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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

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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Content: Scholarly articles covering all areas in the criminal justice field.
Useful feature: Use the filters on the left for full-text and academic sources.
Full text for over 300 journals covering criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.
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Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
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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.
Useful Feature: the categories and individual collections are searchable to keep your results focused to a specific area.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Content: A wide range of academic literature, drawing from journal publishers, university repositories, and other scholarly websites.
Useful Feature: 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.

Even more places to look:

Criminal Justice (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Content: Focused on the information needed for daily experiences in the justice professions.
Useful Feature: Results are sorted by resource type at the top of the search results for easy filtering.
Academic journals and magazines covering criminal justice and related fields; including law enforcement, security, and terrorism.
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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Content: Focuses on government and policy reports that solidify the topics in a cultural context.
Useful Feature: Each issue has a timeline of key social and policy milestones related to its movement over time.
Coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
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Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
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Content: Full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers, as well as television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
Useful Feature: Click on “Publications” at the top of the page to find a specific news outlet.
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Psychology (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
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Content: All fields of psychology - abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social, and applied.
Useful Feature: Use the Topic Finder search terms and narrow down your results.

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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies by Anthony M. Orum
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781118568453
Publication Date: 2019-04-15

Fields Related to Criminal Justice

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.