Articles Databases / Indexes
General Articles Databases / Indexes
- Academic Search Complete (about)
- OhioLINK Quick Search (about)
- OmniFile Full Text Mega (about)
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Criminal Justice Articles Databases / Indexes
- Criminal Justice Abstracts (online)
Indexes international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Areas covered include trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing .- Criminal Justice Periodical Index (online)
Criminal Justice Periodical Index provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law.- Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection (online)
Includes the full-text of 17 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 5,000 articles. It covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.- NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) (online)
NCJRS-Produced by the U.S. National Institute of Justice, this online database indexes and abstracts journals, reports, and documents from all levels of government and the private sector relating to criminal justice and law enforcement. Topics such as victims of crime, death penalty, child abuse, youth gangs, and statistics are included. Most documents published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies since 1995 are available in full text.- Scopus (online)
Indexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature. Scopus covers 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, providing access to over 25 million abstracts going back to 1966 and 5 years of cited reference back years, building up to 10 years by the end of 2005.- SIRS Researcher (online)
Contains selected full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and government publications. Look here for articles on a variety of topics such as environmental, social, economic, political, and global issues.Additional Criminal Justice Articles Databases / Indexes from University of Cincinnati Libraries
Books
Searching for Books
Books, as all library materials, can be found through the Library Catalog using Title, Author, Subject, Keyword, or other numeric index searches.
Using the Library's Catalog, students can check on an item's location, availability, and bibliographic information.The Library Catalog is University wide; however, all searches can be limited to only materials owned by the RWC Library.
RWC students can borrow all available materials from any UC libraries, as well as all available materials through the OhioLINK Catalog. The OhioLINK Catalog is a statewide library catalog consisting of library materials from colleges, universities, and public libraries throughout Ohio. To request materials from libraries other than the RWC Library, use the convenient online requests option to request available materials.
Common Subject Headings
New Criminal Justice Titles at RWC with Reviews
Additional Criminal Justice Books from UC Libraries
Citations & Style Guides
Dictionaries & Thesauri
- Black’s Law Dictionary - REF KF156 .B53 1999 (print)
Definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modernAdditional Criminal Justice Dictionaries & Thesauri from UC Libraries
Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia of American Prisons - REF HV9471 .S54 2003 (print)
- Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice - REF HV 6017 .E52 2002 (print)
- Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment - REF HV 6017 .E524 2002 (print)
- Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice - REF HV 9104 .E58 2002 (print)
- Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement - REF HV7921 .E53 2005 (print)
- Encyclopedia of Murder & Violent Crime - REF HV 6515 .E5323 2003 (print)
- Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities - REF HV 9471 .E693 2005 (print)
- Encyclopedia of Rape - REF HV6558 .E53 2004 (print)
- Encyclopedia of Terrorism - REF HV 6431 .K883 2003 (print)
- Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime - REF HV 6768 .E63 2005 (print)
Additional Criminal Justice Encyclopedias from UC Libraries
Handbooks
- The Blackwell Companion to Criminology - REF HV 6025 .B544 2004 (print)
Contains 26 essays covering Crime, Justice and Societies -- Juvenile Delinquency and Justice for Youth -- Punishment and Its Alternatives -- Gender and the Masculinity of Crime -- Capital, Power and Prime -- Globalization, Crime and Information
Journals
Journals, as all library periodicals, can be found through the Library Catalog using Title, Subject, Keyword , or other numeric index searches. Using the Library Catalog, students can check on a journal's location, availability, and holdings.
Full-Text Journals
All full-text journals can be found through the Library's Full Text Journal List using Title or ISSN searches, or browsed by subject.
Additional Criminal Justice Journals from UC Libraries
Societies & Associations
- American Academy of Forensic Science (online)
- American Society of Criminology (online)
Statistics & Data Sets
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (online)
Tables of data on criminal justice and related topics collected from governmental and private agencies- Uniform Crime Reports 1998 to Present (online)
National crime statistics for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management, including offenses cleared, persons arrested, homicide patterns, and law enforcement personnelAdditional Criminal Justice Statistics & Data Sets from UC Libraries
Web Sites
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
The mission of Librarians' Index to the Internet is to provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources- United States Department of Justice
- Bureau of Justice Statistics Publications
- Federal Bureau of Investigation - Organized Crime
- United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network
Contains U.N. criminal justice country profiles, U.S. Department of Justice sources, recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the “World Criminal Justice Library Network,” foreign and international law, criminological institutes, and libraries- Yale University's Genocide Studies Program
MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies conducts research, seminars and conferences on comparative, interdisciplinary, and policy issues relating to the phenomenon of genocide,
Additional Criminal Justice Web Sites from UC Libraries
Additional Criminal Justice Resources from UC Libraries
This page was last modified on 08/20/2008 by Michelle McKinney.