Subject Specialist:
Statistics and Data
U.S. Government Documents
814-865-0665
e-mail: sj31@psu.edu
Subject Specialist:
Statistics and Data
U.S. Government Documents
814-865-0665
e-mail: sj31@psu.edu
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Annual Reviews [Penn State Libraries]
Annual Reviews is a collection of comprehensive critical reviews of the written by leading scientists in the fields, and are heavily cited and highly ranked in terms of impact factors. Coverage is back to 1996, and is updated yearly.
Criminal Justice Abstracts [Penn State Libraries]
Provides abstracts of articles from the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, as well as books and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) [Penn State Libraries]
Subject areas include corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, and victims of crime. The time period covered is from the early 1970s to the present.
PsychInfo [Penn State Libraries]
Primary database for international literature in psychology and related disciplines. It is published by the American Psychological Association and provides coverage from 1840 to the present.
Sociological Abstracts [Penn State Libraries]
Seminal index for English language journals in Sociology, Social Work, and other Social Sciences. Provides abstracts for articles and is international in scope. Coverage: 1963 to the present.
Social Sciences Citation Index [Penn State Libraries]
The index can be used to look up either a specific author or a particular publication to see how many articles in the database cited that author or publication. The index can also be used to find related articles (articles that have at least one reference in common).
ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) [Penn State Libraries]
Access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data; training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques; resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies.
International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences [Penn State Libraries]
American Sociological Review
Publishes original works of interest to the sociology discipline in general, new theoretical developments, results of research that advance our understanding of fundamental social processes, and important methodological innovations.
Criminal Law Forum
Serves the global community of criminal law scholars and practitioners. Dedicated to the advancement of criminal law theory, practice, and reform throughout the world. A publication of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law and the Rutgers University School of Law, Camden
Journal of Criminal Justice
International journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the criminal justice area.
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Publishes papers that apply quantitative techniques of all levels of complexity to substantive, methodological, or evaluative concerns of interest to the criminological community.
The Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Published by The National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Journal reports on original research in crime and delinquency, new theory, and the critical analyses of theories and concepts pertinent to research development in the field.
Justice Quarterly : JQ
Published by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, JQ contains articles on criminal justice and related issues. Providing articles on qualitative and quantitative research in the area of criminal justice and book review essays.
Legal and Criminological Psychology
Covers theoretical, empirical and review studies in the field as broadly defined. Topics include new legislation, victimology, theories of delinquency, public attitudes, mental health and the law, policing and crime detection. Published by The British Psychological Society.
Theoretical Criminology : an International Journal
Concerned with theories, concepts, narratives and myths of crime, criminal behavior, social deviance, criminal law, morality, justice and social regulation.
Western Criminology Review
Serves as a forum for the publication and discussion of theory, research, policy and practice in the rapidly changing and interdisciplinary fields of criminology and criminal justice. Published by the Western Society of Criminology.
