Criminology

Criminal Justice Abstracts - Coverage: 1968 - Present.  Database of citations to resources in criminology and related disciplines, including journals, books, and reports from governmental and nongovernmental agencies.
Critical Criminology - The American Society of Criminology takes a hard look here at criminal issues in the U.S., with a particular focus on the death penalty, racial bias and prevention. Provides links to Justice Departments, publications and articles to issues in criminal justice.
Electronic Journal of Sociology
ICPSR - Lots of large databases
Justice Information Center - A service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service which provides an extensive source of information on criminal and juvenile justice.
Justice Research Association Cybrary
National Criminal Justice Information Center Corrections, Courts, Crime Prevention, Drugs, Juvenile Justice, Law Enforcement, Research, Victims
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - responds to queries from law enforcement and corrections officials, lawmakers, judges and court personnel, and researchers. Good documents and statistics as well as summaries and full text articles.
Nation Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Database--A web version of the widely available NCJRS Document Database on CD-ROM, this database contains summaries of criminal justice literature, government reports, journal articles, books, and more.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database - This searchable NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. There are a variety of search options available.
National Institute of Justice
National Institute of Justice (NIJ) - The NIJ, a component of the Office of Justice Programs, is the research and developmental agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. The Justice Technology Information Network (JUSTNET) is a service of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (http://www.nlectc.org/) which is a program of the NIJ.
National Institute of Justice Documents (GOPHER)
NCJRS Document Database - Annotated index to more than 140,000 books, articles, and other research on all non-legal aspects of crime and criminal justice.
PsychLit - Coverage: Journal Articles 1887 – present, Chapter and Books 1987 – present; Contains abstracts of the world’s literature and chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines. Covers over 1300 journals in 27 languages from approximately 50 countries and books published worldwide.
RAND - RAND is a non-profit institution that helps improve public policy through research and analysis. They provide a considerable amount of information on their criminal justice program, drug policy, courts, civil justice and more.
Sociofile - Coverage: 1974 - Present; Provides a gateway to both the theoretical and applied areas of sociology. Abstacts and indexes over 240 core sociology journals and 1600 discipline-related journals published worldwide.
University of North Texas Libraries -
UNT Electronic Library -
Western Criminology Review - free, scholarly electronic journal about crime.
World Criminal Justice Library Network
WWW Virtual Library: Sociology - Sociological Resources
 

 

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