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Research Guide for Criminal Justice
FINDING ARTICLES
Criminal Justice Database
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodical Index
Additional Databases With Criminal Justice SourcesThis database covers a broad range of criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. Most of the citations in these databases link to the full text of the article.
EBSCO's Sociology databases searches SocINDEX™ with Full Text and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. SocINDEX™ with Full Text encompasses the broad spectrum of sociological study with abstracts for more than 815 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. The full text for 397 "core" and 150 "priority" coverage journals dating back to 1908, are covered. Books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources are also included. You can search individual databases by going to EBSCO Database Selection . Additional search features are provided when you limit your search to a single data.
EBSCO's Psychology searches three databases, PsycINFO ®, PsycARTICLES, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Searches can be limited to the PsycINFO database by going to EBSCO Database Selection. This will allow you to search using an electronic version of APA's official Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms ® ..
Legal Research
This full text database includes case law, law reviews, legal news, state and federal codes, federal regulations, European Union law, & patents.
WestLaw Research Campus is an online legal research tool for students interested in law-related areas such as criminal justice, social work, business, education and law. In addition to primary legal information consisting of case law, and state and federal statutes, this resource provides summaries and analysis of court decisions, law reviews, and synopsis of legal issues.
Please note that in order to access this database, WestLaw requires users to check the I agree button at the bottom of the terms of agreement page.
FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES
Alvernia Library’s Internet Reference Library
The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Criminal Justice Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Electronic Resources page of the Library Web site.
Alvernia Library Research Page
The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.
The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.
FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS
WorldCat 100 million records
This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)
Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.
Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.
The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify books in the Alvernia Library. Criminal justice books are located primarily in sections 345 to 365.
Examples of books with background information on criminal justice are listed below:
Criminal Procedure Checklists R345.6305 H552 2005
The Supreme Court Compendium R347.43 S959 2003
The Encyclopedia of Police Science R363.203 G811 2007
The American Dictionary of Criminal Justice: Key Terms and Major Court Cases R364.03 C452 2001
Encyclopedia of World Crime R364.03 N251
Crime in the United States 2004 R364.0973 C929 2005\
Hate Crimes: A Reference Handbook R364.15 A469 2005
Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice R364.36 E56 2003
Criminal Justice R345.7305 C929 2006
The Historical Atlas of American Crime R364.973 R813 2005
Encyclopedia of American Crime R364.973 S573 2001
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics R364.973 S724
Encyclopedia of American Prisons R365.973 E56 1996
Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Institutions R365.973 E56 2005
The Encyclopedia of Mental Health R616.89 E56
A collection of over 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia University computer network.
Several examples of criminal justice ebooks include:
- Capital Punishment and Latino Offenders: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Death Sentences (2003)
- Child Abuse and the Criminal Justice System (2003)
- Good Cop, Bad Cop: Racial Profiling and Competing Views of Justice in America (2003)
- Measurement Problems in Criminal Justice Research: Workshop Summary (2003)
- Policing Sexual Assault (2002)
- The Probation and Parole Treatment Planner (2003)
International Encyclopedia of the Social Services
The Encyclopedia covers articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Over 600 tables of data from various government and private souces on criminal justice.
Updated: November 13, 2008