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Databases for Criminal Justice

April 8, 2026 • 11:56 am

Criminal Justice – Best Bets

  • Academic Search Complete
    Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals over a wide array of academic disciplines. More info
  • Criminal Justice Database (Proquest)
    Provides indexing and abstracts for over 450 U.S. and international journals and full text for nearly 150 journals in criminal justice and related fields. More info
  • Nexis Uni
    Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. More info

Criminal Justice – Also Useful

  • Bureau of Justice Statistics
    The Bureau of Justice Statistics collects, analyzes, and publishes information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. More info
  • Congressional Publications (ProQuest)
    Provides indexing of many Congressional publications from 1789 to the present, including Hearings, Committee Prints, Research Reports, Legislative Histories, and more. More info
  • JSTOR
    Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads. More info
  • National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database‎
    NCJRS covers literature related to research, policy, and practice in criminal and juvenile justice and drug control. More info
  • North Carolina Digital Collections
    These collections contain over 158,000 historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts, and other resources on topics related to North Carolina. More info
  • North Carolina General Assembly
    Provides access to NC statutes and session laws, bills and legislation, committee assignments, audio broadcasts of House and Senate sessions, the legislative calendar, and a citizen guide. More info
  • PAIS Index
    Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs. More info
  • Political Science Complete
    Contains full text articles from over 500 scholarly journals and indexing and abstracts from 2,900 journal titles related to political science, global in scope. More info
  • ProQuest Central
    Multidisplinary database with access to nearly 20,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers. More info
  • ProQuest Congressional
    Comprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics. More info
  • PsycINFO
    Contains over 3 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. More info
  • Roper iPoll
    Archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples. More info
  • Sage Knowledge
    Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects. More info
  • Sociological Abstracts
    Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines, providing abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications. More info

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Jackie Eagleson
Jackie Eagleson