Criminal Justice
Articles and Databases
Search databases to find articles in peer-reviewed journals, magazines, newspapers, reference sources, and other publications. Access from off campus with your FSC username and password.
Search Everything
Use the "Search Everything" tab on the Library鈥檚 homepage to search across all library
collections, including books, ebooks, journals, magazines, newspapers, and other publications.
Articles include international business related subjects.
Articles from peer-reviewed journals, newspapers, and magazines useful for many subjects.
A great place to get started with research.
Educational films on a wide range of topics, including criminal justice and law. Includes
options to view films in short segments and read transcripts.
Information on controversial issues. Articles from academic journals, magazines, and
reference books, audio of news reporting and interviews, videos, statistics, geographic
data, and more. Covers a range of topics, including criminal justice.
Information on controversial issues. Topic overviews, essays, articles from magazines
and newspapers, government documents, and transcripts news reporting. Covers a range
of topics, including criminal justice.
Articles from peer-reviewed journals, magazines, and trade publications in the following
subjects: addiction studies, anthropology, community health & medical care, communications,
economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography,
international relations, law, mass media, minority studies, political science, psychiatry,
psychology, public welfare, social work, urban studies and more.
Articles from academic journals, trade publications, and magazines across many subjects,
including social sciences, psychology, and law.
Articles from academic journals in psychology.
Articles from academic journals, books, and dissertations in the fields of behavioral
science and mental health. Content includes psychological aspects of fields such as
medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics,
anthropology, business, law, and others.
Articles from academic journals in the fields of psychiatry, behavioral medicine,
mental health, and counseling.
Tool for researching quantitative data, statistics and related information.
Articles from academic journals in a range of subjects, including criminal justice,
law, sociology, social work, psychology, urban studies, and more.
Educational films on a wide range of topics, including criminal justice.
Newspaper Resources
A guide to newspaper resources available through 51吃瓜 and online.
Books
Textbooks
Search for criminal justice textbooks by course number via this list of textbooks on reserve. Also search by title in the Library鈥檚 . Request textbooks at the Circulation Desk. Use these books for up to two hours in the Library. Call numbers are designated by course number, e.g. CRJ 100.
Books
Find print materials and ebooks via the 鈥�Books and eBooks鈥� tab on the Library website. Search by topic, title, author, etc.
Websites
Below is a select list of websites featuring authoritative criminal justice-related content.
(BJS)
Statistics on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice
systems at all levels of government.
(UCR)
National crime statistics collected by the FBI. Publications include: Crime in the
United States, National Incident-Based Reporting System, Law Enforcement Officers
Killed and Assaulted, and Hate Crime Statistics.
(NCVS)
The United States鈥� primary source of information on criminal victimization. Data is
obtained through survey responses from the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
(NACJD)
Archived data on crime and justice from the University of Michigan.
(NCJRS) Office of Justice Programs
Browse criminal justice topics to locate information via government websites, reports,
and articles. Ask a librarian for help locating articles via the Greenley Library.
(NIJ)
View publications from the NIJ, the research, development and evaluation agency of
the U.S. Department of Justice.
(DOJ)
View DOJ .
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Citing Sources
See below for basic guidelines and examples of APA citation style.
Why Cite?
Why you need to cite sources:
- Citing sources is the only way to use other people鈥檚 work without plagiarizing (i.e. if you are using any resource [journal article, book, website, report, interview, etc.], you NEED to give credit to the original source).
- The readers of your work need citations to learn more about your ideas and where they came from.
- Citing sources shows the amount of research you鈥檝e done.
- Citing sources strengthens your work by lending outside support to your ideas.
In-Text Citations
In-text citations give credit to sources in the body of your paper. Use in-text citations when paraphrasing, directly quoting, or using ideas from sources.
- APA citation style uses the author-date method for in-text citations: Author(s)鈥� last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text.
- Names may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the date should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence.
- Include page numbers if you are directly quoting the material.
See APA How to Format Citations and Helpful Tips
Reference List
Citations in the Reference List must correspond to in-text citations; The word or
phrase you use in your in-text citations must be the first thing that appears on the
left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in the Reference List.
See APA Sample Title Page and Reference List
Formatting
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- Separate page labeled 鈥淩eferences,鈥� double-spaced, same margins as rest of paper.
- Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations by 0.5 inches to create a hanging indent.
Author Names
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- Alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
- Authors' names are inverted (last name, first initial).
- List all authors of a particular work for up to and including seven authors. If the work has more than seven authors, list the first six authors and then use ellipses (...) after the sixth author's name. After the ellipses, list the last author's name of the work.
Capitalization and Punctuation
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- Capitalize only the first word of a title and subtitle and proper nouns (books, chapters, articles, web pages).
- Italicize titles of longer works such as books and journals.
- Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as journal articles or essays in edited collections.
NoodleTools
is a citation manager that can help you generate and format citations correctly.
- Select the type of resource you are citing (article, book, website, etc.) and NoodleTools will prompt you to enter required information. A citation is then generated in your selected format.
- NoodleTools requires an account, so every time you log in your citations will be saved for you.
- When you are finished entering information, a reference list can be generated for you and exported to MS Word or Google Docs.
Citation Help
For more details and examples of APA citation style, visit the following websites:
- Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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