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 Credo Reference includes 21 reference ebook titles as well as hundreds of topic pages on Criminology and Law.

Frequently-Used Databases

Library Resources

Individual Ebooks

Ebook Collections

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 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.