Criminal Justice Research & Statistics

Background Research - Encyclopedias

The Library has a large number of subject specific online encyclopedias with up-to-date articles on your paper topic. They will lead you to exhaustive and well-researched articles that are written and signed by scholars. Jump start your research with valuable background information, a detailed overview and/or a bibliography of current research. Here are two examples of typical encyclopedia articles:

"Delinquency, III. Trends and Data."
(Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice - 2002)
"Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)."
(Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics - 2006)

 Research Methods E-Reference

  Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods

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  Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods

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  Encyclopedia of Measurement and Statistics

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  Encyclopedia of Evaluation

The Encyclopedia of Evaluation is a who, what, where, how, and why of evaluation. Evaluation is a profession, a practice, a discipline—and it has developed and continues to develop through the ideas and work of evaluators and evaluation theorists working in real places with high hopes for social improvement.
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  Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods presents current and complete information, as well as ready-to-use techniques, facts, and examples from the field of qualitative research in a very accessible style.
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 Criminal Justice E-Reference

Scholarly Journal Articles

Here is a selection of databases/indexes that include peer-reviewed articles published in criminal justice and sociology journals. Contact me for further suggestions.

• Criminal Justice Abstracts
  Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.

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 Useful Article Databases

  National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including federal, state and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles and unpublished research.
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  Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)

Covers sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Journals published by sociological associations, groups, faculties and institutes, and periodicals containing the term "sociology" in their titles are abstracted fully.
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  Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest)

ProQuest Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
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  ERIC (ProQuest)

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. It indexes both journal articles and reports from government and private agencies.
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  PsycINFO 1872-current (ProQuest)

Indexes journals, dissertations and some books in the fields of personality psychology, social psychology, educational psychology and more.
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Criminal Justice Statistics

  National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including federal, state and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles and unpublished research.

  Bureau of Justice Statistics

Federal crime statistics on a wide variety of subjects from crime and victims, to criminal offenders and courts and sentencing. Data sets for analysis available online.

  Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

Presents a broad spectrum of criminal justice data from more than 100 sources in 6 sections.

  Crime in the United States (Uniform Crime Report - FBI)

Crime in the United States (CIUS) is an annual publication in which the FBI compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies. This report also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data.

  DataPlanet

Search and browse for datasets on topics ranging from banking to criminal justice to economic indicators to health to labor to natural resources and transportation gleaned from government agencies, private exchanges, and international organizations. Statistical Datasets supports customized graphing, mapping and even has some common statistical functions.

  ICPSR

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Click for searching tips.

  Social Trends and Indicators USA

"Provides detailed statistics on social issues paired with expert analyses of the statistics."

Citing Your Sources

• Documenting Source in APA Style

  Research and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker. Includes sample paper and list of cited reference in APA style.

  Sample APA style paper and list of cited references.

• Export references in APA style for your cited reference list.
  Use the "Add to Folder" links to create a list of potentially useful articles then switch to Folder View and Select all items. Click on the "Save as File" icon to the right of your results and select APA in the drop down menu under "Citation Format." Click on "Save" and then copy and paste the resulting list of APA style citations into your word file. APA is the most widely used style in the social sciences.
  

• Refworks

  Never type a bibliography again! RefWorks will help you easily gather, manage, and store bibliographic citations for all types of information, as well as generate footnotes and bibliographies.

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