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Databases for Criminal Justice

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QuickSearch This link opens in a new window QuickSearch combines results from many search tools for you to review in one list. Results come from the Wright State catalog and hundreds of library databases including all of our Ebscohost databases, JSTOR, the Web of Science, and others.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window Get full-text access to magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, business, education, and the humanities. Full-text may be available via Find-It. Useful place to begin broad searches for general topics.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window Get full-text articles from over 500 journals. Topics include psychiatry, psychology, emotional and behavioral characteristics, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Search PsycINFO for a more complete representation of psychology literature.
SocINDEX This link opens in a new window Search extensively indexed books, monographs, and conference papers. This index features citations with subject headings from a sociology-specific thesaurus designed by expert lexicographers. SocINDEX covers all subdisciplines of sociology such as anthropology, criminology, demography, ethnic, racial, and gender studies, marriage, family, and social structures, and social work.
Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window Covers crime trends, prevention, deterrence, juvenile delinquency, justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. Indexes international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Alert: This database is no longer available as of July 7, 2023 Read important law enforcement summaries from criminal justice publications, books, government reports, research reports, journals and unpublished research.
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window Contains non-classified Presidential directives, policy, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources related to homeland security.