Criminology databases

ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)

  • Worldwide English language coverage of journal articles, conference papers and book reviews in the fields of applied social sciences and health.
  • Provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

Blackstone’s Police Manuals

  • Offers in depth, cross-referenced information on all subject areas required for police examinations.
  • Topics covered include Crime, Evidence and Procedure, and Road Policing, as well as consolidated tables of cases and statutes.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)

  • Off-air recording and media archive service.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Brill Journal Archive

  • Provides access to over 50,000 articles to more than 80 journals published by Brill before 2000.
  • Included in the main library search.

British Humanities Index

  • An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts.
  • This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.

Business Source Ultimate

  • UK and international business, management and economics issues across a range of sectors including construction, IT, education, and health.
  • Included in the main library search.

Cambridge Journals Online

  • Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
  • Included in the main library search.

Crime and Deviance Channel

  • Includes texts, PowerPoints, audio and video aimed at criminology and sociology students researching the theories and methods surrounding crime and deviance and subjects such as power and control, social distribution and globalisation.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Data Archive

  • Provides access to over 5,000 computer-readable datasets for research and teaching purposes for many different disciplines in the UK.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)

  • The Directory of Open Access Journals is a list of freely-available, full-text, quality-controlled, scientific and scholarly journals.
  • Included in the main library search.
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EThOS

  • British Library database of full-text UK Higher education research theses.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)

  • Focuses mainly on politics, sociology, economics and anthropology and is one of the world's largest social-science databases.
Journals

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text

  • A bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books published or edited in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Journals

JSTOR

  • UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
  • A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database

  • The NCJRS is published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
  • An information clearinghouse for people in US and around the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.
  • Included in the main library search.
Journals Current awareness

Nexis

  • Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
  • Includes access to the Financial Times.
  • Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
  • NOT included in the main library search.
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Overton

  • A searchable index of policy documents, guidelines, think tank publications and working papers.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Oxford Handbooks Online - Criminology and Criminal Justice

  • This is a collection of eBooks representing Criminology and Criminal Justice's principal subfields.
  • Included in the main library search.

Police Professional

  • Monthly online journal for UK law enforcement, sharing guidance and practice.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Policing Insight

  • The very latest thinking in progressive policing with expert articles from government, policing professionals, and academia.
  • NOT included in the main library search.
Journals

ProQuest Criminal Justice

  • U.S. and international criminal justice journals including abstracts and indexing for 250 titles.
  • Included in the main library search.

ProQuest Sociology

  • International literature of sociology and social work.
  • Coverage: social work, social services, community and mental health, and crisis intervention.
  • Included in the main library search.
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PsycBooks (APA PsycBooks)

  • A crucial research tool for the behavioural sciences.
  • Access to 3,733 scholarly titles within psychology and its sub-fields.

PsycInfo (APA PsycInfo)

  • Comprehensive international bibliographic database of psychology.
  • Material from more than 2,450 periodicals from more than 49 countries.
  • Includes nursing, psychology, medicine, sociology, pharmacology, physiology and linguistics.

SAGE Journals Online

  • Provides full-text access to the journals published by Sage to which UWE Bristol subscribes.
  • Included in the main library search.
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SAGE Research Methods

  • A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
  • SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
  • Included in the main library search.

Scopus

  • The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
  • Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
  • Included in the main library search.

Social Policy and Practice

  • Social Policy and Practice brings together data from five databases covering Behavioural & Social Sciences, Social Work and Public Health.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Social Services Abstracts

  • Bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Sociological Abstracts

  • Indexes journal articles and conference proceedings from over 1,500 journals in the field of sociology and related disciplines.

SpringerLink

  • A collection of full-text journals covering subject areas such as biological sciences, computing, engineering and environment, humanities, mathematics and statistics, medicine and health, physical sciences and chemistry.
  • Includes a number of e-books on business, law, and computer science, as well as Lecture Notes in Computer Science for the last three years.
  • Included in the main library search.

Taylor & Francis

  • Provides access to over 2,500 full-text journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
  • Included in the main library search.
Legislation Cases Journals Commentary Forms International Current awareness

Westlaw Edge UK

  • Used extensively in legal practice, providing full-text access to current and historic UK, European Union and worldwide case reports and legislation.
  • Includes access to the Legal Journals Index, some full text law journals, and many law electronic books.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Wiley Online Library

  • Provides access to over 200 full text electronic journals published by Wiley.
  • Covers a wide range of topic areas such as business, engineering medicine, science and psychology.
  • Included in the main library search.

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