"The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed the boundaries of our criminal legal system, testing the entrenchment of patterns in incarceration, policing, and surveillance. During a time in which new concerns arose about racial injustice and mass incarceration, prompting searching scrutiny, this pandemic created opportunities to rethink old ways of handling criminal cases. We thank our authors and their respective centers for contributing to—and the University of Chicago Law Review Online for hosting—this symposium, which explores both sides of the pandemic: the crisis itself and its potential to transform criminal justice."

Note: The Proxy Bookmarklet will be going away due to the slow migration over the Spring, 2023 term to an authentication method called Open Athens (more info)
Have you ever found something on the Web that you knew was available through the Libraries, but it was too much of a pain to log into the Libraries site and find it? Now we have a bookmarklet that you can add to your browser button bar so that you can log in via the Libraries and get immediate access (most of the time…) find out more about our new proxy bookmarklet. And it works with tablets too...
Note: after you log in, if you don't get access, just click the proxy bookmarklet again and you will (if your browser is idle for too long you may need to log in again). Also provides information on newish library service LibKey Nomad which can also be used to provide instant access to PDFs available though the WSU Libraries.

Criminal Justice/Criminology books are scattered around the Library of Congress classification system (i.e. sociology or psychology), but subclasses HM through HX cover a significant part of this. Criminal Justice/Criminology starts at HV 6001. Because criminal justice/criminology is so interdisciplinary, you may find appropriate boos in the Library of Congress classifications Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, etc.

Search It is the Libraries catalog - you can use it to find books, articles, media materials, and more. You can order books from other WSU libraries around the state. The Summit system lets you order books from 37 academic libraries in Washington and Oregon, as well as the University of Idaho.

WorldCat Discovery provides access to books not available through the WSU Libraries or through Summit (you can also use it directly from within the WSU Search It library catalog). Once found, titles can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan through the WorldCat Discovery interface.

Just one for now, but its a great one! Use it to get to books, music, and video - and archived web sites going back to the dawn of the Web via the WayBack Machine.

Academic libraries version of Google Books - "...is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world." Be Sure To Log In with Your WSU credentials
Has a lot of missing metadata/bibliographical data

Google Books is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and stored in its digital database. Some magazines too. No access to fulltext in-copyright material.

Explore a wide range of journals, ebooks, and research reports in the field of security studies. This content looks at security studies through a broad lens, encompassing research on international security and peace and conflict studies from all corners of the globe. "

Includes abstracts and some fulltext of publications from government agencies, think tanks and research institutes, and trade and professional publications since 1970. Lots of practitioner content (i.e. for police officers). Look here for a list of Controlled Vocabulary used in the database that may help with searches.
Since 2014 or so it mostly indexes government publications, but everything pre-2014 is still there.

Citations with abstracts to articles on all aspects of sociology, social work, and other social sciences since 1963. Updated 6 times a year

Indexes articles, interviews, obituaries, biographies, and book reviews in English language periodicals. Covers anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology, and sociology. 1984 to the present;updated monthly. See Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective for older articles.

"CrimRxiv is criminology's open archive: a place to find and provide free information, knowledge, and understanding." Make sure you focus on postprints - these have gone through peer review (preprints have not yet) - look for the Show Details link in the upper right of the screen.

An index with summaries of citations to articles in over 1,300 psychology research journals. Articles date from 1806 - present. Note: There are less than 146 records with publication dates prior to 1890. Updated weekly

Accessed through the Web of Science database; See also Google Scholar and Google Scholar Citations. More information on citation searching can be found on the Measuring Research Impact Using Web of Science, Altmetrics, and Other Sources library guide.
Master Journal List

Provides access to full text legal resources (law reviews, legal magazines, cases) Also has news and business articles.

The Annual Review of Criminology is a new additon to the Annual Review series. Its subject matter is also covered in Sociology, Political Science and Law, and others. See also the print publication Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research (some volumes are available online through Jstor)
and the online journal Perspectives in Psychological Science
What's an Annual Review?

"Containing full text for more than 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals, this database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world." See Also: Nexis Uni.

"Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites."

