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Criminology and Political Science

Criminal Justice Abstracts
This database includes indexing and abstracts of journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Coverage: 1968-present.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
Information clearinghouse for research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. Includes federal, state, and local reports from 1975 - present.
Political Science: a SAGE Full-Text Collection
Some full-text articles spanning roughly 20 years of general political science, American government and politics, political sociology, comparative politics, area studies, and related disciplines.
Criminal Justice Database
Offers information on crime cause and impact, litigation, and crime trends. Includes scholarly journals, correctional/law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and more.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
Information clearinghouse for research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. Includes federal, state, and local reports from 1975 - present.
Criminology : A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Criminology: a SAGE full-text collection includes the full-text of 24 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back to the beginning volume, encompassing over 4,100 articles. It covers such subjects as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence. The searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.
JSTOR

Law/Legal

Nexis Uni
Full text news, industry and market news, legal news and research, company financial information and general medical topics from 1987 forward.
Westlaw Campus
Legal research tool designed specifically for students outside of law school. Compiles cases from state and federal courts, statutes, federal regulations, legal briefs, and select secondary sources.
JSTOR

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