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Criminal Justice: A Research Guide


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To use the links in this guide off campus go to http://www.etown.edu/HighLibrary.aspx and click on Database access from outside E-town network.

These are only some of the sources that may be useful to you. For further help with your research, please call (ext. 1453) or email Peter DePuydt. You may also email AskUs at the High Library, or call the Reference Desk at ext. 1461.

Find books

The High Library catalog will help you to find books, videos, CDs, and other materials.

For books not available at the High Library, use WorldCat.


Find background information

Criminal Justice

Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Ref 364.03 En56 2002)

Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior (Ref 364.03 En562)

Encyclopedia of Forensic Science (Ref 363.25 B435e)

Encyclopedia of Forensic Science: A Compendium of Detective Fact and Fiction (Ref 363.2503 C752e)

Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement (Ref 363.2 En56)

Encyclopedia of Prison & Correctional Facilities (Ref 365.973 En562)

The Facts on File Dictionary of Forensic Science (Ref 363.2503 B435f)

Forensic Science: An Encyclopedia of History, Methods, and Techniques (Ref 363.2503 T581f)

Organized Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism (Ref 364.106 Or682)

Sociology

Annual Review of Sociology. 1975-2003. (First level of the High Library, shelved with the bound periodicals)

The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology (Ref 301.03 J66b)

Developments in Sociology: An Annual Review (301.05 D489)

Encyclopedia of Sociology (Ref 301.03 En56 2000)

Encyclopedia of World Cultures (Ref 306.03 En56)

Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America (Ref 301.45 G151)

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Ref 300.3 In61)

The Social Science Encyclopedia (Ref 300.3 So678)

Statistics and Research Methods

A Dictionary of Statistics and Methodology. (Ref 300.15195 V887d)

The Gallup Poll (Ref 301.1543 G175r) 1972-2007. Click here for current Gallup polls.

Statistical Abstract of the United States (Ref 317.3 Un3s). Current issues are on reserve at the Circulation Desk, or connect to http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

Statistical Yearbook (Ref 310.5 Un3)

Find articles and essays

Academic Search Premier: This multi-disciplinary database indexes over 8100 journals and provides full text for 4700 journals. Includes both scholarly and popular citations and full text articles from 1975 to the present.

Criminal Justice Collection: Indexes almost 4,500,000 articles, many in full text, from all aspects of the criminal justice field.

JSTOR: Provides access to articles in the older issues of approximately 400 journal titles in the humanities and social sciences.

Lexis-Nexis: 1982 to present. Contains full-text newspaper, magazine, and newswire articles relating to business, law, and news.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service). 1970-2004 (level 1 of the Library)

PsycARTICLES 1985 to present. Full text articles in general and specialized fields of psychology.

PsycINFO_1887 Covers psychology and related fields, from 1887 to present.

SocialSciAbs: Covers from 1983 to the present. Abstracts of articles in the social sciences, including some in full text. For 1974-1982, see Social Sciences Index in paper (level 1 of the Library).

Sociological Abstracts 1953-2004 (level 1 of the Library).

WilsonSelectPlus A multi-disciplinary full text database, from 1994 to present.

Internet links

To use the links in this guide, go to: http://www2.etown.edu/library/CriminalJustice.htm

Google Scholar: good for academic research in all fields.

Criminal Justice

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Criminal Justice Links

ForensicAnthro.com

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Reddy's Forensic Page

Sociology

Research Resources for the Social Sciences

A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace

WWW Virtual Library: Sociology

Statistics

High Library Statistics Links

Citation Guides

High Library citation resources


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