Research Guides: CRJ 650: Independent Study (Ziwei Qi): Research Strategies

Primary Resources (Data & Evidence)

Rural Kansas Help Centers

Kansas Coalition Against Sexual & Domestic Violence (KCASD) - This is a combination professional and advocacy group. Thus, keep in mind that although they provide useful information, you will need to evaluate their claims and statistics using other types of data for accuracy.
Map of Kansas Sexual & Domestic Violence Service Providers - This is from the KCASD, and provides contact information and web addresses for different providers in KS based on region.

General Kansas Statistics on Sexual & Domestic Abuse

Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KSI) - Domestic and Sexual Violence crime reports from 2004 to 2018
KCASD Statistics - Reports on services provided from 2017-2019.
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) - comprehensive statistics on legal ruling involving crime in the USA.
FBI Crime in the US Statistics - comprehensive statistics on crime in the USA from 1995-2019.

SAGE Stats
SAGE Stats features statistical data series created from more than 200,000 government and non-government datasets, covering popular topics of research interest for U.S. states, counties, cities, metropolitan areas, and ZIP codes.By harmonizing carefully-vetted data from multiple sources into the same format– allowing quick downloads, comparisons, and visualizations–SAGE Stats provides power and context for researchers at all levels.

*Funded by the State Library of Kansas. To access this resource, you will need a Kansas Library eCard. To register for an eCard, visit the Learning Commons Desk at Forsyth Library, contact Crystal Hutchinson (phone: 785-628-4645; email: cbhutchinson@fhsu.edu) or register at any public library in the state of Kansas.

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Secondary Resources (Theories & Frameworks)

Best Bet Databases
Relevant Criminal Justice Journals

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
A comprehensive database covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 400 journals.
Criminal Justice Collection
Informs the research process for researchers who are studying law, law enforcement, or terrorism, training for paralegal service, preparing for a career in homeland security, delving into forensic science, investigating crime scenes, developing policy, going to court, writing sociological reports, and much more. The Criminal Justice Collection makes research easy by bringing together information from more than 250 journals. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Nursing & Allied Health Database (Proquest)
Articles from over 700 Nursing & Allied Health journals, plus over 12,000 full-text dissertations, covering research in nursing and related fields.
Sage Premier
A multi-disciplinary database with many full-text, scholarly articles back to 1999, and citations/abstracts prior to 1999.

*China: Limited Access.

Academic Journals and trade Journals are often one of the best ways to find pertinent, scholarly articles and stay up to date with what is being discussed in the field. Journal issues are also often organized by themes, meaning if you find an article in a single issue, the rest of the issue is bound to have additional articles related to your topic.

Gender & Society

Is the official journal of Sociologists for Women in Society, and is a top-ranked journal in sociology and women's studies. Articles analyze gender and gendered processes in interactions, organizations, societies, and global and transnational spaces. The journal publishes empirical articles, along with reviews of books. This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Feminist Criminology

Feminist Criminology (FC), published five times a year, is an innovative journal dedicated to research related to women, girls, and crime within the context of a feminist critique of criminology. The official journal of the Division on Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology, this international publication focuses on research and theory that highlights the gendered nature of crime.

Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice

Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice, a peer-reviewed journal focuses on both critical leadership and practical development representing victimological perspectives from a broad range of disciplines and contribute to a greater understanding of victims, victimization, victim- offender relations, institutional functioning and allied issues.

Sexual Abuse

Sexual Abuse provides a forum for the latest original research and scholarly reviews on both clinical and theoretical aspects regarding the perpetration of sexual abuse. It is the only publication to focus exclusively on this field, thoroughly investigating its etiology, consequences, prevention, treatment and management strategies. The in-depth studies provide essential data for those working in both clinical and academic environments.

Trama, Violence, & Abuse

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse (TVA), peer-reviewed and published five times a year, is a review journal devoted to organizing, synthesizing, and expanding knowledge on all forms of trauma, abuse, and violence. Dedicated to professionals and advanced students, TVA is intended to compile knowledge that clearly affects practice, policy, and research. TVA publishes only reviews of research and law review articles. Reviewed literatures may come from the social or behavioral sciences or the law.

Violence Against Women

Violence Against Women (VAW) peer-reviewed and published monthly, is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of research and information on all aspects of the problem of violence against women. VAW assumes a broad definition of violence; topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, domestic violence, sexual assault, incest, sexual harassment, female infantcide, female circumcision, and female sexual slavery.