Research Guides: Criminology: Journal Articles

Criminal Justice Databases

Below are some suggested search tools for finding articles related to criminal justice.

General Criminal Justice Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Use to find articles on a range of criminal justice and forensic sciences research
Full text for nearly 300 magazines and journals covering criminology, corrections and prisons, criminal investigations, forensic sciences and investigation, substance abuse and addiction, probation and parole, and more criminal justice topics.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Citations and summaries of important law enforcement and criminal justice publications including books, government reports, research reports, journals and unpublished research
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts provides thousands of summaries of important law enforcement and criminal justice publications including books, government reports, research reports, journals and unpublished research. Content dates range from 1970 to the present. Subjects include corrections, courts, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, drugs, juvenile justice, law enforcement, & victims.

Law Databases

Legal Collection This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts and full text to law journals, documents, and case studies
A collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. Legal Collection offers full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment and much more. This database is a source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.

Connecting Citations

This next database is a citation index. When you find an article in it, it will link you to research cited in it as well as later research that cite it, all of which may be relevant to your topic.

Evaluate Your Results

Got a long list of results and not sure which ones to use? Try the Evaluating Sources Research Guide.

Evaluating Sources
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Interlibrary Loan (Articles)

If you cannot locate a journal article, use the Interlibrary Loan Forms. A librarian will locate a library that owns the material and will send for what you need.

Interlibrary Loan Article Request Form Fill out this form with citation information and your contact information to request an article

Before placing a request, check the Citation Finder to make sure Beeghly does not have a copy.

Citation Finder
Find a specific article in the library's collection using citation information
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Go straight to a specific article with the Citation Finder. Include at least the Journal Title, Volume, Issue, and Start Page or use the DOI for the most accurate results.

Have a question? Email interlib@heidelberg.edu.