Criminal Justice Databases

Getting Started:

• Academic Search Elite
  Search for articles published in a few, key journals covering all disciplines. more info

Most Comprehensive:

• Criminal Justice Abstracts
  Search for journal articles, books and reports in criminology and related disciplines. Search Tips & Guide.
• NCJRS Abstracts
  Citations to government reports, books, journal articles and research reports compiled by the government's National Criminal Justice Research Service. Also available via the U.S. Department of Justice.
• Search Both CJ Abstracts & NCJRS
  Seach both of the above databases at the same time via the CSA Web site.

Other Useful Databases:

• Lexis-Nexis Academic Search
  Full-text access to newspaper and magazine articles, federal and state legislation and case law, business and medical information, and much more.
• NCJRS Virtual Library
  Full-text of government reports compiled by the National Criminal Justice Research Service of the U.S. Department of Justice.
• Social Sciences Full Text
  Searches the abstracts (descriptions) of 700,000 articles published in 600 leading social science journals from 1984 to the present.
• ICPSR Data Sets
  The Inter-univeristy Consortium for Political and Social Research provides access to research data sets gathered by governments, academic researchers, non-profit organizations and other organizations. Data sets generally include individual responses to surveys, and need to be analyzed using a program like SPSS. [guide]

See Also:

• Criminal Justice Subject Guide
• Statistics and Data
• Law/Legal Issues databases
• Social Work databases
• Statistics and Data