LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Find Criminal Justice Articles/Databases

Recommended Journals

American Journal of Criminal Justice: Covers criminal justice topics and issues. (Peer Reviewed)
Criminal Justice Studies: Covers substantive criminal justice and criminological issues. (Peer Reviewed)
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology: Covers debate and dialogue on current criminal law & criminology issues. (Peer Reviewed)
Criminal Justice and Behavior: Covers the effects of the criminal justice system on human behavior. (Peer Reviewed)
International Criminal Justice Review: Covers system wide trends & problems on crime & justice throughout the world. (Peer Reviewed)

Recommended Databases for Criminal Justice

The following list of databases are recommended for Criminal Justice majors to find journal articles, news & magazine articles, etc. For a full list of available databases, visit the All Databases page.

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
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This resource includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology.
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center
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Content includes hundreds of full-text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, FAQs, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security
Military and Government Collection
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A collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent offering current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
Contains summaries of the more than 210,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection.

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window
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Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as alerts and saved
searches and a collaborative work-space with shared folders and annotated documents.

Political Science Complete
Contains full text for more than 530 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals. Has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse.
Social Sciences Full Text
Contains full-text articles from hundreds of journals, covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.