LMU Libraries LibGuides: Criminal Justice Resources: Research

Reference Books

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Credo Reference Collection
Provides access to the full text of hundreds of top quality reference books in all major subjects ranging from art and literature to psychology and social sciences to religion and technology, as well as bilingual and biographical dictionaries. Provides access to a multitude of Topic Pages on various subjects, which include subject overviews as well as links to associated journal articles, resources from e-books, and relevant images.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, this database provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the series contains information for evaluating test products in psychology, education, business and leadership.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) “is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. The NCJRS sponsoring agencies publish hundreds of reports and other information products each year. Most of the titles are available online through the NCJRS Web site. NCJRS hosts one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world, the NCJRS Abstracts Database. The collection, with holdings from the early 1970s to the present, contains more than 190,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.”
Statistical Abstract of the United States
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. For more information, follow this link to the Statistical Abstract of the U.S. LibGuide.

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General Databases

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,800 journals, including full text for more than 12,000 peer-reviewed titles. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for nearly 140 journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, up-to-date and easy-to-use resource for serious academic research. It is home to nearly 14,000 indexed titles, including more than 10,000 peer-reviewed journals and more than 6,500 in full-text. Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects makes Academic OneFile both authoritative and comprehensive.
JSTOR
JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a shared digital library of selected scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences, and sciences. It currently includes more than 2,300 academic journals, dating back to the first volume ever published to about 3-5 years ago, along with thousands of monographs and other materials relevant for education. We have digitized more than 50 million pages and continue to digitize approximately 3 million pages annually.

Additional Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text is a comprehensive database of criminal justice journals covering law enforcement and related fields in the United States and throughout the world. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, criminal administration, corrections and prisons, forensic sciences and investigation, probation and parole, and industrial security. The database includes abstract and indexing for 600 titles, with more than 320 available in full-text.
Criminal Justice Collection
Provides access tom ore than 700 professional and academic journals in the areas of law enforcement, legal and paralegal studies, issues related to Homeland Security, and more.
PsycARTICLES
Full text coverage of 116 journals published by the American Psychological Association and affliated Canadian and European publishers. Broad coverage of research in the areas of psychology, group dynamics, behavioral health, and related sciences.
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This comprehensive resource is an essential tool for psychologists, counselors, researchers and students, providing extensive full-text coverage for a broad range of subjects in the fields of psychology, behavioral sciences and related disciplines. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection provides access to more than 530 full-text journals and nearly 350 full-text journals with citations in PsycINFO.
PsycINFO
This database is the world's largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it is an indispensable tool for the discovery of global scholarly research. This ever-expanding collection of behavioral and social science research, dissertations and scholarly literature abstracts offers a broad view of the field. With relevance to a host of related disciplines, including neuroscience, business, nursing, law and education, PsycINFO delivers the peer-reviewed content and abstracts students and researchers need, and does so with remarkable precision and a dedication to scholarly and scientific excellence.
SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. In addition to nearly 900 full-text journals, it contains informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. The database also provides data mined from priority coverage journals and selective coverage journals. Complete with extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources, the database also includes searchable cited references.
U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978, this product provides an essential primary source tool for the study of all aspects of American history as well as the U.S. judicial system.
War and Terrorism Collection
Researchers accessing the more than 1.7 million articles in the War and Terrorism Collection will gain valuable insight into conflicts and their causes, impact and perception on a global scale. This definitive collection for researchers of history, social science and current events covers 100 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals that are updated daily, including: Airport Security Report, International Peace Update, Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin, Terrorism in the United States and more.

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Academic Web Search Engines

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.

Note: To configure your preferences for Lincoln Memorial University:
In Google Scholar, click on the 3 bars at the top left of the page
Choose Settings from the drop box
Select "Library links" (on left).
Type "Lincoln Memorial University" in box and select "Lincoln Memorial University Library -LMULibraryFullText " and "LMU TEL" (keep WorldCat checked)
Save.

RefSeek
Searches the web for academic pages or documents. RefSeek also provides a nice directory of online reference sources.
Microsoft Academic Search
Similar to Google Scholar, with some fun visualization options.

Criminal Justice Resources: Research

Criminal Justice: Research

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