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Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCOhost) (1910+) This link opens in a new windowCriminal Justice Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. Criminal Justice Abstracts contains more than 400,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Subject areas covered include: criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensic sciences and investigation.
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Criminal Justice Database (ProQuest) (1981+) This link opens in a new window"a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, dissertations, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields."
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Social Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window"ProQuest Social Science Journals is a definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of scientific journals. The database includes over 1000 titles, with the majority available in full text. It covers core disciplines across the social sciences including sociology, social work, anthropology, politics and other areas, featuring journals from over 50 countries, facilitating multidisciplinary research and providing researchers with a variety of perspectives."
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APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+) This link opens in a new windowThe APA PsycInfo® database, American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with one of the highest DOI matching rates in the publishing industry. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
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Additional Databases
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull text of research journals and eBooks from numerous publishers. For most of the journal content, we can access all but the 3 to 5 most recent years of the journal.
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Nexis Uni - All Content This link opens in a new window
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Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) This link opens in a new window
Provides citation indexing of top high-impact journals with powerful tools such as cited reference searching and Author Finder, 254 categories thoroughly cover the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Journal-eBook Databases
The following databases are provided from journal and ebook publisher sites. They contain additional Education sources, but the search interfaces are basic. You will need a well-develop set of keywords (search terms) to search these databases.
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Oxford Academic This link opens in a new windowOxford Academic access to scholarly and academic books and journals. It combines the full book and article content from Oxford Journals, Florida Scholarship Online, Oxford Scholarship Online, and Oxford Handbooks Online.
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Oxford Journals Online (OUP) (1827+) This link opens in a new windowSelective full text (1996+) of Oxford University Press journals covering a variety of disciplines:
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SAGE Journals This link opens in a new windowOur portfolio of more than 1,100 journals, including over 200 gold open access journals, and 400 society partners, allows us to help researchers, educators, institutions, and our society partners, shape the future. As an independent organization, we are free to think long-term, free to do more, and free to work together to create lasting relationships that transform and advance knowledge.
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Science Direct (1997+) This link opens in a new windowFull text scientific, technical and medical research journals, eBooks, Reference works, handbooks and book series published by Elsevier.
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Springer Nature Link This link opens in a new windowProviding researchers with access to millions of scientific documents from journals, books, series, protocols and reference works.
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Taylor & Francis Journals (T&F) This link opens in a new windowa one-stop site hosting international journals published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge
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Emerald Insight Journals and eBooks This link opens in a new windowOnline journals and eBooks from Emerald which publishes in a broad range of disciplines.
Data & Statistics
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National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) This link opens in a new window"The mission of the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) is to facilitate research in criminal justice and criminology, through the preservation, enhancement, and sharing of computerized data resources; through the production of original research based on archived data; and through specialized training workshops in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data."
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) (1970+) This link opens in a new windowan information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control.
Florida Crime Statistics
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Florida Criminal History Records StatisticsFlorida’s Computerized Criminal History (CCH) system is a fingerprint-based repository that collects electronic arrest and disposition data from law enforcement and criminal justice agencies across the state. Unless fingerprints were taken at a later stage in the criminal justice process, CCH does not include records involving a notice to appear, direct file, or sworn complaint where no jail booking has taken place. The presentations contain datasets comprised of the records with the date of arrest going back approximately 10 years. Only adult records and records of juveniles treated as adults are included in this statistic.
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Florida Criminal Justice Analytics Bureau - Data & StatisticsThis is an essential resource for criminal justice data in Florida. The Florida Statistical Analysis Center analyzes criminal justice data and prepares statistical reports for policy makers, planners, and program developers; and serves as a criminal justice resource for academicians, media, students, and others researching crime in Florida. FSAC contributes to the quality of data in the Criminal History files and Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) by analyzing and reporting on issues and anomalies in the data.
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Florida Department of Corrections - Index to Statistics and PublicationsProvides Florida reports and statistics - print versions of FDC Annual Reports are available in Florida Documents at the John C. Hitt Library (main library).
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Florida Department of Juvenile Justice - Reports and DataMission: To increase public safety by reducing juvenile delinquency through effective prevention, intervention and treatment services that strengthen families and turn around the lives of troubled youth.
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Florida Department of Law Enforcement - Publications"To promote public safety and strengthen domestic security by providing services in partnership with local, state, and federal criminal justice agencies to prevent, investigate, and solve crimes while protecting Florida’s citizens and visitors."
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Florida Uniform Crime ReportsFDLE's Uniform Crime Report (UCR) system provides sandardized reports on crime statistics based on data gathered from across the state. Records providing summary and detailed information are issue yearly. Pages include: Individual Crime Pages, Semi-Annual Reports, Annual Reports that include Arrest Data, Domestic Violence, Offense Data, and Officer Data.
Federal Crime Statistics
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BJS Census of JailsInformation on inmates, facilities, staff; programs, and costs of incarceration - conducted periodically since 1970.
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BJS National Prisoner Statistics"Annual and semiannual national and state-level data that includes the number of prisoners in state and federal prison facilities. Aggregate data are collected on age, race, and sex, inmates held in private facilities and local jails, system capacity, non-citizens, and persons under age 18."
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BJS Recidivism"Criminal history data from the FBI and state record repositories to study recidivism patterns of various offenders, including persons on probation or discharged from prison. The latest study of state prisoners estimated the recidivism patterns of about 400,000 persons released from state prisons in 30 states in 2005."
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Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)"The Bureau of Justice (BJS) provides freely available information about crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of the government. The Nation's two crime measures -- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Justice (BJS) and a statement of the purposes and advantages of the Uniform Crime Reporting and the National Crime Victimization Survey. "After summarizing the collection methods that the two statistical programs use and highlighting the aspects of crime that each measures, the statement concludes with similarities and differences."
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Crime Data ExplorerThe Crime Data Explorer is part of the FBI’s broader effort to modernize the reporting of national crime data. The CDE pages provide a view of estimated national and state data, reported agency-level crime statistics, and graphs of specific variables from the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). You can also download bulk datasets from a variety of UCR topics.
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National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) hosts several large-scale datasets, including the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), and the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN).
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National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ)The National Center for Juvenile Justice (NCJJ), located in Pittsburgh, PA. is the research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and is the oldest juvenile justice research group in the United States, having conducted national and sub national studies on crime and delinquency since 1973.
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National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)"The survey (NCVS) is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. "NCVS collects information from victims on nonfatal violent and property crimes, reported and not reported to the police, against persons age 12 or older. Each year, data are obtained from a nationally representative sample of about 90,000 households, comprising nearly 160,000 persons, on the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of criminal victimization in the United States. Each household is interviewed twice during the year." NCVS looks at crime as experienced by victims."
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National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) 1970+"Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide." (Public Access)
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Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency PreventionThe OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book (SBB) enables users to access online information via OJJDP's Web site to learn more about juvenile crime and victimization and about youth involved in the juvenile justice system.
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Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)"The FBI's UCR program, which began in 1929, collects information on the following crimes reported to law enforcement authorities: homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. Arrests are reported for 21 additional crime categories." The UCR measures crime as reported to law enforcement agencies."
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US Census Criminal Justice"The U.S. Census Bureau acts as a data collection agent to provide statistical data on a range of topics including capital punishment statutes, inmates on death row, inmate sexual victimization, inmate deaths, criminal justice expenditures, and a variety of facility data."
Primary Librarian
Corinne Bishop, EdD
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Secondary Librarian
Rae Mair
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