Finding Law Reviews
What is a Law Review?
"A law review is a professional legal publication produced and edited by law students. Most articles are devoted to exclusively legal topics, although law reviews often publish articles on interrelated topics of more general legal concern, ranging from economics and finance to psychology and urban policy. Law reviews remain, however, technical legal journals with a focus on legal reasoning. "
from: Virginia Law Review web site
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Law Reviews
(in LexisNexis® Academic - info)
Multidisciplinary Databases
Academic Search Premier - info
A
general database that indexes articles in academic journals, newspapers
and magazines covering nearly all academic disciplines.
ProQuest Research Library - info
A
database with both popular and scholarly materials that span the
academic disciplines. Some materials are full-text within this
database, and some are not.
Searchable Databases
Use the following databases to search for research papers in many forms: journal articles, book chapters, government reports, conference proceedings, etc.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) - info
This database is produced and maintained by the U.S. government
offering information on most aspects of criminal justice. The database
contains over 195,000 searchable resources, including “statistics,
research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing
transcripts, and training materials.” Search for your topic in the
upper-right hand corner, or browse topics on the left-hand panel.
Default settings search across government organizations: Office of
Justice Programs (OJP), Office on Violence Against Women (OVW),
National Institute of Corrections (NIC), Office of Community Oriented
Policing Services (COPS).
SocINDEX with Full Text - info
A subject-specific sociology database with extensive coverage of many important journals published in the field. Notice that you can limit to Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed, before you search.
Annual Reviews - info
This database offers fully searchable and browsable titles published
under the Annual Reviews. The chapters within these volumes offer
overviews of academic research within a given field, and so are
appropriate and often ideal for background reading. They don't publish
a specific Criminal Justice volume, but volumes in Sociology,
Psychology, and Law and Social Science may prove to be useful.
Philosopher's Index - info
This international resource provides
indexing and author-written abstracts from books and journals of philosophy
(over 480) in the 15 fields of philosophy and in related fields. Coverage
includes the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political
philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the
philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
JSTOR - info
This database offers full-text journal articles in just about any
discipline, although no current issues are available in Jstor (most
journals’ most recent issue is from 3-4 years ago). Over 30 journals
from the discipline of Sociology are included, many of which will be
relevant to the field of Criminal Justice, and all journals within
Jstor are scholarly.
*FREELY AVAILABLE THROUGH THE WEB - THIS DATABASE DOES NOT REQUIRE AN SJU LOGIN
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English Language and Literature, Sociology, Training and Organizational Development
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