Periodicals & Indexes and Databases


This directory provides links to web-based scholarly journals and serial titles that offer access to the table of contents, abstracts and full text of relevant journals in criminal justice research. Titles are listed alphabetically as follows:

ACTA CRIMINOLGICA: Southern African Journal of Criminology
search.sabinet.co.za/WebZ/Authorize:sessionid=0:autho=guest:password=guest1&&context;/AdvancedQuery?&next=crim/crim_abstract.html&bad=error/badsearchframe.html
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text


African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies
www.umes.edu/ajcjs/ 
Abstracts & Full Text

Alaska Justice Forum
justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/ 
Table of Contents & Full Text

Alcohol Studies Bulletin (New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research)
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocsar/ll_bocsar.nsf/pages/bocsar_pub_alcohol
Table of Contents & Full Text

American Jails
www.corrections.com/aja/publications/magazine_about.shtml
Full Text of Selected Articles

Annual Review of Sociology
arjournals.annualreviews.org/loi/soc?cookieSet=1
Abstracts & Full Text 

Anuario de Derecho Penal
www.unifr.ch/derechopenal/punu.htm
Full Text of Selected Articles (In Spanish)

Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice
www.apcj.org/
Online Full Text Journal

Apropa
www.bra.se/extra/apropa/?button_show_oldnumbers.=1
In Swedish

Boalt Journal of Law: former California Criminal Law Review
www.boalt.org/bjcl/
Full Text

Boletin Criminologico
www.uma.es/estudios/propias/criminologia/Publicaciones/BOLETIN_PORTADA.HTM
Table of Contents & Abstracts

British Journal of Criminology
bjc.oxfordjournals.org/archive/
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Buffalo Criminal Law Review
wings.buffalo.edu/academic/department/law/bclc/bclr.htm
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Bulletin Official French Ministry of Justice
www.justice.gouv.fr/actua/bo/bo.htm
Table of Contents & Full Text

Bulletin on Narcotics
www.unodc.org/unodc/bulletin_on_narcotics.html
Table of Contents & Full Text

Canadian Journal of Criminology
static.highbeam.com/c/canadianjournalofcriminology/index.html
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Canadian Journal of Sociology
www.arts.ualberta.ca/cjscopy/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text of Feature Article

Champ Penal
champpenal.revues.org/
Table of Contents & Abstracts, in French and English

Contemporary Justice Review
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10282580.asp
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Contemporary Sociology
www.jstor.org/journals/00943061.html
Tables of Contents & Full Text of Issues More Than 5 Years Old

Crime, Law and Social Change
www.kluweronline.com/issn/0925-4994
Table of Contents

Crime Reduction Research Series
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/crimreducpubs1.html
Titles, Briefing Note & Full Text

Crime & Justice Bulletin (New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics & Research)
www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/bocsar/ll_bocsar.nsf/pages/bocsar_pub_cjb
Titles & Full Text

Criminal Justice Ethics
www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/cje/
Table of Contents

Criminal Justice Matters
www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/ccjs/cjm/cjm.html
Table of Contents

Criminal Justice Studies
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1478601x.asp
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Criminal Law Forum
www.kluweronline.com/issn/1046-8374
Table of Contents

Criminologie
www.erudit.org/revue/crimino/
In French

Criminologist
www.asc41.com/criminologist.html
Official newsletter of the American Society of Criminology

Criminology
www.asc41.com/
Abstracts

The Criminology, Victimology and Security Review
www.vittimologia.it/rivista/homepage_en.htm
Titles & Full Text


Crimiscope

www.unil.ch/esc/page19064.html
Table of Contents & Full-Text (in French and German)

Critical Criminologist
http://critcrim.org/the_critical_criminologist
Table of Contents & Full Text

Electronic Journal of Sociology
www.sociology.org/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

ERCES (European & International Research Group on Crime, Ethics and Social Philosophy) Online Quarterly Review
www.erces.com/journal/Journal.htm
Online Full Text Journal

European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice
www.kluweronline.com/issn/0928-9569
Table of Contents of Recent Issues

European Journal of International Law
www.ejil.org/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Expert Evidence
www.kluweronline.com/issn/0965-3643
Table of Contents of Recent Issues

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/leb.htm
Table of Contents & Full Text

Forum on Corrections Research
www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/forum/index_e.shtml
Table of Contents & Full Text

Forensic Science Communications
www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/current/index.htm
Table of Contents & Full Text

Global Alcohol Database
www3.who.int/whosis/menu.cfm?path=whosis,alcohol&language=english
This Global Alcohol Database provides a standardized reference source of information for global epidemiological surveillance of alcohol use, alcohol related problems and alcohol policies.

