Liaison Librarian
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This guide is designed for undergraduate students enrolled in criminal justice courses. Here you will find key resources for research in criminal justice as well as information about doing successful research and citing your sources
If you have questions, please reach out to your liaison librarian, stop by the reference desk, or utilize our 24/7 chat.
Key Resources
Use OneSearch to search many of our library databases at once, along with our print and ebook collections, video collections, and more. Note that OneSearch defaults to retrieving only materials we have in full text; to see more results you can obtain through Interlibrary Loan, simply click the slider next to Expand My Results on the left side of your results screen.
Also try searching in the databases listed below.
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals as well as general interest sources. Multidisciplinary. A good place to start your research.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Contains some 300,000 articles selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Subject areas include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.