Journal Articles and Databases

in Criminal Justice

Academic Search Premier provides full text articles from over 4,700 journals in many subject areas, plus indexing for another 3,500 journals.

Criminal Justice Periodicals provides citations and full text articles to journals related to criminal justice.

Expanded Academic ASAP provides citations and full text articles in a wide variety of disciplines.

IllinoisData provides extensive data and graphs on Illinois agriculture, business, crime, demographics, education, housing and construction, labor market and population.

Lexis-Nexis provides full-text documents from business, legal, medical, and reference publications; newspapers (including the New York Times since 2002), wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard’s Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center provides articles, topic overviews, primary source documents, statistics, images, and podcasts on a wide variety of contemporary social issues. It also provides national and state curriculum standards.

Refworks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows you to create your own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. You can use these references in writing papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography. You must set up a free individual account in Refworks.