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  • Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
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    This resource contains records from leading sources in the fields of criminal justice and criminology, offering more than 320 full-text magazines and journals, more than 520,000 records, and coverage of more than 600 journals from around the world. Content also includes subjects such as forensic sciences, substance abuse and addiction, and probation and parole.

  • Criminal Justice Database
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    Over 100 U.S. and international criminal justice journals.

  • Open Society Justice Initiative
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    This database of documents from the Open Society Justice Initiative, contains reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of national and international human rights and justice.

  • Westlaw Campus Research (TR)
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    Access full-text legal resources including federal and state statutes and cases, federal regulations, law reviews, news, and several business resources with one search.

  • Academic Search Premier
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    Articles with information in the areas of social sciences, humanities, science, education, and others in over 7,962 journals. 

  • Civil Rights and Social Justice
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    Research the history of Civil Rights in the U.S. through Congressional hearings and committee prints, legislative histories of important legislation, CRS and GAO reports, Supreme Court case briefs, publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, and other resources including scholarly journals, a book list, and links to Civil Rights organizations.

  • CQ Researcher
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    In-depth reports on current and controversial issues. To learn how to search this resource, refer to the How  to  search  CQ  Researcher tutorial on the video tutorials libguide.

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