Criminal Justice Databases
- Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
- Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including 6,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 11,000 journals and a total of 11,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women’s studies, and other fields. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals. Academic Search Complete is updated daily.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=a9h
- Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video
- "This collection contains documentaries, training videos, and interviews illustrating the strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals serving on the front lines of justice and public safety."
URL: http://lawv.alexanderstreet.com
- Criminal Justice Periodicals
- The most comprehensive database of its kind — provides information on virtually any criminal justice topic, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Full text for about 50 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers. Covering 190 titles from 1981 to date.
URL: http://search.proquest.com/criminaljusticeperiodicals/advanced
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. In many cases, these are multi-volume reference works previously only available in a physical form in the library. Now you can access them online from the library or remotely 24/7. Chicago State has access to more than 40 titles. Featured titles include Contemporary Black Biography, a 71 volume biographical reference source and International Directory of Company Histories, a massive 93 volume encyclopedia of business history.
Criminal Justice titles included in the Gale Virtual Reference Library include
- Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law. 2nd ed., 2 vols. 2006.
- Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources. 2006.
URL: http://go.galegroup.com/ps/start.do?p=GVRL&u=uiuc_csu&authCount=1
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Legal Research
- Through the integration of information and technology, LexisNexis uniquely unites proprietary brands, advanced Web technologies and premium information sources. Across the globe, LexisNexis provides customers with access to five billion searchable documents from more than 40,000 legal, news and business sources.
URL: http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/search/flap.do?flapID=legal
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications. Most documents published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies — the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy — since 1995 are available in full-text online.
URL: http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/AbstractDB/AbstractDBSearch.aspx
- Political Science Complete (EBSCO)
- New!! Provides access to 530 full-text journals, and abstracts to over 2,900 titles. Also features over 340 full-text books and over 38,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. It has a global focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=poh
- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
- A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the humanities and social sciences
- Includes 2.4 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from 1861.
- Features 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format from 1997 forward and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
- More than 60,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year.
URL: http://search.proquest.com/pqdtft/advanced?accountid=10079
- SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
- NEW!! This leading and comprehensive sociology research database provides access to 2.1 million records and contains informative abstracts for more than 1,300 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. It covers all sub-disciplines of sociology and includes sources for related fields such as criminology & criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, social work, substance abuse & other addictions, and violence.
URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=sih
