Core Databases - CRJ600 - Rojas-Gaona - Library at Shippensburg University

Criminal Justice - Start Here

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to some 700,000+ articles in academic journals and professional magazines in criminal justice and related fields. Full text is immediately available for almost 80% of the articles.
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
This freely accessible database is a comprehensive source for criminal justice publications, including library abstracts for 225,000+ journal articles, research reports, data sets, and government publications. Since 2014, journal articles are largely excluded, with the focus on materials produced, funded, and sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Justice. Most entries include links to the full text of reports and data sets. Search for the full text of journal article and book titles in the Ship Discovery Service.

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covers scholarly publications in sociology, social work, criminal justice, and related fields. Contains >2.5 million articles and other materials (70% in full text) with deep coverage from 1960 and some back to 1882.
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Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This highly selective database covers 450 core social work and human services journals, with almost 60% of the articles available immediately in full text. The database is updated rather slowly - use SocIndex with Full Text for the most current research.
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Search Leading Criminal Justice Journals
Use this saved search to find articles in some of the leading Criminal Justice journals. Enter your search terms in the second row of search boxes and search. Use the Request through interlibrary loan" link to order any articles that we don't have yet in full text.