Criminal Justice

Journal Articles:

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
• SocINDEX with Full Text
• Lexis/Nexis Academic
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS)
• PsycArticles
• PsycInfo
• Wiley InterScience
• ProQuest Newsstand (newspapers, including Press Democrat, S.F. Chronicle, NY Times)

Journal Titles (search by journal title) :

• Snoopy Library Catalog

Books in this and other libraries :

• Snoopy Library Catalog
• LINK+
• Melvyl (UC Libraries)
• WorldCat

Request from other libraries:

• LINK+ (books only)
• Interlibrary Services (books & articles)

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries :
(for background information)

• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Search Snoopy:
  • by keyword,
  • crim* encyclopedia
    (Crim*=crime, criminals, criminology, etc.)
• Crime/Human Rights Law Dictionaries Online

 

Subject Web Guides:

• The Redwood Highway:
  Crime, Law and Related   Links on the Web
• Criminal Justice Links
• Librarians Index to the Internet: Crime; Prisons or Corrections
• Infomine
• The Urban Institute

Statistics:

• California Criminal Justice Statistics Center
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• FBI's Uniform Crime Reports
• U.S. Census data
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• Counting California
• RAND California
• Univ. of Michigan Documents Center
• Search Snoopy by keyword, e.g. crim* statistics

Other useful resources:

• LC Call Numbers
• SSU Criminology and Criminal Justice Department

Help Guides:

• Citation Style Manuals
• Evaluating Information