Electronic Resources:
Criminal Justice and Social Work

Resource Name	Source	Description
Bureau of Justice Statistics U.S. Deparatment of Justice		United States primary source for government statistics.
Criminal Justice Abstracts	SilverPlatter	Provides comprehensive indexing to the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and access to governmental and nongovernmental reports.
Expanded Academic ASAP	InfoTrac SearchBank	Provides indexing for recently published popular magazines and scholarly journals. Topics include astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, and the general sciences. Selected full-text articles. 1995 - present with access to backfile (1980-1994). Updated weekly.
IndexLegalPer (Index to Legal Periodicals and Books)	FirstSearch	Provides indexing to 620 legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Includes all areas of jurisprudence including criminal law and court decisions.
Law		Some of the most useful web sites for information on the law.
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)	FirstSearch	articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Covers from 1972 to the present with abstracts for most records from 1985. Updated monthly.
PsycFIRST	FirstSearch	More than 1,300 journals on psychology and related fields. Coverage is current year plus the most recent three years. Updated monthly.
Psychology full-text journals	IDEAL (Academic Press) Journals	Under "Major Subject Category", click on Psychology. Includes full-text of journal articles. The Adobe Acrobat reader, which can be downloaded without charge, is required to view and display journal articles.
PsycLIT	McConnell LAN	More than 1,300 journals on psychology and related fields. Coverage is 1887 to date.
Social Sciences full-text journals	IDEAL (Academic Press) Journals	Under "Major Subject Category", click on Social Sciences. Includes full-text of journal articles. The Adobe Acrobat reader, which can be downloaded without charge, is required to view and display journal articles.
Social Work Abstracts	SilverPlatter	Provides indexing to social work journals and other related journals. Topics covered include homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization and more.
SocioAbs (Sociological Abstracts)	FirstSearch	Covers 250 English language publications in sociology, social work, and social science journals. Topics include abuse, neglect, violence, aging, criminology, crisis intervention, demography, race relations, and urban studies. 1963 - present. Updated six times per year.
Sociofile	SilverPlatter	Provides indexing to 2000 journals in 30 languages from 55 countries. Includes journals on criminology, law, penology, social psychology, and violence. 1974 - present.
SocSciAbs (Social Science Abstracts)	FirstSearch	Provides indexing to over 400 English-language periodicals in the social sciences. Covers anthropology, economics, environmental sciences, geography, law and criminology, planning and public administration and political science.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics		This annual report presents criminal justice data from over 100 sources; includes more than 600 tables, figures, a subject index and annotated bibliography.
American Society of Criminology		Brings together in one multidisciplinary society persons actively engaged in research, teaching, and/or practice in the field of criminology.
Federal Bureau of Investigation		Provides crime statistics from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports and other reports.
Additional CD-ROM resources on criminal justice and law are available in the McConnell Library reference area.

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