Research Guides: Criminal Justice: Databases

Renovation Update

The Welcome Desk will reopen in Forsyth Library on Monday, January 27, 2025 and will be open Monday-Friday 7:30am - 6pm. Enter through the northeast accessible door. For a full list of library hours visit: https://libcal.fhsu.edu/hours/

Due to renovation construction, there will be limited access to the library building beginning August 19, 2024.

Use the northeast accessible entrance to reach the Welcome Desk or Special Collections & Archives. The Welcome Desk is open M - F 7:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Special Collections & Archives is available by appointment; contact Brian Gribben at b_gribben@fhsu.edu or call 785-628-5511.
Check out technology and pick up books on hold or requested through Interlibrary Loan at the Welcome Desk. Instructions on how to place a hold are at the bottom of this box.
There are no study spaces or public restrooms available in Forsyth Library at this time. See other study spaces that are open late.
Most Library staff and the Media Lab have moved to Custer Hall.
Electronic resources, including databases, the Scholars Repository, and the Ask a Librarian research help service, remain accessible.
For updates, check the Renovation Status Page on our website and follow our Renovation Blog.

How to Request a Book for Pickup (text)

How to Request a Book for Pickup (video)

Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full-Text This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 400,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Subject areas covered include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.
Legal Collection This link opens in a new window
This database contains full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis, including Federal and State legal cases, U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790, full-text of U.S. & World newspapers, business articles, financials, and company/industry information & profiles. Try out the new intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. Nexis Uni is the new site for the resource formerly known as LexisNexis Academic.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline is the world's largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,500 scholarly journals. HeinOnline provides topic specific databases including all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law, and Women and the Law among others. Full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase is included.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts This link opens in a new window
A federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
Social Sciences Full-text This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles and citations covering the social sciences, and topics such as: Addiction, Family, Gender, Psychology, Psychiatry, Criminal Justice, Corrections, Gerontology, Social Work, Sociology and more.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database provides citations and abstracts from journal articles, dissertations and book reviews, of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.