Research Guides: Criminology: Getting Started: Articles and Books

Finding scholarly articles

Need to find scholarly or peer-reviewed articles? Try searching in one of these "best bet" databases.

Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This bibliographic database provides records selected from the most notable sources in the criminal justice field. It covers journals from around the world, reflecting the increasing globalization of criminology studies.

All Criminology Databases
A list of all of the library databases that contain useful information about criminology.

Books and e-books

Need an overview of a topic, or a lot of information about something specific? Need to use sources other than scholarly articles? Here's a link to our Criminology books and e-books:

Criminology books and e-books
This link will take you to a Seeker search of the library's books and e-books on Criminology topics.
Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory