Subject Resource Guide for Criminal Justice

Selected and updated by reference librarians in support of the TC3 program in Criminal Justice. Selection criteria include quality, content, reliability and currency.

• Find Articles in Ebsco Databases
• Crime and Criminal Justice
• Police and Law Enforcement
• Courts
• Corrections

Find Articles in Ebsco Databases

You can use the customized search box below to locate articles in criminal justice journals in the Ebsco Database. Other databases can be located on our Database page. [Note: You must click on the FIND button to submit your search.]

Crime and Criminal Justice

• Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
• FBI Uniform Crime Reports
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service - Has an Abstracts Database with "summaries of the more than 200,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources."
• National Institute of Justice
• New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
• U.S. Department of Justice Statistics - Includes the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

Police and Law Enforcement

• Directory of New York State Criminal Justice Agencies
• Federal Bureau of Investigation
• National Institute of Justice
• Police Chief Magazine
• U.S. Department of Justice

Courts

• Cornell Legal Information Institute - Provides Historic Supreme Court Decisions - by Party Name and a Supreme Court Collection.
• Federal Judiciary
• FedWorld Supreme Court Decisions - 7,407 full-text decisions from volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports issued between 1937 and 1975.
• FindLaw: Supreme Court Decisions - Searchable database of decisions since 1893.
• Landmark Cases of the Supreme Court
• National Center for State Courts - Has links to State Court Web Sites
• New York State Court of Appeals
• New York State Unified Court System
• Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Media
• Supreme Court Decisions (1937-1975) - GPO Access
• Supreme Court of the United States - Official page

Corrections

• Federal Bureau of Prisons - Has an Inmate Locator, a Facilities Locator a Directory and a Weekly Population Report
• New York State Commission of Correction
• New York State Department of Correctional Services - Has a Facility Listing and an Inmate Lookup.
• Sentencing Project

Last update: Monday, August 24, 2009