Muskingum College Library: Subject Guides: Criminal Justice

Databases
General Research
SocINDEX
Index, abstracts, and full text for publications in sociology, including criminology and criminal justice. more information

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Summaries of more than 190,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources covering corrections, courts, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, drugs, juvenile justice, law enforcement and victims. Use the Electronic Journal Finder seperately to determine full-text availability.

Advanced Research
LexisNexis Academic includes the following specialized legal research tools:

Law Reviews - articles written by legal scholars
Federal & State Cases
Federal & State Codes
Shepard's Citations - retrieve prior and subsequent history and all citing references

Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
Index, abstracts, and cited references for articles in the social sciences. more information

Reference Books
Electronic Titles
Electronic Reference Books (ABC-CLIO)
Click on a title to browse its table of contents or do a keyword search.

Crime

Corrections

Forensics

Forensic Science: An Encyclopedia of History, Methods, and Technique

Law and Justice

United States Constitution

United States Supreme Court

The Taney Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (1836-1864)
The Waite Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (1874-1888)
The Fuller Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (1888-1910)
The White Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (1910-1922)
The Taft Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (1921-1930)
The Hughes Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (1930-1941)
The Stone Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (1941-1946)
The Warren Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (1953-1969)
The Rehnquist Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (1994-2005)

Oxford Reference Collection, Law
Online, full-text access to Oxford Companion to American Law, Oxford Dictionary of Law, and
Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions. more information

Print Titles
Encyclopedia of DNA and the United States Criminal Justice System
(REF RA 1057.55 .P34 2004)
Covers information related to DNA fingerprinting in the United States. Also contains the full text of statutes that address the use of DNA analysis.

Baldwin's Ohio Revised Code, Annotated. (REF KFO30 2002 .A2)
Multi-volume set of Ohio’s laws enacted by the state legislature. Provides historical reference
and commentary on the laws of the state of Ohio.

Baldwin’s Ohio Practice Criminal Law (REF KFO561 .A6 S53 2003)
Multi-volume resource that provides commentary on Ohio’s criminal law and criminal
procedures.

Journals
Full Text Criminal Justice Electronic Journals
American Journal of Criminal Law
American Journal of Drug & Alcohol Abuse
Canadian Journal of Criminology & Criminal Justice
Corrections Today
Crime & Delinquency
Crime and Justice
Criminal Justice Ethics
Criminal Justice and Behavior
Criminology
Criminology and Public Policy
Corrections Professional
Corrections Today
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy
European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
Federal Probation
Homicide Studies
International Journal of Drug Policy
Journal of Criminal Justice
Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
Journal of Criminal Justice Education
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology
Journal of Drug Issues
Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency
Justice Quarterly
Policing and Society
Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management
Prison Journal

Additional Full Text CJ Related Titles in the Electronic Journal Center
Politics, Political Science and Law title list
Sociology and Social Sciences title list

Web Sites
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the
criminal justice system.

FBI Uniform Crime Reports
Good resource for crime statistics. Contains crime reports compiled by the FBI, including Crime in the United States, Hate Crime Statistics, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, and various other special publications.

FindLaw: Criminal Law
Contains information on criminal law including victims' rights, criminals' rights, types of crime, the stages of the criminal process, and more.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Federally funded clearinghouse of justice and substance abuse information.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
This database contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Over 600 data sets covering aspects of the criminal justice system including public opinion,
nature of criminal offense, demographics of criminal, judicial processing and incarceration
characteristics.

United Nations Office on Drug and Crime
Source for worldwide information and statistics on drug abuse and crime.

United States Department of Justice
Starting point for locating information about law enforcement and crime prevention from the
Federal government.

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