Global Jurist
www.bepress.com/gj/
Site comprises three journals: Global Jurist Topics; Global Jurist Advances; and Global Jurist Frontiers.
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Harm Reduction Journal
www.harmreductionjournal.com
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Homeland Security Affairs
www.hsaj.org/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Human Security Journal
www.peacecenter.sciences-po.fr/journal
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Humboldt Forum Recht
www.humboldt-forum-recht.de/English.html
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Institute for Public Policy Research
www.ippr.org/search/?title=&policyarea=27&search=search
Table of Contents & Full Text

International Journal of Conflict and Violence
www.ijcv.org/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences
www.ijcjs.co.nr
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

International Journal of Criminlogy
www.cybercrimejournal.co.nr/
Table of Contents & Full Text

International Journal of Digital Evidence
www.ijde.org/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text (HTML & PDF formats)

International Journal of Drug Testing
www.criminology.fsu.edu/journal/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

International Journal of Forensic Psychology
ijfp.psyc.uow.edu.au/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text 

International Journal of Rural Crime
www.ruralfutures.une.edu.au/rurcrime/ijrc.htm/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text 

Internet Journal of Criminology
www.internetjournalofcriminology.com/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Irish Probation Journal
www.protectnands.org/ipj.asp
Table of Contents & Full Text

Japan Criminal Policy Security Journal (a.k,a. Crime and Punishment)
www.jcps.or.jp/body/03_tsumibatsu.html
Table of Contents, In Japanese only

Journal of the Center for Families, Children & the Courts
www.courtinfo.ca.gov/programs/cfcc/resources/publications/journal/vol6.htm
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Journal of Credibility Assessment and Witness Psychology
truth.boisestate.edu/jcaawp/default.html
Full Text

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
www.albany.edu/scj/jcjpc/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Journal of Economic Crime Management
www.jecm.org/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text (HTML & PDF formats)

Journal of Family Violence
www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0885-7482
Table of Contents of Recent Issues

Journal of the Oklahoma Justice Research Consortium
www.doc.state.ok.us/DOCS/OCJRC/OCJRC_Journals.htm
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Journal of Physical Security
jps.lanl.gov/index.html
Online Full Text Journal

Journal of Prisoners on Prisons
www.jpp.org/
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text of Selected Volumes

Journal of Quantitative Criminology
www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0748-4518
Table of Contents of Recent Issues

Justice Research and Policy
www.jrsa.org/pubs/
Table of Contents and Abstracts

Juvenile Justice Magazine
www.juvenilejustice.com/
List of Topics & Full Text

Law and Contemporary Problems
www.law.duke.edu/journals/lcp/
Table of Contents & Full Text

Law and Human Behavior
www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0147-7307
Table of Contents of Recent Issues

Law Enforcement Executive Forum
www.leeforum.com
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Le Journal International De Victimologie (in French)
www.jidv.com/
Table of Contents, Abstracts, & Full Text

Let's Talk
www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/pblct/letstalk/letstalk_e.shtml
Table of Contents & Full Text

Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law
www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/
Table of Contents & Full Text

National Drug Court Institute Review
www.ndci.org/ndcirpub.html
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

National Institute of Justice Journal
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/
Table of Contents & Full Text

Picturing Justice: the Online Journal of Law and Popular Culture
www.usfca.edu/pj/
Full Text

Police Beat (News Stories)
www.policebeat.net/
Table of Contents & Full Text

Police Chief Magazine
www.policechiefmagazine.org/
Table of Contents & Full Text

Police Command Studies International
www.police-studies.com/
Table of Contents & Full Text