"The HSDL is the nation's premier collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. It supports local, state and federal analysis and decision-making needs and assists academics of all disciplines in homeland defense and security related research. The HSDL provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and research reports from various universities and local and state agencies."

Provides access to publications by and about the U.S. Congress, including hearings, bill texts, legislative histories, voting records, congressional calendars, hot topics and more. Updated daily and contains some fulltext. Dates of Coverage: 1969 - present

This resource contains the full text of Elsevier science journals with over 650 journals avilable in full text from 1995 to the present. This includes almost 300 title available at WSU in electronic form only.

Free public access to digital documents of the federal executive, legislative, and judicial branches. This is (usually but not always) the best place to start your research.

"...a continuously-updated database of thousands of citations of works using data held in the ICPSR archive. The works include journal articles, books, book chapters, government and agency reports, working papers, dissertations, conference papers, meeting presentations, unpublished manuscripts, magazine and newspaper articles, and audiovisual materials."

"Welcome to the Justice Today podcast, where we explore cutting edge research and practices and offer an in-depth look at what we’re doing to meet the biggest public safety challenges of our time. Join us as we explore how funding, science and technology impact public safety and justice in today’s complex environment."

lots of intersections between criminal justice /criminology and computer science and other technological disciplines!

*Really good* survey data
They look at a lot of topics!

Great source for academic and legal articles - make sure you set it up to work with WSU Libraries Find It system.

Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines and is usually full-text. Note: In most cases, JSTOR will not provide the most recent three to five years of journal content, but it will provide access back to the start of publication.

The Annual Review of Criminology is a new additon to the Annual Review series. Its subject matter is also covered in Sociology, Political Science and Law, and others. See also the print publication Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research (some volumes are available online through Jstor)
and the online journal Perspectives in Psychological Science
What's an Annual Review?

Citations for U.S. (and some Canadian) dissertations 1861- present. Includes abstracts for dissertations published from 1980-present (some recent dissertations offer a 24-page preview). Also includes citations and abstracts for master's theses from 1988-present. See also the Dissertations and Theses @ WSU database, which provides fulltext access for recent WSU dissertations. WSU dissertations and (some) theses can also be found on the WSU institutional repository, Research Exchange..

Multidisciplinary index of scholarly articles from over 12,000 journals going back to 1990. Great coverage, but no abstracts.

Multidisciplinary database that includes considerable full-text.

Citations and abstracts to publications on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes journals, books, reviews, and dissertations. Covers 1964-present.

Citations and abstracts to publications covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.

"Microsoft Academic (MA) employs advances in machine learning, semantic inference and knowledge discovery to help you explore scholarly information in more powerful ways than ever before."

link goes to topics but be sure to go to the home page and look around other links, etc.

"...a continuously-updated database of thousands of citations of works using data held in the ICPSR archive. The works include journal articles, books, book chapters, government and agency reports, working papers, dissertations, conference papers, meeting presentations, unpublished manuscripts, magazine and newspaper articles, and audiovisual materials."

"This is a bibliography of publications that use data from the Roper Center. Some cite information on overall responses obtained from iPOLL; some are based on individual-level analyses of datasets held by the Roper Center, and others use our Presidential approval series or other indexes constructed from Roper Center data." Research articles only.
Note: We no longer have access to the Roper Center or its iPoll database, but this bibliography is still useful.

Reference resources (encyclopedias, handbooks, and more). Good for social science. Includes reference works on research methods.

Fulltext and searchable content from reference books published by Gale.

Includes links to streaming media databases including Academic Video Online (AVON) and Kanopy.

Filmakers Library Online provides documentaries for streaming video use across the university's curriculum. There are 1,018 titles covering all academic areas. Particular strengths include history, health, and social science topics. You can create short clips.

Use this to find DVDs, CDs, and other kinds of media available for check-out from the WSU Libraries. Hint: in a simple search after you do your search you can filter by the Video and/or Audio "Type" options. In Advanced Search you can pre-filter by Material Type - options include Audio, Video for physical items, i.e. DVDs, and "eAudio and eVideo" for streaming video, music, and audiobooks.