Criminal Justice Subject Resources

Credo Reference: An excellent full-text integrated reference database. Contains linked searching to other resources and visual concept mapping. The BEST place to start!
ProQuest Central: Our largest comprehensive database, with many journals in full-text, now in a new improved interface.
- Guided subject searching for better results, just click the picture for Social Sciences!
- Or, search the entire interface, including ebooks
- Combine terms using AND, OR and NOT EX: "juvenile and justice" will return results with both terms, "juvenile or adolescent" will look for both terms. "Juvenile not drugs" will get rid of anything about drugs.
- Clickable boxes for peer-reviewed and full-text content
- Easily save, print, or email marked records and create citations for your bibliography.
- Use our interlibrary loan form to order articles that are not full-text
Academic Search Elite: A large multi-disciplinary database with some education coverage.
- Many journals in full-text, now in a new improved interface.
- Guided subject searching and easy clickable buttons for narrowing or widening your search.

CQ Researcher: A source full of current events, with original reporting on events shaping our world.
- Search chronologically or by topic for full developed, comprehensive reports on a variety of subject areas.
Lexis/Nexis: Academic Universe includes business, legal and medical journals as well as major newspapers from around the world.
- All content is full-text, but may not be scholarly!
- Contains legal information searchable by topic, court, year, or case
Forensic Science: An electronic reference work from Salem Press devoted to criminal justice and forensic science. Full-text and scholarly.

Use the Quest and Mobius catalogs
- Quest catalog includes CMU, Mo Valley, UCM and State Fair
- Items from Quest usually arrive in 2-3 days and check out for 1 month.
- MOBIUS catalog is state wide; items requested arrive in 5-7 days and check out for 3 weeks.
- Request items from off-campus using your name and student ID number.

Stuck? Ask a librarian!