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Criminological Theories

These summaries of different criminological theories are from Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology.

How to Read a Journal Article
Tips and tricks to make reading and understanding social science journal articles easier.

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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Google Scholar
Provides access to scholarly sources across many disciplines including articles, theses, books, etc. from a variety of publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Remember, not everything in Google Scholar is indeed academic so be critical of the information you find there and look for the "WSU Full-Text" next to the article.

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Multidisciplinary Databases

Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Article citations and abstracts from over 600 periodicals and scholarly journals in all areas of the social sciences. Includes full-text access to some journals. Coverage of indexing: 1983-present; full-text: 1995-present. 99 simultaneous users.
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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

Subject Specific Databases

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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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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Research Methodology

SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window
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A tool allowing researchers to explore methods concepts in over 175,000 pages of SAGE's book, journal and reference content. This can help with designing research projects, understanding particular methods or identifying a new methods, conducting research, and writing up findings. It can be used as a cross-disciplinary source across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.
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