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Division of Social Sciences

Databases for Research in Criminal Justice

  • Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text Best Bet

    Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text™ contains more than 400,000 records from the most important sources within the discipline. Indexing and full-text of resources related to: 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.

  • Homeland Security Digital Library 

    The Homeland Security Digital Library is composed of homeland security related documents collected from a wide variety of sources. These include federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies.

  • International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center 

    Hundreds of full-text journals and periodicals and hundreds of thousands of articles plus news feeds, reports, summaries, and more on topics of Security and Counter-terrorism.

  • Nexis Uni Best Bet

    Explore more than 17,000 news, business, and legal sources, including regional, national, and international newspapers.

  • ABI / INFORM Complete

    This database includes peer-reviewed journals, business cases and case studies, 52 million company records, working papers from analysis firms, and business news. Its international coverage allows a comprehensive starting point for business research.

  • Academic Search Complete

    Designed for academic institutions, this multi-disciplinary database is a leading resource for scholarly research with access to 5,500+ full-text journals. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.

  • Access World News Research Collection: 2021 Edition

    Find global information on topics related to business, education, government, health, jobs and careers, politics and more from a variety of news media featuring newspapers, videos, images and web-only content including the Anderson Independent-Mail, Post & Courier, The State, USA Today and international sources.

  • APA PsycArticles

    PsycARTICLES®, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to the present.

  • Black Life in America

    Comprehensive coverage of the African American experience from the early 18th century to the present day. Sourced from more than 19,000 American and global news sources, including over 400 current and historical Black publications. A unique digital archive of American and global news media covering the African American experience.

  • Business Source Complete

    Full text articles and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, dating back as far as 1886.

  • eBook Collection

    Search and view the full text of eBooks.

  • Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints 

Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews and other sources on contemporary issues. Helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more.

  • Military & Government Collection

    Provides full-text current news articles on topics pertaining to all branches of the military and government.

  • Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

    Comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.

  • SocINDEX (with Full-Text)

    SocINDEX with Full Text covers a broad range of studies, including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, religion, racial studies and social work. Contains full-text journals and informative abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895, and extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources, and cited references

Online Resources

Statistics Resources

 "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"