Criminal Justice Librarian
Criminal Justice Librarian
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Research Databases: Criminal Justice
- Criminal Justice Abstracts w/Full Text This link opens in a new window Contains more than 400,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline.
- SocINDEX w/ Full Text This link opens in a new window The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. This database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
- Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
- Homeland Security Digital Library Homeland security-related U.S. documents, directives, and national strategy reports, as well as resources from universities, organizations, and local and state agencies.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service "The the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide."
Criminal Justice Statistics
- Bureau of Justice Statistics The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Provides official crime counts for the United States since 1930 in four annual reports - "Crime in the United States", "Hate Crime Statistics", "Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted", and “National Incident-Based Reporting System”.
- National Archive of Criminal Justice Data NACJD hosts several large-scale datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).
- Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System Find data on crime in Pennsylvania overall or build crime reports for specific counties and towns.
- Pew Research Center - Criminal Justice Pew Research Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, computational social science research and other data-driven research on a variety of topics, including criminal justice.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics "The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 1,000 tables."
- Statista This link opens in a new window Consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources and presented in a variety of formats including infographics, industry reports, and in-depth data analysis.
Search the Library Catalog
- Library CatalogSearch the PennWest Libraries' online catalog to find physical items and eBooks.
Other Databases: Criminal Justice
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window Noted for its award-winning in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy; each single-themed report is researched and written by a seasoned journalist, footnoted and professionally fact checked. Reports are published online 44 times a year by CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE Publications.
- Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window Find overviews, news, and opinions on hundreds of today's important social issues.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Use this link to show PennWest full text in your Google Scholar results.
- Legal Collection This link opens in a new window An authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world, Legal Collection contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected scholarly law journals.
- OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, ebooks and books, and more.
- U.S. Major Dailies This link opens in a new window Full-text of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times from the mid 1980's - today. (Proquest)
Web Resources
Pennsylvania Agencies
Federal Agencies
