Research Guides: CJ 3300: Victimology: Home

Getting Started

Welcome to the CJ 3300 research guide!

This guide provides links to the most useful search strategies, databases, websites, and other resources for the major themes in your class. This guide will help you:

Save time and reduce stress – The library has hundreds of thousands of print and electronic resources. A research guide brings together all of the best relevant, appropriate, and subject-specific content in one place.
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Suggest search terms – Choosing your search terms is one most important steps in your research process. This guide provides suggested search terms to help you create effective searches.
Databases – List of pertinent Criminal Justice databases.
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Most Used Resources

OneSearch [EBSCO]

Partially peer reviewed. Some full-text content. Videos. Audio Recordings.
OneSearch is the default search on the Fulton Library’s homepage. Includes the library’s books and videos, articles from many library databases, and more.
SocINDEX [EBSCO]

Partially peer reviewed. Some full-text content.
Dedicated to sociology research and related topics, including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, religion, racial studies, and social work. Contains journals and abstracts.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts [United States DOJ]
Partially peer reviewed. No full-text content. Open access.
Focuses on the field of criminal justice, including corrections, courts, crime, law enforcement, and more. Contains summaries of federal, state, and local government reports, as well as articles, books, research reports, and unpublished research.
ScienceDirect Journals [Elsevier]

Peer reviewed. Some full-text content.
Focuses on the life sciences, physical sciences, medical sciences, and technology, with access to scientific, technical, and medical research. Includes journal articles, book chapters, and publications.
APA PsycArticles [EBSCO]

Peer reviewed. Full-text content.
Covers the field of psychology, with topics relating to mental illness, psychological treatment, counseling, developmental psychology, and educational psychology. Includes access to APA journal within these subjects.
APA PsycInfo [EBSCO]

Partially peer reviewed. Some full-text content.
This database focuses on psychology and explores topics like psychiatry, pharmacology, linguistics, treatments, counseling, addiction, and more. Contains APA journals and articles
Diversity Studies [Gale]

Partially peer reviewed. Some full-text content.
Explores cultural differences, cultural contributions, and cultural influences in the global community. Offers access to millions of journal articles.

Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice
Journal of Victimology and Victim Justice, a peer-reviewed journal, focuses on both critical leadership and practical development representing victimological perspectives from a broad range of disciplines and contribute to a greater understanding of victims, victimization, victim-offender relations, institutional functioning, and allied issues.
Victims & Offenders
Victims & Offenders is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an interdisciplinary and international forum for the dissemination of new research, policies, and practices related to both victimization and offending throughout the life course.

Search for Articles

The articles tab on the library's homepage The best place to start most searches is the search box on the library's homepage. This search box defaults to Articles, giving you quick access to popular and scholarly articles from thousands of different publications.