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Article databases

NameDescription
Academic Search CompleteMulti-disciplinary coverage. Over 5,500 full text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF content going back to 1887. Searchable cited references for nearly 1,000 journals. EBSCOhost
Cambridge Journals OnlineOnline content delivery service for Cambridge University Press' collection of nearly 200 leading journals across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Full text coverage. Cambridge University Press
Criminal Justice Reference Service AbstractsPublished by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Contains summaries of over 189,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. Excludes most legal decisions, opinions, and statutes.
Essay and General Literature IndexCitations for essays and chapters contained in books. Click "Library Owns?" icon to search for call numbers and availability of books. Coverage in the humanities and social sciences. H. W. Wilson
JSTOR Access to Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, and VII, as well as the Ecology & Botany collection. Full text.
Legal CollectionFull text for more than 250 law journals. EBSCOhost
LexisNexis AcademicFull text for more than 6,000 print, broadcast, and online media sources. Worldwide coverage of general interest topics, news, business, economics, and more. Includes Shepard's® Citations for legal research. LexisNexis
NetLibraryAccess to more than 50,000 digitized books. Search by title, author, keyword, Library of Congress subject heading, publisher, or ISBN. Full-text searching is also available. OCLC
OmniFile Full Text MegaCitations, abstracts, and full text for thousands of popular and scholarly sources, including articles, reviews, books, and more. Multi-disciplinary coverage. H. W. Wilson
Social Science Full TextCitations, abstracts, and full text for articles, reviews, biographies, and more. Coverage for both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. H. W. Wilson
Sociological AbstractsCitations and abstracts for journal articles, book reviews, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Wiley-Blackwell Formerly Blackwell Synergy. Full text for over 850 journals, the majority of which are published by Blackwell on behalf of international scholarly and professional societies. Subjects range across Medicine, Science, Social Science, and the Humanities. PLEASE NOTE: not all titles or issues of titles are available in full text. Wiley InterScience
WorldCatSearch for materials in hundreds of libraries. Books, websites, computer programs, films, slides, journals, magazines, papers, manuscripts, maps, musical scores, newspapers, sound recordings, videotapes. Coverage from before 1000 BC to the present. OCLC

LC classification system

HA - Statistics HV - Social Pathology. Social and Public Welfare. Criminology

Reference books

BookCall number
A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its AmendmentsA Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments
Encyclopedia of Crime and JusticeREF HV6017 .E52
Encyclopedia of Criminology (3 volumes)REF HV6017 .E5295 2005
Encyclopedia of Forensic SciencesREF HV8073 .E517
Encyclopedia of White-collar & Corporate Crime (2 volumes)REF HV6768 .E63 2005
The Blackwell Companion to CriminologyThe Blackwell Companion to Criminology
The Mafia Encyclopedia The Mafia Encyclopedia

Web resources

Corrections.Com
Criminal Justice Links
Famous Trials
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Stalking Resource Center
U.S. Department of Justice: Bureau of Justice Statistics
Virginia Department of Corrections