Criminology

Faculty Information Adviser: Alison Chojna

email : LLRahs@lsbu.ac.uk

Information Skills Advisers for student enquiries:
Ros Smith 020 7815 6697
Brenda Spooner 020 7815 6635
email : LLRahs@lsbu.ac.uk

Core E-resources

ASSIA [electronic resource].
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts). Covers English language journals in applied social sciences. Includes health, economics, social issues & social policy, organisational behaviour and communication.

IBSS [electronic resource].
Updated weekly, with data going back to 1951. IBSS Online (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) contains references to over 2400 selected journals and 7000 books per year.

ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK), Arts and Humanities Citation Index, BIDS-ISI [electronic resource].
References,citations, selected abstracts. Includes Science Citation Index expanded, Social Science Index and Arts & Humanities Index from 1981 to the present. Covers over 9000 scholarly research journals and is updated weekly. Includes:
SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDEX:
Reference and some abstracts to all aspects of scholarly research in the social sciences from 1981.

Psycinfo [electronic resource].
Via EBSCOhost databases. From 1974. Includes details of articles with abstracts from over 1300 psychology journals, from 1974.

Sage Journals Online (Sage Premier) [electronic resource].
SAGE Journals Online is the delivery platform that provides online access to the full text of individual SAGE journals. The SAGE Full-Text Collections, SAGE's award-winning, discipline-specific research databases, are also available on SAGE Journals Online.

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Additional E-resources

LexisLibrary [electronic resource].
UK Cases (including the All England Reports), UK Journals and Newspapers.
International Legal Materials includes access to an extensive collection of US law journals.

ScienceDirect (Science Direct) [electronic resource].
Database containing over 1000 full text journals from Elsevier Science and the leading scientific, technical and medical publishers. Covers life, physical, technical and social sciences.

Westlaw [electronic resource].
Access to the full text of cases and legislation for UK materials, some EU and International documentation plus considerable US resources. It incorporates the Legal Journals Index and the Case and Legislation Citators.

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Journal Collections and Newspapers

Academic Onefile [electronic resource].
Academic OneFile is the premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

IngentaConnect [electronic resource].
IngentaConnect offers access to article summaries of over 2500 publications, along with the full text of over 4500 publications from 150 publishers (including: Academic Press, Arnold, Blackwell Science, Blackwell Publishers,Elsevier, Gordon and Breach, Harwood Academic, Portland Press, Professional Engineering Publishing and White Horse Press).

ProQuest Newspapers, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, Times [electronic resource].
Updated daily. Database of the Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday; Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph; Evening Standard; Financial Times; Guardian & Observer; Times and Sunday Times; Independent. Coverage is from at least January 1998 onwards for all titles.

 

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Selected Websites for this area.

American Society of Criminology
International organization concerned with criminology

Amnesty International
News and reports plus links to some full text documents.

British Society of Criminology
The leading British society with links to other important web sites.

Criminal Justice System
Procedures are explained in the Citizens Area. Go to Working With CJS for details of each relevant government department. (Achived material)

Criminal Records Bureau
Disclosure service handling sensitive information. Publications available.

Crimlinks
Latest news updates, reports and statistics on various areas of research.

Critical Criminology
A specialist division of the American Society of Criminology.

Foreign Office – Drugs and Crime
Information on international organized crime.

Home Office
Search by types of crime. Go to home page for all publications.

Human Rights Watch
Worldwide news with some full text reports.

Howard League for Penal Reform
Information on reform of the penal system.

Institute for Criminal Policy Research
Provided information for managers, practitioners and politicians. Details of research and publications.

Interights
International centre for the legal protection of human rights. Contains 2 case law databases.

Justice

Access to all UK government departments, organisations and topics related to crime and justice.

Social Exclusion Unit
Part of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, this unit looks at the issues behind the causes of crime.

Statewatch
Monitors civil liberties in the EU. Gives details of publications and activities.

United Nations Interregional Crime & Justice Research Institute
Supports policies and prevention of juvenile delinquency and adult criminality.

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