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Criminal Justice: Finding Articles

General Databases

Subject Databases

Finding Legal and Policy Information

CSULB Library - Criminal Justice


Please note: Majority of the databases on this page require CSULB Authentication. Current CSULB students, staff, and faculty should go to CSULB Library Access Requirements for off-campus access information.

Subject Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts
Comprehensive international coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
Contains summaries of more than 160,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

OnCongress
Federal legislative tracking service including full-text of government documents, legislative summaries, committee coverage, vote analysis and CQ Weekly news and analysis.

PsycINFO
Non-evaluative abstracts of book chapters and 1100+ international journals since 1887.

PsycArticles
Provides online, full-text access the journals of the American Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, and other publications. Journals included in the database are Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Journal of Family Psychology, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors and Psychology, Public Policy & Law.

SocIndex
SocINDEX provides abstracts to articles on topics of abortion, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociology, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.

Social Sciences Abstracts
Indexes about 300 English-language journals in sociology, anthropology, psychology, political science, criminology, and related fields. Electronic database covers literature since 1983. Older indexes in print (since 1907) can be found under call number Ref AI3 I58.

Social Services Abstracts
Research in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

General Databases

Academic Search Elite
General subject database containing indexing and abstracts for nearly 3,000 journals, with many dating back to 1984. Academic Search Elite also provides full-text data for over 1,200 journals, with some information dating back to 1990.

Dissertation Abstracts
Provides online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the database includingmaster's theses.

Lexis Nexis Academic
Newspapers, journals, legal digests and reports, and other publications covering economic, business, medical, social science and popular culture issues.

Reader's Guide Abstracts and Reader's Guide Retrospective
Articles in popular periodicals published in the U.S. and Canada. Topics covered include current events and news, fine arts, fashion, education, business, sports, health and nutrition, consumer affairs, among many others.

Web of Science
Provides access to multidisciplinary, high-quality research information from the world's leading science and social science journals. Web of Science allows you to track cited authors, articles, as well as articles arranged by subjects.

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