Massasoit Libraries: CJUS: Criminal Justice: General: Start Here

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
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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. Tutorial
Social Sciences Full Text
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On trial through 12/31/2020. Full text coverage of social sciences including addiction studies, family studies, gender studies, psychology, social work, and urban studies.
HeinOnline
Legal research database containing full-text from a variety of legal resources such as legal journals, government documents, foreign and international law materials, legal classics, and world trials. Tutorial
Google Scholar
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Search across a wide range of academic literature, drawing from journal publishers, university repositories, and other scholarly websites. Look for the Find@Massasoit link on the results page. Tutorial

Criminal Justice (Gale OneFile)
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Academic journals and magazines covering criminal justice and related fields; including law enforcement, paralegal topics, security, and terrorism. Tutorial
CQ Researcher
Coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Tutorial
Newspaper Source
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Full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers, as well as television and radio news transcripts from major networks. Tutorial
Psychology (Gale OneFile)
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Content supporting research in all fields of psychology - abnormal, biological, cognitive, comparative, developmental, personality, quantitative, social and applied. Tutorial

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.