LibGuides: Criminology: Databases / Articles / Journals

Finding Articles @ the Library

You can use OneSearch below to as a starting point for finding articles. For more information and tips, please visit the library's guide to using OneSearch. The articles collection within OneSearch is very extensive, and is a good starting point for research. In addition to OneSearch, you can also use the databases below, which are focused on materials within Political Science.

Find Articles

The following databases are most useful for locating scholarly/peer-reviewed articles for criminology:

Google Scholar (through Proxy)
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts is an index to the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law, penology, race relations, social psychology, and urban studies.
PsycINFO
This database contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
A federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
JSTOR
Interdisciplinary database of scholarly journals, most in full text.