Research Guides: American Criminal Courts & the Judicial Process: Articles

Legal Database

Our only legal database is Lexis Uni.

Nexis Uni
Access about 15,000 business, legal, and news sources, including federal and state court cases, full-text articles from more than 800 law reviews and journals, company and industry information, SEC reports, articles from more than 2,500 newspapers, federal regulatory content, and new international news sources. Users now have the option to self-register for a more personalized research experience, including creating and sharing folders for group research projects and study groups.
LexisNexis includes top-tier news publications such as The New York Times® and The Washington Post® and local, national, and international sources.
HeinOnline
HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more. With more historical content than any other database, HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world.

Google Scholar

General Search Tips

Use Boolean Operators (AND/OR/NOT) to broaden or narrow your search.

AND - will narrow a search. All search terms must appear in a record

OR - will broaden a search. Either or both terms may appear

NOT - will narrow a search. The term following “not” won’t appear in a record.

Other search tips:

Use quotes “ “ to keep 2 or more words together as a phrase (“global warming”)
Use the asterisk * to find alternate endings to words (child* would retrieve child, children, children’s, childhood, etc.)
Put synonyms/similar words in parentheses, and link together with the word ‘or.’ (teen or youth or adolescent or juvenile)

Recommended Databases

Library databases have access to articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers. Every database has different content. This makes it important to use a database that has content on the subject you are researching. In addition, be sure to search in more than one database to find information.

Check out these recommended databases to get started:

Academic Search Premier
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 4,770 full-text journals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals.
This multi-disciplinary database offers an enormous collection of the most valuable full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. It includes more than 13,780 indexed and abstracted journals and provides full-text for 4,770 journals, including full-text for 4,000 peer-reviewed titles. You will find PDF backfiles to 1975 or further as well as searchable cited references for more than 1,050 journals. This database is an excellent source of peer-reviewed, full-text for STEM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Criminal Justice Periodicals (ProQuest)
This database supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends; includes U.S. and international scholarly journals, correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other relevant material.
The database includes abstract and indexing for 250 titles, with more than 100 available in full-text.
Nexis Uni
Access about 15,000 business, legal, and news sources, including federal and state court cases, full-text articles from more than 800 law reviews and journals, company and industry information, SEC reports, articles from more than 2,500 newspapers, federal regulatory content, and new international news sources. Users now have the option to self-register for a more personalized research experience, including creating and sharing folders for group research projects and study groups.
LexisNexis includes top-tier news publications such as The New York Times® and The Washington Post® and local, national, and international sources.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Full-text scholarly journals in sociology and related areas of study. These include criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, social development, social psychology, social work, and socio-cultural anthropology.
In addition to the full-text journals included in the database, extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, periodicals and other non-periodical content sources is also included.

More criminal justice databases