Welcome to the Manuel Library's guide for criminal justice research! This guide is designed to help CU students get started on their research in criminal justice and criminology. By clicking on the tabs to the left, you'll find different kinds of resources like dictionaries, journals, and databases.
If you have any questions or suggestions for this guide, contact us at library@carolinau.edu!
Reference works like dictionaries and encyclopedias are excellent sources of general information about a topic. They contain brief articles about basic terms, ideas, and people that are important in their subject. This page lists some of the electronic and print reference books the library owns.
The library’s discovery search will combine results from many of the library’s databases. However, searching individual databases can help you narrow your search if you are getting to many results. Here are the library databases that will have the most resources dedicated to criminal justice topics.
Other databases are freely available on the web, like these:
The library subscribes to many journals in the area of criminal justice, including these top scholarly journals:
To find more publications in the library's subscriptions, use our publication finder.
Open access journals are also a great source of scholarly information:
Find more open access journals at the Directory of Open Access Journals.
The following links are for publicly available resources that provide information about crime: