim Advocacy Programs.
Victims of Crime: Bureau of Justice Statistics The Bureau of Justice Statistics webpage on crime victims includes the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). This site also provides access to research, victim statistics, crime trends and statistics, offender statistics, crime reporting statistics, and victim service provider information.
National Center for Victims of Crime The mission of the National Center for Victims of Crime is to forge a national commitment to help victims of crime rebuild their lives and is dedicated to serving individuals, families, and communities harmed by crime.

Additional Databases

Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Full-text journals in many disciplines across the sciences and humanities. SHSU subscribes to "Project Muse Premium."
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window A source for full-text, peer-reviewed articles in psychology and the behavioral sciences, containing all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from numerous journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA), its imprints, and allied organizations.
Gale OneFile: Psychology This link opens in a new window Gale OneFile: Psychology supports research in all fields of psychology: abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social, and all areas of applied psychology. Researchers, psychologists, counselors, and behavioral scientists will discover relevant information from the thoughts, views, discoveries, and reports found in this comprehensive collection.
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ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides data resources, data delivery mechanisms, user support and training in quantitative methods. The data is acquired from individual researchers, governmental agencies, polling agencies and international sources. Provides data in SAS, SPSS and Stata data files.
Social Sciences Citation Index (part of Web of Science) This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary database indexing social sciences journals in many disciplines, as well as relevant references from scientific and technical periodicals. International in scope. Because the information about each article includes the article's cited reference list (i.e., the bibliography), you can also search for articles that cite a particular author or work. Searching for cited references often locates relevant articles that cannot be found through traditional searching techniques.
Reference Universe This link opens in a new window Simultaneously search articles in over 50,000 specialized subject encyclopedias and scholarly compendia, both print and digital. This resource gives you full access to the library's authoritative collection of introductory content, helping you to save time and obtain a full grounding in your topic.
UlrichsWeb Global Serials Directory This link opens in a new window UlrichsWeb is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription.
Dissertations at Sam Houston State University This link opens in a new window Provides full text of dissertations from Sam Houston State University produced from 1978 to present. Does not include SHSU master's theses. Authorized users from SHSU may download copies free.

Google Scholar

Government Websites

Bureau of Justice Statistics (Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics)

F.B.I. (Crime in the United States)

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

National Institute of Justice

Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics

U.S. Department of Justice

SHSU Government Documents

Legal Databases

Westlaw This link opens in a new window Westlaw provides access to cases from the courts of all 50 states and the federal courts, statutes from all 50 states and federal statutes. Contains full text of American Law Reports and numerous law reviews. This is the best place to start legal research.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window More than 100 million pages of legal history in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. Comprehensive coverage, from inception, of more than 2,000 law and law-related periodicals, as well as many current and historical government documents.
Legal Source This link opens in a new window Includes scholarly law journals, scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. Covers topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment, and more. International scope covers U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Gale Legal Forms This link opens in a new window
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Note: These forms do not replace legal advice. Users should consult an attorney for serious legal matters.
Thousands of legal forms available with more forms being added daily. Official, State Specific, Federal, Business, Personal, Real Estate and General forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues. Forms include "official" forms for many states, as well as forms drafted by participating companies and attorneys.

Streaming Video

Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video This link opens in a new window Video for professionals and students in criminal justice and public safety. Documentaries and interviews provide personal field experiences as well as insight into the function and controversies of the justice system. Training videos demonstrate how to respond to potentially-dangerous situations. Features titles by In the Line of Duty, BBC, and A&E Television.
Academic Video Online: Premium This link opens in a new window Thousands of hours of streaming video in most disciplines. Many videos include interactive text transcripts.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Read Quick-Start: How to Link to a Film, or Films on Demand: A Guide for SHSU Users
Instant access to thousands of educational films, ranging from almost every academic discipline to life-skills content. Select films include closed-captioning and/or interactive text transcripts. Roll over the video player and click ""CC"" button at upper right for captions.

Forensic Science Journals and Databases

Journal of Forensic Sciences 2006-present This link opens in a new window
Journal of Forensic Sciences Backfiles, 1972-2005 This link opens in a new window
Guide: How to access full text; these backfiles will NOT be linked from database searches.
Note: We do not have access to other journals/content on this platform.

Forensic Science Research Guide (Databases)