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Criminal Justice Resources

A research guide to support ESU students and faculty in Criminal Justice.

SOCJ 475 Ethics in Criminal Justice

Learn more about hot-button topics in the library database CQ Researcher.

Search by keyword or browse by topic to find reports:

CQ Researcher "Guns on Campus" Report

Scroll down to the Chronology (i.e. timeline that refers laws and court cases):

CQ Researcher Guns on Campus Chronology

Find books, news articles and reports in the Bibliography section:

CQ Researcher Guns on Campus Bibliography

Criminal Justice Abstracts is a library database where you can find scholarly (peer-reviewed) journal articles on criminal justice topics.

Use the Advanced Search for multiple search boxes.

Separate different keyword concepts in search boxes. Example:

Criminal Justice Abstracts Search Boxes

Then narrow your results using the Refine Results column.

Narrow by: Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Articles, Publication Date, and select Academic Journals.

Criminal Justice Abstracts Refine Results column

Nexis Uni is a library database where you can find law reviews & journals, news articles, court cases, statutes & legislation and more!

Use the Guided Search for Law Reviews, News, and Court Cases:

Nexis Uni Guided Search for Law Reviews

Narrow your results by publication date.

Example: I limited my search to law review articles published since 2017.

Use the Search With Results box to further focus on your topic.

Example: To find the articles that mention the Texas law, I searched SB 11. 

Narrow your results options      Narrow Your Nexis Uni Results

These two options narrowed my search results from 10,000+ to 170!

 

Do not trust citation generators like Citation Machine

 

 

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