LEJA 101

LEJA 101: Survey of Criminal Justice


Newspaper Article Databases

America’s Newspapers

Historical Chicago Tribune

LexisNexis Academic

Newspaper Source

Regional Business News

Indexes to Law Enforcement Articles

Criminal Justice Abstracts
- articles, books, reports, government publications

Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
- magazine & journal articles - some full text

NCJRS Abstracts Database (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
- articles, books, reports, government publications
- includes a link to the NCJRS Virtual Library, with full documents

Additional Crime & Justice Full-Text Resources

CQ Public Affairs Collection
- includes reports, case summaries, statististics, chronologies, and legislative information, on many law and justice topics

National Institute of Corrections Digital Resource Library
- NIC’s database of online corrections-related resources

Vera Institute of Justice
- publications in the areas of policing, sentencing & corrections, judicial process, crime & victimization

Managing Your Citations/Bibliography

Refworks
- lets you keep citations in folders & create bibliographies, any style

 

Jeanne Stierman – 8/07