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Online Databases
and Websites in Criminal Justice  
Citation Guides - correct
format for proper documentation
Databases -
scholarly material, citation only and full text
E Books - use free electronic texts when
you can't find the printed book
Federal Laws and Court Decisions
General Web Resources - selective sites with
broad coverage in all aspects of criminal justice
Government Resources - local, state, federal and
international; also historical texts
Law Enforcement
Massachusetts State Laws
Quick Reference -
quality, credible, and timely reference
resources -mostly all are free
Specific Crimes -
Statistical Data
Web Directories - subject guides
to selective and carefully chosen sites on the Web
Web Search in a Nutshell -
getting started in library research
Subscription Databases Available
Only to the WSC Community:
Criminal
Justice Periodicals Index. a
comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals
including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections
administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial
security. Abstract and indexing for over 230 titles,
with more than 75 available in full-text.
Lexis-Nexis
Provides
full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and
reference publications with a variety of flexible search options.
Sociological Abstracts - via CSA Illumina (1952-present) citations and
abstracts with good coverage of criminal justice and other social issues.
Public Affairs International. Public
affairs and worlds issues with coverage from 1972 to the present. An
index to over 1/2 million articles, books, government documents,
Internet sites and documents from more than 120 countries. Obviously useful for global issues
in criminal justice.
Newspapers
- our Web page with links to daily and searchable
archives of online newspapers - most databases available with remote access.
Also links to wire and television news services. Two archive databases,
Massachusetts Newsstand with coverage of 14 major state papers
and National Newspapers with coverage of 27 important U.S.
newspapers full text, including the New York Times and
Washington Post.
Academic Search Complete
- indexes
both popular and academic periodicals in all subject areas.
Many full text in HTML or PDF format.
Search Tips (PDF)
Academic
One File
indexes
peer-reviewed, full text articles available in HTML or PDF formats from
the world's leading journals and reference sources. Also has full text
New York Times content back to 1995, hundreds of podcasts and
transcripts from radio and television broadcasts.
Search Tips
(PDF)
Funded
by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the six Massachusetts Regional Library Systems.
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Other Web
Resources - selective list of free sites
General
Federal Laws and Court
Decisions 
- US
Government Links - our Web page with links to the US Constitution,
US Code, Federal Register, Congressional Record, and more
- US Supreme Court Opinions -Full
text of all decisions from 1893 to date. Can be searched by citation, case
title, and full text
- Supreme Court Collection
-From
the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University. Provides full text of
all US Supreme Court decisions since 1990, plus 610 of the most significant
earlier decisions. Indexed by topic, date, and parties.
- United
State Public Laws 1973-Present
- From Thomas/Library of Congress; access
to full text of Public Laws beginning with those of the 93rd Congress.
Listed by law number and bill number.
State Laws
(Massachusetts)
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Statistical Data
- Fed Stats -
one stop shopping for Federal Statistics
- National
Archive of Criminal Justice Data - From the Inter-University Consortium
for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan. A
collection of data sets compiled by government agencies and individual
researchers. To download data, you must be at a computer where you can copy
files to a local disk.
- Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics Online - brings together data from more
than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United
States. Supported by the US FBI. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader®.
- Uniform Crime Reports - From US FBI. Data on
crimes reported and cleared, persons arrested, drugs in America. Also
contains "Crime in the United States", an annual publication from
1995 +
- US
Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Data on crime victims, criminal
offenders, law enforcement personnel, prisoners, and corrections staff.
Law Enforcement
- Massachusetts
State Police - Department's divisions, recruitment, news, crime
statistics, wanted and missing persons
- Massachusetts
Department of Corrections
- information on the Department's programs,
with a directory of statistical reports
- US Federal
Bureau of Investigation - links to the Bureau's activities, history,
press releases, employment opportunities, Most Wanted, and a family page.
- National
Center for Women and Policing - news and research on women in law
enforcement
- Security
on Campus, Inc. - Newswire, research, crime statistics, law enforcement
issues on the nation's campuses
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Specific Crimes
- Victims' Rights and Services for the 21st
Century - online book from the US Department of Justice. Summary of
recent advances in victims' rights
- US Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention - federal program descriptions, trends,
juvenile arrests, news, research reports, statistics, and state contacts
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Child Abuse, Child Welfare
& Adoption - foremost
bibliographic resource on the maltreatment, safety, permanency and
well-being of children. FREE registration required
- National Youth Gang Center - Institute for
Intergovernmental Research. Statistical data, legislation, descriptions
of anti-gang programs, and a new FAQ section
- Correctional Boot Camps - From the US
National Institute of Justice. A 314 page research report on boot
camps. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader®
- Rand Drug Policy Research Center - From the
Rand Corporation. Studies on drug control policy, annual newsletter
(HTML or PDF), and related links.
- United Nations Office
on Drugs and
Crime - drug abuse, drug supply reduction, terrorism, human
trafficking, treaties, statistics worldwide
- Counter Terrorism - from the National
Security Institute. Full text of legislation; reports, facts, commentaries,
precautionary advice.
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network - US
Department of the Treasury; concerning the complex crime of money laundering,
both domestically and internationally
- National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and
Neglect - US Dept. of Health & Human Services. Searchable database
of documents, links to Web resources; legal issues, related issues, state
specific information; information in Spanish also.
- Hate Crimes
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Definitions, causes, legal aspects,
enforcement, facts & figures, related resources.
Web
Directories
There are excellent subject
directories on the web. that can point you to the best online
resources in specific areas of criminal justice. These
human guides to the Internet are a great way to find the best of the
Web, and often find sites that can't be accessed by search engines.
The best ones to use
for scholarly material are:
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Librarians
Internet Index - Provides
a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy,
librarian-selected Internet resources. Covers a broad range of
subjects, has both a topical directory arrangement and search capabilities.
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InfoMine - Virtual library of
scholarly Internet resources.
Features
well organized access; notable for its
collection of annotated and indexed links.
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Academic Info -
gateway
to freely available academic resources on the web,
with annotated entries. General links, related topics, in
the news sections.
More
subject directories on the web
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