Criminal Justice Databases

Getting Started:

• Academic Search Elite
  Index to over 8 million articles published in over 3000 periodicals, including 2500 peer-reviewed journals representing all disciplines. Also includes the full-text of the artices from over 1500 peer-reviewed journals and 500 general periodicals.
  
  

Most Comprehensive:

• Criminal Justice Abstracts
  Citations to journals, 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 National Criminal Justice Research Service of the U.S. Department of Justice.

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