Police Magazine
www.polfed.org/magazine.asp
Full Text

Police Practice and Research
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/15614263.asp
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Police Research Series (Home Office)
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/policerspubs1.html
Titles, Summary Report & Full Text

Policing and Society
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10439463.html
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Prison Privatisation Report
www.psiru.org/justice/
Full Text

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
www.australianacademicpress.com.au/Publications/Journals/PPL/ppl.htm
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Psychology Crime and Law
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1068316x.asp
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Quarterly Review of Alcohol Research
portman-group.org.uk/publications/222.asp
Table of Contents & Full Text

Red Feather Journal of Postmodern Criminology
www.critcrim.org/redfeather/journal-pomocrime/pomocrimindex.html
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Research and Public Policy Series (Australian Institute of Criminology)
www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/index.html

Listing of Titles & Abstracts & Earlier Editions Available in Full Text

Scandinavian Studies in Law
sisl.juridicum.su.se
Volumes 1-37 (1957-1993) are available in full text.  All volumes can be browsed using a cumulative index or searched by keyword, author, or volume.

Science & Justice: Journal of the Forensic Science Society
www.forensic-science-society.org.uk/publications/saj.html
Table of Contents & Full Text

Scientific Testimony: An Online Journal
www.scientific.org/
Table of Contents & Full Text

Scottish Journal of Criminal Justice Studies (SASO)
www.sastudyoffending.org.uk/journal.html
Table of Contents & Full Text

Sociological Methodology
depts.washington.edu/socmeth2/
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Sociological Research Online
www.socresonline.org.uk
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Sociological Forum
www.nyu.edu/pubs/sociological.forum/
Table of Contents & Abstracts

Southwest Journal of Criminal Justice
swjcj.cjcenter.org/copyright.html
Table of Contents & Full Text

Surveillance and Society
www.nyu.edu/pubs/sociological.forum/
Table of Contents & Full Text

Transit Policing: A Journal for the Transit Police Service
home1.gte.net/tpnews/
Current issue and archives

Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice
www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/index.html
Listing of Papers, Abstracts & Full Text

Web Journal of Current Legal Issues
webjcli.ncl.ac.uk/admin/wjclidex.html
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text

Western Criminology Review
wcr.sonoma.edu
Table of Contents, Abstracts & Full Text


Indexes and Databases

The Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII)
www.asianlii.org/

"AsianLII includes 101 databases from 22 of the 27 Asian countries, from Mongolia in the north to Timor Leste in the south.  Japan in the east to Pakistan in the west.  It includes about 150,000 full text cases, and over 15,000 items of legislation, plus law reform reports, a few law journals, and other materials.  All of this content may be searched simultaneously.  For each of the 27 countries, AsianLII allows a search over that country's databases, plus a websearch over a Catalog of other law sites from that country, plus a 'Law on Google' search restricted to legal materials from that country."


Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database

www.nisc.com/factsheets/qcan.asp

"Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database broadly presents information about the well-being of children. Subject areas covered include: child maltreatment, out-of-home placement and adoption. Information on service programs, prevention programs, federally funded research, training programs, and ethnicity and cultural competency."


Child Trafficking Research Hub
childtrafficking.org/eng/

The Child Trafficking Research Hub contains a database of documents, news items, organizations and research projects related to child trafficking.


CINCH: Australian Institute of Criminology

www.aic.gov.au/

"The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) is Australia's national organization for the study of crime and criminal justice and for the dissemination of information on these subjects.
" The website provides a searchable database of its special reports as well as annual reports.

California Commission on Peace Officer Standards & Training (POST) Library

www.post.ca.gov/library/

The POST Library was established to assist the Commission, staff, and California peace officers in their research efforts. The POST Library database contains
citations and brief abstracts for over 48,000 articles dating from the early 1960s.


Database of Legal Aid Materials
www.justiceinitiative.org/activities/ncjr/atj/legalaidresources

This database of the Open Society Justice International includes resources on international standards on the right to legal aid, legal aid laws and regulatins, organization and management of a legal aid system, models for legal aid delivery, quality standards, and research on legal aid.

