Penology & Corrections Research Guide

Scholarly Journal Articles

• Criminal Justice Abstracts
  Covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts and sentencing.
• Sociological Abstracts
  Indexes scholarly journals in the field of sociology.
• Social Services Abstracts
  Covers current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas.
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS)
  Contains summaries of more than 190,000 publications including books, government reports; research reports; and unpublished research. It also includes content from 189 journals, including 12 with core coverage.

The above listed four databases can be searched simultaneously by clicking on the Specific Databases link on the initial search screen and checking off the appropriate titles.

• Opposing Viewpoints Resources
  Access information on social issues through viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
• HeinOnline
  This legal database provides fully-searchable and image-based text of over 500 law journals.
• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Includes numerous law reviews.

 Please contact your librarian for further database recommendations.

Laws, Bills & Policy Initiatives in PA

• Pennsylvania General Assembly
  Find PA House and Senate bills.
  Making Law in Pennsylvania. Legislation in the PA House of Representatives.
• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Use the Legal tab to find Federal & State Cases as well as Federal & State Codes.
• HeinOnline
  PA session laws from 1931-2007.
• Philadelphia Inquirer
  News reports on PA politics back to 1981.

Crime & Corrections in PA by the Numbers

• PA Dept. of Corrections
  Monthly updates of institution profiles and prison population reports as well as the PA execution list.
• Statistical Lexis Nexis
  Custom maps and graphs of state level criminal justice data.
• PA Uniform Crime Reports
• Bureau of Criminal Justice Statistics
• ICPSR

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
  See entries on Prisons: History, Punishment or Capital Punishment. These articles give historical background information and provide a quick overview over the status quo of scholarly research. They also have cross-references to related topics and a bibliography. All of the articles are written by scholars.
• Encyclopedia of Sociology
  See entry on Theories of Crime.
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  See entry on Punishment.
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
  See entry on Crime and Punishment.
• Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment
• Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice
• Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities

Books

• The Library's Catalog
  Find titles such as Correctional Populations in the U.S. and
  subject search: "prisons united states"
• WorldCat
  A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holdings and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
• Dissertations & Theses Full Text
• E-Z Borrow and Interlibrary Loan
  Interlibrary loan is available for books and journals that are not owned by Falvey. EZ-Borrow is usually faster than interlibrary loan, since the books come from a local library network. EZ-Borrow can be used for books that the Library owns, but that are currently checked out by somebody else.

Citing Your Sources

• Documenting Source in APA Style:
  Research and Documentation Online by Diana Hacker.
• 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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