Scholarly Articles - CRJ 331 | Criminology - LibGuides at Lebanon Valley College

Is it Scholarly?

Unsure what a scholarly journal article looks like? This Interactive tutorial identifies sections that should appear in a scholarly journal article.

Where Should I Begin?

Use the database links below to locate scholarly journal article citations on your topic.

It is also wise to search the singular and plural of your topicas well as variant word endings: "murder OR murders OR murderers OR murderer."

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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Access to criminal justice and criminology journal and magazine articles.
Covers all related subjects, including forensic sciences, corrections, policing, criminal law and investigation.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides access to social sciences full-text articles and citations/abstracts.
Subjects covered include: anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology, sociology.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Ultimate is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text databases, providing access to full-text scholarly journals and magazines. To ensure that you're searching for scholarly journals only, after you run your search, off to the left, limit it to source type: academic OR to scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service This link opens in a new window
Provides crime, justice and substance abuse information. Click on the + sign to show the search box.
Topics covered include corrections, courts, crime, crime prevention, drugs, justice system, juvenile justice, law enforcement and victims.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Largest psychological journal article database. Covers the contents of over 2,000 journal titles as well as book chapters in behavioral science and mental health.
Covers the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and more. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from around 2,200 periodicals in dozens of languages.