DrugData
www.drugscope.org.uk/resources/databases/drugdata.htm

DrugData is a fully searchable database of over 100,000 records of drugs literature in the English Language. The database is free of charge.

DrugScope Library
www.drugscope.org.uk/library/librarysection/libraryhome.asp

DrugScope's information and Library Service provides the following web-based resources: Drug search, online encyclopedia of drugs and their history, effects and law.  DrugData, a searchable database of over 1,000,000 records of drugs literature to the English language; Library Latest;, Monograph and Grey Literature: Pathfinders; and Reading Lists on popular topics.


E
ldis Development Research, Development Policy, Development Practice
www.eldis.org/

The Eldis gate to development information provides easy access to a wide range of online resources, including a number of publications addressing criminal justice issues.


The Electronic Library of the National Documentation Centre on Drug Use (NDC)
www.ndc.hrb.ie/searchelec.php?msel=2

The NDC contains bibliographic records and full text of Irish research and policy documents.  The NDC database also contains bibliographic records of the NDC library’s book collection. You can search the database using free text (simple search) or by specific fields (advanced search).

Elisad - European Association of Librarires and Information Services on Alcohol and Other Drugs
www.addictionsinfo.eu/

This gateway provides descriptions of and links to European websites and Internet resources on the use and misuse of drugs and other psychoactive substances.


FindLaw
www.findlaw.com/

The FindLaw provides an comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, businesses, students and individuals.  These resources include Web search utilities, cases and codes, legal news, an online career center, and community-oriented tools, including secure document management utilities, mailing lists, message boards and free e-mail.

Google Scholar

scholar.google.com/

Google Scholar enables users to search scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed articles, books, and technical reports. A search might lead you to a citation for an article or book (which users will have to obtain from a library) or sometimes to a full text report.

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
www.hsdl.org/

"The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is a compendium of materials available for scholarly research in the area of Homeland Security.  Materials selected for inclusion include publications from: governmental departments and agencies, academic institutions, think tanks, conference sites, non- governmental organizations, institutes and organizations and other entities deemed credible by the content develop team."

Human Security Gateway
www.humansecuritygateway.info/

"The Human Security Gateway is a searchable online database of human security-related resources including reports, journal articles, news items and fact sheets. It is designed to make human security-related research more accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, educators and the interested public."


Human Trafficking Bibliography DB
www.no-trafficking.org/content/Human_Trafficking_Library/humantrafficking.htm

The bibliographic database is intended to cover as much of the available information as possible in the Mekong Sub-region.  A Quick Search allows you to locate references in the database by searching by author, keyword, periodical, and/or publication date (indexed fields). Just click in your search terms and press enter.


Ingenta

www.ingenta.com

Ingenta is a searchable database of more than 11 million citations from over 25,000 publications. Electronic, fax, and pay-per-view document delivery is available for many of the articles.  In order to use this database visitors will have to pay a fee.

International Juvenile Justice Observatory (IJJO) - Documentation Center
www.ijjo.org/documental_resultado.php?total=10&tampag=10&vis=C&pags=1&pag=030100

The documentation center can be searched by title, author, country, or category.  Category includes international legislations, national legislations, grey legislations, publication sand multimedia.


International Victimology Website Database

www.victimology.nl/

"To further the cross-national sharing of expertise and experience, the IVW is building two databases: the Victimology Research Database containing brief descriptions of victimology research projects now in progress and the Victim Services and Victimization Prevention Database comprising descriptive and evaluative information about services/programs for victims of crime and abuse of power. "

Intute (Formerly SOSIG)
www.intute.ac.uk/

Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners.

Juvenile Justice Panel
www.juvenilejusticepanel.org/en/

Official website of the Interagency Panel on Juvenile Justice. Designed to make available information and resources i the area of juvenile justice. Includes sections on international standards, data and statistics, glossary, and resources and training. In English, French and Spanish.

Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
www.mincava.umn.edu/

The mission of the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) is "to support research, education, and access to violence related resources."  This website contains published materials from national and international violence prevention organizations, researchers, and authors.

