Research Guides: Criminal Justice: Databases

Renovation Update

Starting Monday, May 19, the Forsyth Library building will be closed for the remainder of the renovation. The Welcome Desk is open in Custer Hall 304. To see current hours visit: https://libcal.fhsu.edu/hours/

Many services and collections are available throughout the renovation.

Check out technology and pick up books on hold or requested through Interlibrary Loan at the Welcome Desk in Custer 304. Instructions on how to place a hold are at the bottom of this box.
Electronic resources, including databases, the Scholars Repository, and the Ask a Librarian research help service, remain accessible.
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Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full-Text
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 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
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
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
A federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
Social Sciences Full-text
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 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.