LibGuides: CJ 391: Corrections: Research Databases

Scholarly Articles

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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This resource includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. The increasing globalization of criminology is reflected with coverage of hundreds of journals from around the world.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Online access to core scholarly journals in business, education, health, arts & humanities, life sciences, literature, physical sciences, and social sciences. Coverage begins with the first issue of each journal.
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Includes: Arts & Sciences 1-15, Business 2-4, & Life Sciences
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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NexisUni, formerly LexisNexis Academic, Includes access to over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications (most full-text, the rest abstracted), primarily newspapers, magazines and journals. Covers local, regional and international newspapers (in English and non-English languages). Includes broadcast transcripts, case law, legal codes, regulations, Shepard's Citations to Supreme Court cases (back to 1789), company financial information, and SEC filings and reports.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to literature in sociology & related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Covering sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Coverage: 1974 to the present.
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PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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The American Psychological Association's (APA) resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health, and contains citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s. Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.
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Newspapers

See the WSU Libraries Newspapers Research Guide for local, U.S., international, and historical newspaper databases.

Corrections by William J. Chambliss (Editor); J. Geoffrey Golson (Editor); Golson Books, Ltd. Staff
Publication Date: 2011
Correctional Theory by Francis T. Cullen; Cheryl Lero Jonson
Call Number: HV8665 .C85 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Older edition available here
Handbook of Correctional Mental Health by Charles L. Scott (Editor)
Call Number: RC451.4.P68 H356 2010
Publication Date: 2009
Rethinking Corrections by Hung-En Sung (Editor); Lior Gideon (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010
American Penology by Thomas G. Blomberg; Karol Lucken
Call Number: HV9466 .B55 2010
Publication Date: 2010
The Handbook of Juvenile Delinquency and Juvenile Justice by Marvin D. Krohn (Editor); Jodi Lane (Editor)
Publication Date: 2015
Women and Crime by Judith Ann Warner
Call Number: HV6046 .W367 2012
Publication Date: 2012
African Americans and Criminal Justice by Delores D. Jones-Brown (Editor); Marvie Brooks (Editor); Beverly D. Frazier (Editor)
Publication Date: 2014
The Prison and the Gallows by Marie Gottschalk
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 0521864275
Publication Date: 2006-06-19
Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Call Number: EBOOK
ISBN: 0520242017
Publication Date: 2007-01-08

Reference Databases

These databases contain hundreds of reference works on every subject. Try a keyword search for background information on your topic from multiple perspectives.

Gale E-Books This link opens in a new window
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Collection of ebook reference works in all disciplines including multivolume encyclopedias, biographical directories, business plan handbooks, consumer health references, dictionaries, etc.
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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Over 400 reference titles from over 70 publishers covering every major subject. Seamless searching of Credo Reference sources, the WSU Libraries Catalog, and other Libraries subscribed databases.
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Video tour of Credo Reference
Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new window
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A collection of content for exploration into social issues from all perspectives. Providing pro/con viewpoint essays, topic overviews, biographies of social activists and reformers, court-case overviews, podcasts, primary source documents, and more.
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