National Center for Children Exposed To Violence
www.nccev.org/

"The NCCEV Resource Center at the Yale Child Study Center provides public access to a wide variety of materials on children’s exposure to violence within homes, schools, and communities. The collections – both virtual and physical – address research, public awareness, and the application of principles and practices in intervention and prevention."

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)

www.ncjrs.gov/abstractdb/search.asp

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service is an information clearinghouse created by the U.S. Department of Justice for people involved in research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. The "NCJRS Abstracts Database" is the largest collection of criminal justice abstracts in the world. It
contains summaries of over 180,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research.

National Registry of Evidence-Based Program and Practice (NREPP)
nrepp.samhsa.gov/about.htm

The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is a searchable online registry of mental health and substance abuse interventions that have been reviewed and rated by independent reviewers.


New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse

www.nzfvc.org.nz/

"The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse provides access to research, information and resources on various aspects of family violence. Items can be searched by Resource Area or Topic Area key words."

The NYU Library Guide to Foreign and International Legal Database
law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/

A searchable guide produced by NYU Law school covering a multitude of criminal justice and legal interests of many foreign countries. The database includes such topics as foreign and international search engines, constitutions, human rights, international criminal law, international law databases and virtual libraries.

Prison Health Research Network
www.phrn.nhs.uk/

Funded by the Department of Health, this network is a collaboration of many different universities. Their areas of work are health research in prisons and health research in th epolice, courts and probation. The database includes information of ethics and governmental approvals, funding opportunities, policy and reports, and a research library.

PsycINFO
www.apa.org/psycinfo/

PsycINFO (www.apa.org/psycinfo) contains abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, technical reports, and English-language chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines such as sociology, education, law, psychiatry, and anthropology. It includes coverage of several criminal justice periodicals. Because PsycINFO is an abstract
database, it does not have the full text of the articles.  Users may be able to purchase some of the articles for a fee.


Questia

www.questia.com/

Questia is an online library offering the full text and images of scholarly books, journals, magazines, and newspaper articles in the humanities and social sciences. Visitors can search the collection at no cost, but if Visitors need access to the full text of any document you must purchase a subscription to the service.

Restorative Justice Database, University of Toronto

link.library.utoronto.ca/criminology/restorative_justice/

"Created and maintained by the Centre of Criminology Library at University of Toronto, this database includes citations to academic and practitioner literature from 1970 to the present."

Restorative Justice Online
www.restorativejustice.org/research/

"Restorative Justice Online is a service of the Centre for Justice & Reconciliation at Prison Fellowship International. Information on PFI can be found on the Prison Fellowship International Website.  The Research Tool is a searchable database of over 5,000 articles on restorative justice. Most articles have been abstracted, and a large number are available on the web or as full-text articles on Restorative Justice Online."

Social Care Online
www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/

Social Care Online is an electronic Library for Social Care (eLSC). Self-described as "the UK's most extensive database of social care information" containing everything from research briefings, to reports, government documents, journal articles, and websites.


Terrorism Library (Institute for the Study of Violent Groups)
www.isvg.org/index.php?option=com_bibliography&mode=&catid=&Itemid=47

This Terrorism Library includes abstracts of research materials on terrorism, counter terrorism, homeland security, and organized crime.  Included in the database are abstracts of books, journal articles, reports, monographs, dissertations and theses, and conference papers.


Universal Human Rights Index
www.universalhumanrightsindex.org/

The Universal Human Rights Index provides instant access for all countries to human rights information from the United Nations system. The index is based on the observations and recommendations of the following international expert bodies:


The U.K. Statute Law Database

www.statutelaw.gov.uk/Home.aspx

The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online.  The databse can be searched on Key-words or by year.

VioLit-
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
ibs.colorado.edu/cspv/infohouse/violit/

"VioLit, as the abbreviated title indicates is a bibliographic database about violence literature published by Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), a research program of the Institute of Behavioral Science (IBS) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. This database covers information about violence, primarily juvenile violence, from books, literature reviews, journal articles and reports. A list of keywords indexed in the database can be browsed to select specific records. The database record provides information about author, article title, source or publication information, date of publication, location of the document or Web site link, ISSN, and an abstract description about the publication."