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Criminal Justice Resources  Tags: criminal justice crime criminology cj  

A guide to library research in Criminal Justice and related fields.
Last update: Oct 01st, 2009 URL: http://guides.boisestate.edu/CriminalJustice  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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Find Books

Typically Criminal Justice books in the library will be found under call number H (social sciences) specifically HV.

Search for an item in libraries near you:

 

  • Albertsons Library Catalog  
      
    We've got a collection to meet your needs. Feel free to contact me if you can't find what you're looking for.
  • WorldCat.Org  
    An easy interface to search for local holdings of materials as well as books beyond BSU. Can also link to interlibrary loan.
  • Google Books  
      
    Search inside books! Then check the Library catalog to see if we've got it. If not, then request it through Inter-Library loan.
  • Books beyond BSU - World Cat  
      
    Search for books in other major libraries and if we don't have them you can click the "FIND IT" button to request it through Inter-Library Loan.
 

Criminology Companion eBook

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The Blackwell Companion to Criminology provides a contemporary and global resource to scholarship in both classical and topical areas of criminology. Authored by an international group of expert criminologists, these original essays focus on major issues in criminology today, commenting upon key debates and theories, outlining the implications of new topics, studies and ideas, and discussing contemporary developments.

 

Encyclopedia of Sociology

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The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology is the reference for students, researchers, librarians, and academics in the field. This ground-breaking project brings together specially commissioned entries written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers. With over 1800 entries / 3.5 million words it will define the discipline of sociology for years to come and provides:

 

Criminal Justice Databases

Below are links to online resources available through the Albertsons Library. Use these resources to locate journal articles and resource citations for Criminal Justice related topics.

Look for the  button to link out to possible full-text access to the articles you find.

  • NCJRS abstracts database (Criminal justice)  
      
    NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
  • Criminal Justice Periodical Index (ProQuest)  
      
    ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index™ is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database includes abstract and indexing for 240 titles, with more than 80 available in full-text.
  • Criminal Justice Abstracts  
      
    Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. 1968-Current.
  • SAGE PREMIER  
      
    Includes the full-text of 24 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 86 years, encompassing over 20,400 articles. Previously known as -
    Criminology: A SAGE full-text collection
  • Web of Science / Web of Knowledge  
    A great interdisciplinary database to find good research. Look for the FIND IT button to get to the full-text!

Additional Resources

Below are links to online resources available through the Albertsons Library which are related to Criminal Justice. The subject of Criminal Justice is often considered a subset of Sociology so those resources are valid places to look for information.

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  • Sociological Abstracts  
      
    Provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers
  • Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text collection  
      
    Includes the full-text of 37 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 55 years, encompassing over 45,900 articles.
  • Academic Search Premier  
      
    A great general database which will information on Criminal Justice, Criminology, Sociology, as well as other topics.
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)  
      
    A powerful finding tool for Social Science citations. Look for the FIND IT button to see if the library subscribes to the journal cited.
  • GALE PowerSearch  
      
    Search across all the GALE databases the library subscribes to at once. A powerful tool indeed!
  • Google Scholar  
      
    You can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
 

New Internet Criminal Justice Info

Links to current reports and websites dealing with Criminal Justice related topics. Updated frequently.


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