Mouse over the databases to get a description of each.

Criminal Justice Abstracts
(Milne Indexes & Abstracts Lower Level - HV 6001 C67)

Provides citations and summaries for articles in more than 400 journals. General topics include crime prevention, victims of crime, juvenile justice and delinquency, and courts and the legal process.

Coverage:

1970 to the present.

Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice

Joshua Dressler, Ed. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002. 1780 pp. 4 vols.

Coverage:

Covers legal, sociological, psychological, historical, and economic aspects of crime and justice worldwide.

Sociological Periodicals

A current list of sociological journal titles held by/accessed through Milne Library.

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Statistics about crimes and victims, criminal offenders, law enforcement, courts and sentencing, and corrections.

Coverage:

Uniform Crime Reports

Annual compilation of crime statistics for the United States, mostly in tabular and chart form. Categories include: type of crime, age, sex, race, region, state, county, city, and others.

Coverage:

Includes data from 1995 - present.

Academic Search Complete

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Contains full text for more than half the journals covered.

Coverage:

Indexing for over 10,000 publications, with full text for more than 6,100. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

ArticleFirst

Indexes 12,500 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.

Coverage:

1990 to the present.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
On-campus users will see additional links to ”Full Text” and ”IDS (ILL)” which will lead to resources available from Milne Library. To have these links available off campus, use ”Scholar Preferences” to set ”SUNY Geneseo” as the ”Library Link.”

Coverage:

JSTOR

JSTOR, a multidisciplinary database, provides the full text of many scholarly journals in the humanities, sciences and social sciences back to their beginning.

Coverage:

Full text beginning as far back as 1665.

ProQuest

A recommended multidisciplinary resource to begin your research in all subject areas. Abstracts and full text for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

Coverage:

Includes ABI/INFORM Global, American Medical Association, Platinum Periodicals, ProQuest Education Journals, ProQuest Health Management, ProQuest Psychology Journals, ProQuest Social Science Journals, and ProQuest Reference & Research Library.

Scopus

Scopus is an extensive database for scholarly journal articles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields.

Coverage:

Scopus covers titles continuously from 1996 onwards, including citation data. Some content is available back into the 1960s. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database. It covers:

• Life Sciences >3,400 titles
• Health Sciences > 5,300 titles (including 100% coverage of Medline titles)
• Physical Sciences > 5,500 titles
• Social Sciences > 2,850 titles