A. Criminal Justice Indexes and Abstracts

Social Sciences Full Text: The basic index for finding articles in the social sciences. Indexes over 550 of the core, English language journals in social science disciplines including criminal justice, sociology and social work, public administration, political science, public welfare, and urban studies. Indexes many journals back to 1982 and, beginning with 1995, includes many full-text articles. [Rutgers-restricted Access]

: While Social Sciences Full Text will usually give you what you need for a basic research paper, if you're working on a more extensive project, or a more specialized topic, you may need an index with a more comprehensive criminal justice focus such as:

Criminal Justice Abstracts: Comprehensive index to journals, books, government publications, dissertations, and reports relating to criminal justice, criminology, and related disciplines from 1968 to the present. This index is based on materials found in the Criminal Justice Collection located in the Rutgers Center for Law and Justice in Newark, and is the most complete catalog for that collection. [Rutgers-restricted Access] Rutgers users may request items not available from other Rutgers University Libraries through Interlibrary Loan.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS): Index to over 190,000 criminal justice publications, including books, government and research reports, and journal articles from the early 1970s to the present. Includes links to full text documents when available.

Criminology, Penology and Police Science Abstracts: Index to books and about 475 journals worldwide with an emphasis on the causes of crime and juvenile delinquency and the theoretical aspects of police science and criminal justice. ALEXANDER 1992-1995 REF HV 6001 .E91
Previously:
Criminology and Penology Abstracts (1980-1991) ALEXANDER, CAMDEN (1980-1986 only) REF HV 6001 .E9
Abstracts on Criminology and Penology (1969-1979) ALEXANDER HV 6001 .E9, CAMDEN REF HV 6001 .E9; DANA REF Z 5118 .C9 E9
Excerpta Criminologica (1961-1968) ALEXANDER HV 6001 .E9, CAMDEN (1965-1968 only) REF HV 6001 .E9; DANA REF Z 5118 .C9 E9

Homeland Security Digital Library: Full-text collection of materials relating to homeland security in areas such as borders and immigration, infrastructure protection, intelligence, law and justice, terrorism, and weapons and weapons systems. Includes U.S. policy documents, congressional hearings and reports, presidential directives, and reports from academic and other research centers and institutes, state and local agencies, and other selected organizations and entities. [Rutgers-restricted Access]

B. Legal and Legislative Indexes

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text: 1982 - Index, in many cases with full text (1994- ), to English-language legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, symposia, court decisions, legislation, books, and government publications. Note: In order to limit your search to the Index to Legal Periodicals you must select "Legal (ILP)" from the pull-down Subject Area list. [Rutgers-restricted Access]

LexisNexis Academic: Includes indexes to legal periodicals and law reviews, federal and state case law, Shepard's ® for US Supreme Court cases, and federal and state codes and regulations. Includes full text coverage of current news. [Rutgers-restricted Access]

Hein-On-Line: Search or browse a large retrospective collection of law journals. [Rutgers-restricted Access/No remote access for general Rutgers community]

THOMAS - Legislative Information on the Internet: Browse or search legislation from the 93d (1973) Congress to the present. You can also search the full text of the Congressional Record from the 101st (1989) Congress to the present, and browse or search the full text of House and Senate committee reports from the 104th (1995) Congress to the present.

New Jersey Legislature Home Page: Search or browse the New Jersey Statutes, including Title 2C, The New Jersey Code of Criminal Justice [click on the plus sign to see the sub-section headings]. You can also search the legislative histories of New Jersey bills beginning with the 1996/1997 session; as well as find New Jersey Legislative Reports and Public Hearings Transcripts.

Opinions of the New Jersey Courts: Searchable full-text archive of the Opinions of the New Jersey Courts, including the Supreme Court, from March, 1994 to date, the Superior Court Appellate Division and the Tax Court from September, 1995 to date. From the Rutgers School of Law-Camden.

Findlaw-Supreme Court Opinions: Searchable full-text archive of United States Supreme Court opinions from 1893 to the present.

C. Related Indexes

Need information relating to public policy?

PAIS International: 1915- Index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and public policy issues. The database covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports, government documents, and microfiche. [Rutgers-restricted Access]

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts: 1975- Index to over 1,300 journals in political science, international relations, public policy and related fields.[Rutgers-restricted Access]

Need literature that focuses on forensic sciences, biomedical issues or the provision of health care?

Medline: 1950- Index to over 4800 current biomedical journals. Useful for locating articles relating to forensic sciences--especially forensic medicine and psychiatry--as well as articles relating to anti-social behavior (family violence, child abuse, sex crimes, etc.) within a clinical perspective. [Rutgers-restricted Access]

Healthstar: 1966- Index to published literature on health services, technology, administration, and research. Healthstar focuses on both the clinical and non-clinical aspects of health care delivery. [Rutgers-restricted Access]

Need literature that focuses on psychological issues?

PsycINFO: Indexes over 1900 journals and dissertations, book chapters and conference papers in psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines including criminal justice. [Rutgers-restricted Access]

Need literature that focuses on society and social issues?

Sociological Abstracts: Indexes over 2000 journals, dissertations, conference papers and selected books in sociology and related disciplines including criminal justice. [Rutgers-restricted Access]

Depending on your specific topic, there may be other indexes that you might find useful. From the Rutgers University Libraries home page, click on Indexes and Databases for a list of additional databases you may want to search.