Library: Criminal Justice Programs: Guide Home

Research Starter

Here are some of the most useful sources for criminal justice and tips to start your research.

Search Engines

Google Scholar
Use this tool to search through millions of scholarly articles on the web. If you have an article title, searching it in google scholar is the quickest way to find out if it available online for free.

Reference Works

Reference works are good places to start research for an overview of or quick information on a topic.

Credo Reference and Ebooks This link opens in a new window Credo Reference includes 21 reference ebook titles as well as hundreds of topic pages on Criminology and Law.

Frequently-Used Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window

Library Resources

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
ERIC This link opens in a new window
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
OpenDissertations This link opens in a new window
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window

Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
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Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency This link opens in a new window
Policing and Society This link opens in a new window

Journal Collections

SpringerLink Journals This link opens in a new window

Individual Ebooks

Doing Justice : A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law This link opens in a new window
Evaluating Police Uses of Force This link opens in a new window
Practical Handbook for Professional Investigators This link opens in a new window
Routledge Handbook of Social, Economic, and Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window

Ebook Collections

eBook Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference and Ebooks This link opens in a new window

Print book holdings

Any print books related to criminal justice topics are likely to be located in the following Library of Congress call number areas:

H: Social Sciences (General).
HM: Sociology (General).
HN: Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform.
HQ: The family. Marriage. Women.
HT: Communities. Classes. Races.
HV: Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology.
K: Law in general. Comparative and uniform law. Jurisprudence.
KF: Law of the United States.
KFN 7401-7999: [Law of] North Carolina.
KFT 1-599: [Law of] Tennessee.

Library Orientation

Criminal Justice Orientation This link opens in a new window

This orientation module is focused on Criminal Justice resources. For a general library orientation, please choose one of the location-based orientations on the library's Orientations page.

Library Orientations Page

Subject Librarian

James Gill

Email Me

Contact:

Lonas Campus Library
3904 Lonas Drive
Knoxville, TN 37909
jgill@south.edu

(865) 251-1832

Subjects: Criminal Justice, General Education, Legal Studies, Psychology, Sciences

Criminal Justice Programs: Guide Home

Research Starter

Research Starter

Search Engines

Reference Works

Frequently-Used Databases

Library Resources

Journal Collections

Individual Ebooks

Ebook Collections

Search the Library Collections

Print book holdings

Library Orientation

Subject Librarian