Kibbee Library: Prof. Doreen Bowens Eng 24: Databases

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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Academic journals and periodicals covering criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Indexing back to 1983 and full text from 1995. Subject coverage includes addiction studies, anthropology. communications, criminal justice, economics, environmental studies, ethics, geography, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, political science, psychiatry and psychology, social work and sociology, and urban studies.
SocINDEX Full Text This link opens in a new window
Full text articles from journals, many going back as far as 1908. Includes a comprehensive coverage of sociology and all sub-disciplines and related areas of study such as abortion, criminal justice, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, substance abuse and other addictions, and violence.

American History Online
Includes biographies, topic overviews, primary sources, timelines, images, videos, maps, and charts covering more than 500 years of American political, military, social, and cultural history.
GunPolicy.org
With more than 200,000 pages of news, data and comparative charts, and visited by a million uniquely identifiable users per year, GunPolicy.org is the world's most comprehensive and accessible Web source for published evidence on armed violence, firearm law and gun control.
Violence Policy Center
The Violence Policy Center (VPC) works to stop gun death and injury through research, education, advocacy, and collaboration. Founded in 1988 by Executive Director Josh Sugarmann, a native of Newtown, Connecticut, the VPC informs the public about the impact of gun violence on their daily lives, exposes the profit-driven marketing and lobbying activities of the firearms industry and gun lobby, offers unique technical expertise to policymakers, organizations, and advocates on the federal, state, and local levels, and works for policy changes that save lives.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a searchable database of scholarly articles. Use it to find articles that are available through the Kingsborough library.