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Resources in
Criminal Justice
Circulating Books
To find books that check out, visit the
Brown Library Home
Page and click on "Book Catalog."
Reference Books
The following
books are located in the reference section on the main
floor. Links are provided to the book catalog, where you can
find a cover image, summary and book reviews. The links do not
take you to full-text.
     
BF31 .E52 2000 Encyclopedia of Psychology
HM291 .D4857 Encyclopedia of Violence
HN90 .V5 S833 Statistical Handbook on Violence in
America
HT123 .E5
Encyclopedia of Urban America
HV6017 .E52
Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice
HV6783 .A85 Atlas of Crime: Mapping the Criminal
Landscape
HV6787 .A3 Crime in the United States -
Uniform Crime Reports published by the U.S. Department of
Justice. A great statistical source!
HV7436 .G8783
Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia
HV 8073 .B425
Encyclopedia of Forensic Science
HV8694 .P35
Encyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the
United States
HV9104 .E58
Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice
HV9471 .S54
The Encyclopedia of American Prisons
RA790.5 .E53 1998 Encyclopedia of Mental Health
RC437 .G35 2003
The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
RM316 .M555 2002
The Encyclopedia of Addictive
Drugs
Databases
To find periodical articles use an electronic database. Go to
the Brown Library home page and click on "Databases."
General Databases
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CQ
Researcher -
CQ Researcher
is often the first source that librarians recommend when researchers are
seeking original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the
news. Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher is
noted for its in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal
justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and
the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a
year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.
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Issues & Controversies - A full-text social issues
database with articles published by Facts on File. No
journals.
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EBSCO
- This is the place to start for general research. This group of databases
includes: Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete,
Computers & Applied Sciences Complete, CINAHL, PsycARTCLES,
ERIC, and more. Articles may be full-text, abstracts, or citations.
Scholarly Journal Databases
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JSTOR -
Full-text journal articles in a wide
variety of academic subjects. While most library
databases begin periodical coverage in the early 1980's, JSTOR provides complete back-runs of journals sometimes
going back to the early 1900's. JSTOR does not include
current articles. See Project Muse.
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Project Muse - Current full-text journal articles in a
wide variety of academic subjects. Includes current issues
for many JSTOR titles.
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PsycARTICLES - Includes full-text for 63 psychology
journals published by the American Psychological Association
and other organizations. Coverage is for complete runs of
journals going back to the earliest publication date. The
earliest journal included goes back to 1894.
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PsycINFO- An abstract database of psychological
literature from the 1800s to the present. Contains
citations, abstracts, and cited references. Not full-text.
Use the
periodicals link from the home page to see if we have
the journal you need on the shelf. If we do not, we can
order it for you through
interlibrary loan.
Periodicals in Brown Library
Use the electronic databases to find references to
periodical articles. If you find a
reference to an article in a database that is not full-text,
then use the all titles list to see if we have the periodical. If we do
not have the periodical than you may order it through
interlibrary loan. Click
here to browse a list of specific
titles in
criminology.
Periodicals in Full-Text
Here is a list of our
full-text periodicals
available through VIVA. You can search for a specific
periodical by title or click on the category tab to search for
all the periodicals on a subject such as Law. After clicking on
Law, click on Crime, Criminology and Law Enforcement.
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