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These databases are a good place to start your research. A full list can be found on the Databases page of this guide.

Criminal Justice Abstracts
Crime and criminals, criminology, forensics, police procedures and methods, prevention and safety, crime trends, corrections, jails, prisons, juvenile delinquency, courts, offender tracking, probation, victims, sentencing, and alternative sentencing. Hosted by EBSCO.
ProQuest Central: Criminal Justice
Covers topics in criminology and criminal justice
JSTOR
Limit to criminal justice articles by clicking on Advanced Search and choosing the journal filter - Criminology & Criminal Justice.
PsycInfo
Psychology, mental health, addictions and treatment, therapies, experiments, case studies, pharmacology, physiology, psychiatric nursing, linguistics, social work.

ICPSR
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. Begun in 1962 and is a consortium of over 750 institutions.

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