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Welcome to the research guide for criminal justice! This guide contains:

Links to subject-specific databases you'll need for CJ research
Information on how to tell the difference between scholarly and non-scholarly sources
Links to statistical data to support your research

Library Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Content: Scholarly articles covering all areas in the criminal justice field.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Content: Full text coverage of social sciences including addiction studies, family studies, gender studies, psychology, social work, and urban studies.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Content: Legal journals, government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, and world trials.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Content: A wide range of academic literature, drawing from journal publishers, university repositories, and other scholarly websites. Use the “cited” and “cited by” buttons below the results to view related scholarly literature on a topic.
Look for the Find@Massasoit link on the results page to link back into Massasoit databases.

Criminal Justice (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Content: Focused on the information needed for daily experiences in the justice professions.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Content: Focuses on government and policy reports that solidify the topics in a cultural context.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Content: Full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers, as well as television and radio news transcripts from major networks. Click on “Publications” at the top of the page to find a specific news outlet.
Psychology (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Content: All fields of psychology - abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social, and applied.

Criminology: Topic Page
The study of crime, society's response to it, and its prevention, including examination of the environmental, hereditary, or psychological causes of crime, modes of criminal investigation and conviction, and the efficacy of punishment or correction (see prison) as compared with forms of treatment or rehabilitation.
Ethics: Topic Page
In philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles.
Psychology: Topic Page
Science or study of the thought processes and behavior of humans and other animals in their interaction with the environment.
Sociology: Topic Page
Scientific study of human social behavior. As the study of humans in their collective aspect, sociology is concerned with all group activities—economic, social, political, and religious.