Guides: Criminal Justice: Articles

Topics in the News

Researching the Facts About Police Brutality and Racial Disparity in Hein Online
Tips on researching police brutality using the law journals, congressional hearings, and other resources of Hein Online. (June 4, 2020)
Capital Punishment Research Resources in Hein Online
Includes fast facts on the death penalty, and how to search for legislation and cases in Hein Online. (Nov. 14, 2018)
HeinOnline Blog
Tips for searching legislation, cases, law articles and more in HeinOnline. Both current or historical topics such as immigration, intellectual property, gun regulation, the Pentagon Papers, and slavery are listed.

Criminal Justice & Policy Articles

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
A database of government reports, journal articles, books, and other research in topics in criminal justice.
Nexis Uni: Criminal Justice
This Nexis interface allows you to search: news, statutes, Supreme Court cases, law reviews, U.S. Attorney General opinions, and more.
HeinOnline: Criminal Justice & Criminology
Comprised of congressional hearings, U.S. Department of Justice publications, GAO reports, CRS reports, periodicals, and rare or hard-to-find pamphlets, memoirs, and books written by law enforcement officers and criminals, this database within HeinOnline is organized into 16 subject areas. Among the subject areas are Attorney General, Criminal Statistics, Juvenile Justice, Sex Crimes, Reform & Recidivism, Penology, and Law Enforcement.

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
One of the premier sources for legal and political information. Full-text law journals are a major part of the database, but HeinOnline also includes deep historical collections of U.S. federal government documents.
Titles digitized include the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, bills and public laws in the Statutes at Large, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, selected legislative histories, Supreme Court documents, Presidential documents, and more. Search the Sources of Compiled Legislative History database by Public Law or Bill number, from the 37th to the 107th Congress. The U.S. Federal Legislative History Title Collection has full text legislative histories on significant legislation in banking, civil rights, labor, digital rights, the USA PATRIOT act, and other selected laws.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Search for articles, reports, and government documents on public policy and international affairs topics.
Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes otherwise hard to obtain research and publications from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers. Each item includes an abstract and, where available, access to the full-text of the report and/or the homepages and electronic mail addresses of the authoring institution.

Psychology & Sociology

PsycINFO on Ovid This link opens in a new window
The primary index to the literature of psychology and its related fields. Since 1887 covers journal articles, and since 1987, books and book chapters. International in scope, topics include psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
A primary resource for accessing the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Based on an international selection of journals and other serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations. Includes book, film and software reviews. Major areas of coverage include anthropology, collective behavior, community development, disaster studies, education, environmental studies, gender studies, gerontology, law and penology, marriage and family studies, medicine and health, racial interactions, social psychology, social work, sociological theory, stratification, substance abuse, urban studies and violence.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Full-text publications from all academic areas of study, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years.
Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) provides access to more than 17,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Nexi Uni has three primary collections: 1) full-text access to thousands of news sources in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; 2) aggregated economic data on businesses, corporations, and industries in the U.S. and abroad; 3) full-text legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Combines several of the Library's heavily used databases, including ProQuest Research Library, into one easy-to-search interface. Thousands of journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and other scholarly content on a very broad range of topics and sources.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Cumulates five databases:
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science
Emerging Sources Citation Index
Science Citation Index Expanded
Social Sciences Citation Index
In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references (from authors' bibliographies). You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.