Criminal Justice Research - Best Bets
- Criminal Justice Database (ProQuest)Indexing, abstracting, and selective full-text of research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Coverage includes U.S. and international scholarly journals; corrections and correctional and law enforcement trade publications; and reports, news, crime statistics, and crime blogs.
- HeinOnlineHeinOnline is a premier online research platform that provides more than 192 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, international resources, case law, and much more. Composed of fully searchable image-based PDFs and available at an affordable price, the wealth of material allows academic institutions, government agencies, law firms, court systems, corporations, and other organizations access to authoritative, true-to-print digital material without the hassle or cost of using multiple research databases.
Every document across HeinOnline’s 100+ databases is an exact facsimile of its print counterpart, providing access to original, authoritative sources as well as the ease and speed that accompanies online searching. - Social Science Premium CollectionThis collection provides access to databases covering international literature in social sciences, including politics, public policy, sociology, social work, anthropology, criminology, linguistics, library science, and education. Featured databases include IBSS, Sociological Abstracts and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more.
- PsycINFOProvides access to abstracts, citations, articles, books, and dissertations in the psychological, social, and behavioral sciences. Includes all American Psychological Association journals.
- Sociological CollectionIndexing full-text articles from 500+ scholarly/peer-reviewed journals back to 1975 in all areas of sociology including social behavior, relationships and social structure. Updated daily.
- Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science Core Collection indexes primary journals and article citations in several databases spanning a wide range of disciplines.
Journals for Criminal Justice
Top ten criminal justice scholarly journals, according to Journal Citation Reports. Each title is linked to online subscription provided by UK Libraries.
Understanding Journal Articles
- How to Read a Social Science Journal ArticleGuide from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- How to Read a Scientific StudyA (mostly) visual guide to types of studies and an explanation of the parts of a journal article.
- How to Read a Sociological Journal Article for BeginnersFrom the Everyday Sociology blog.
- Strategies for Reading an Academic JournalVisual guide from the blog of the American Association of School Librarians.
Googling Gray Literature Sources
Include your topic keywords, along with the word research report. Consider limiting to .org or .gov domain. Consider limiting to PDF filetype
Example: community violence research report site:.org filetype:pdf
Gray Literature from Organizations, Advocacy Groups, and Think Tanks
- Think Tank SearchA Google Custom Search of 1,200+ think tanks and research centers from advocacy groups, governments, universities, and non-governmental organizations. Partisan and non-partisan think tanks are included.
Conference Papers and Proceedings (Gray Literature)
- Conference Proceedings Citation Index - ScienceIndexes the published literature from the most significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions worldwide, including citation searching.
- F1000 ResearchArticles and other research outputs reporting basic scientific, scholarly, translational and clinical research across the physical and life sciences, engineering, medicine, social sciences and humanities
