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SOC4095 Ethics in Criminal Justice 

This Toolkit pulls from a variety of disciplines -- criminal justice, sociology, philosophy and law -- to provide you with resources for probing questions of ethics in criminal justice.
Last update: Oct 19th, 2009 URL: http://librarytoolkits.sju.edu/ethicsincriminaljustice  Print Guide  RSS Updates

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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)

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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.

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