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Crime Guide
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BROWN indicates that the item is located in Hoover Library.
Dewey call numbers for books in Criminology: 364s.
- Academic
Search Premier (Ebsco)
Provided by the Maryland
Digital Library.
- Multidisciplinary database indexing over 3000 journals and magazines and full text for over 1,200 titles (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
- 1990 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
- Academic
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- Information from nearly 5,000 newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings.
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Academic Index ASAP (InfoTrac)
- Multidisciplinary database indexing about 2000 journals and magazines with about 1000 titles in full text (i.e. only some articles are available full text).
- 1980 to present, but dates vary widely with the journal.
- JSTOR
- Full text of 254 journals in 19 academic disciplines.
- Consists of first issue of journal up to the most current 2 to 5 years, i.e. 1995 to 1999.
- Project
Muse
Provided by the Maryland
Digital Library.
- Search from over 100 journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
- Only journals from the 45 Johns Hopkins Press are full text.
- Dates vary widely, mostly 1996 to present.
- Online
Serials (Internet Public Librarian)
- Links to full-text law enforcement journals, magazines, etc. Cannot search for articles.
- Social
Science Online Periodicals (UNESCO)
- Links to over 426 social science periodicals with full text. Cannot search for articles.
Indexes with Citations on Crime
- FirstSearch
(OCLC) - includes the following databases:
- ArticleFirst - index to items from table of contents of journals, 1990 to present;
- ECO - index to scholarly journals, 1995 to present;
- UnionList - list of periodicals held by OCLC member libraries;
- WorldCat - catalog of all items cataloged by OCLC member libraries.
- PsycINFO
- Note: This is the premier psychology index.
- Indexes and abstracts psychology-related journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports.
- 1887 to present.
- Paper format: Psychological Abstracts; Vol. 19 (1945) - 80 (1993) only; (Call number: Index 150.5 P974).
- Social
Sciences Index (H.W. Wilson) 2/1983 to present
- Indexes 521 journals in anthropology, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, minority studies, public policy areas, psychiatry, psychology, social work, sociology, and urban studies.
- 2/1983 to present.
- Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
- Paper format: 4/1974 to 12/1991; (Call number: Index 300 S678).
- Social Services Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Indexes and abstracts over 1400s serials on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
- 1980 to present.
- Social
Work Abstracts (National Association of Social Workers)
- Indexes and abstracts over 450 journals devoted to the field of social work.
- 1977 to present.
- Note: this database allows only 4 users at one time. You could get a message saying the database is busy. In that case, try again later.
- Paper format: 1974 to 1976;
- Microfilm: 1965 to 1973; (Call number: Index 305 S677)
- Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Note: This is the main index to sociology.
- Indexes and abstracts over 2600 serials, as well as conference papers, books, book chapters, dissertations, book and other media review in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
- 1963 to present.
- Paper format: 1953 to present; (Call number: Index 305.5678)
- ingenta
- Search article summaries from over 20,000 publications.
- Searching is free; viewing the article requires a fee.
- Encyclopedia
of Crime and Justice. Ed. Sanford H. Kadish. 4 vols. New York:
The Free Press, 1983.
- (Call number: R 364.03 E56)
- (Call number: R 364.03 N251)
- Bureau
of Justice Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Justice)
- Data on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. Includes the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which is the best source for unreported crimes. Excellent site.
- National
Archive of Criminal Justice Data (ICPSR)
- Computer-readable criminal justice-related data collections.
- Social
Statistics Briefing Room: Crime (U.S. White House)
- Some quick facts.
- Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics)
- Data which are nationwide in scope or of nationwide relevance, collected from government and private organizations.
- Hoover Library has 1991 to present.
- The latest print edition is kept in the Reference collection (call number: R 364.973 S724).
- Older editions are kept in Government Documents (SU DOC number: J 29.9/6).
- Uniform
Crime Reports (UCR) (U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation)
- Crime statistics collected and reported by local law enforcement agencies throughout the country. Annual publication. 1995 to latest. Many of the reports are in PDF format.
- Uniform
Crime Reports County Data (Geostat, University of Virginia)
- Retrieve U.S. crime by county, 1990 to 1997.
- Crime
State Rankings 2000: Crime in the 50 United States. Lawrence, KS:
Morgan Quitno Press, 2000.
- (Call number: R 364.973 C9295)