Bridging Research and Practice in Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Security

The Criminology Collection supports research and professional preparation in criminal justice and law enforcement. It offers extensive indexing and full text across scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, blogs, and other relevant sources. The collection includes leading scholarly journals such as The American Journal of Criminal Justice and The Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, and trade publications such as Criminal Justice and Security providing extensive coverage of crime, its causes, trends, and societal impact.

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Bridging Research with Practice

Authoritative Criminal Justice Resources

Authoritative Criminal Justice Resources

Combines indexing and full-text coverage of U.S. and international scholarly journals with correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, blogs, and more—supporting insight into crime’s causes, trends, and societal impacts, with over 10,000 criminal justice dissertations included

Insightful Criminology Research

Insightful Criminology Research

Explores research on crime's causes, trends, and societal impacts through indexing and full-text coverage of scholarly and trade titles on criminal justice and related topics

Tailored To Both Academics and Career Professionals

Tailored To Both Academics and Career Professionals

With both trade publications and scholarly materials, users can study theory and practice informing research and best practice for those in law enforcement professions

Efficient Searching

Efficient Searching

Supports scholars and future criminal justice or law enforcement professionals with extensive searching through a single interface. The ProQuest thesaurus—featuring hundreds of criminal justice specific controlled vocabulary terms—helps users quickly locate the most relevant results

By the Numbers
12,000+

Full-text dissertations

250+

Full-text scholarly journals

47

Full-text magazines and trade journals

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Content Format

Full text

Abstract and index

Includes content from...

Criminal Justice Database
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database

Highlighted Subjects

Corrections administration
Criminal justice
Criminal law
Cybersecurity
Family law
Homeland security
Law enforcement

Types of Content

Scholarly journals
Trade publications
Crime blogs
Dissertations

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