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Off campus access to electronic databases will prompt you to login with your EUID and Eaglemail password as these are databases UNT subscribes to. Many will enable you to limit to "Full text" articles in our collection. (Tips and Tricks)
Top 5 Databases:
Academic Search Complete is a scholarly collection providing full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc. Full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, coverage dating back to 1975. EBSCOhost database by way of TexShare.
The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of over 174,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. The NCJRS Abstracts Database excludes most legal decisions, opinions, and statutes. The collection has been developed to meet the needs of criminal justice professionals, researchers, policymakers, and technical and legal experts
Subjects Covered: Business Administration, Business Law, Criminal Justice, Economics, Finance, Insurance, Journalism, Law, Management, Marketing, Merchandising and Hospitality Management, Multidisciplinary, Political Science, Public Administration, Real Estate, University Courses Help Links: LexisNexis Academic Guide
Criminal Justice Abstracts via CSA
Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice. Criminal Justice abstracts provides coverage of over 500 journals published in several different languages
Crime in the United States provides a nationwide view of crime based on statistics contributed by state and local law enforcement agencies. Includes national & state crime index, uniform crime reporting program data, crime trends and factors.
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Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (Source Book of Criminal Justice Statistics) is a Bureau of Justice Statistics publication that compiles data from over a hundred sources, from the national to the local level. Contents include: characteristics of the criminal justice system; public attitudes toward crime topics; nature and distribution of known offenses; characteristics and distribution of persons arrested; judicial processing of defendants; and persons under correctional supervision.
