The Discovery Search box on the library home page is a great place to begin your criminal justice research.
The databases listed below are also useful for researching criminal justice-related topics.
For a complete list of databases and their descriptions, click the Databases link located on the CSU Library homepage.
Peer-reviewed articles, sometimes called scholarly or academic articles, are research studies or critical overviews of industry topics that are written by subject experts and reviewed by other experts in the field before publication in order to ensure the articles' quality.
See this guide for more information about identifying peer-reviewed articles and how to find them in the CSU Library.
The best way to search the library databases is to try out different combinations of key words/short phrases. Phrase searching is one technique you can use to refine your search. To phrase search, place phrases inside quotation marks or parentheses. This tells the database to search the phrase as a unit instead of a string of keywords.
Example:
"law enforcement"
(law enforcement)
Check out the CSU sponsored peer-reviewed journal for safety and emergency services!
Try searching the following individual journals related to criminal justice: