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The Congressional Research Service is the think tank of Congress. It writes and publishes reports on policy issues, including issues involving law enforcement and criminal justice.
The Library of Congress has an extensive database of CRS Reports.
These databases index scholarly articles and legal research for Criminal Justice.
Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO)
Covering major journals in criminology. Use this for scholarly research.
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
Indexes legal periodicals, including law reviews, and books, 1982 to present. Law reviews are not considered scholarly research.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts
Covers the fields of law enforcement and criminal justice from 1970 to the present. Search here for professional publications (such as ones written for law enforcement).
Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields.
The major index for articles, books, chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology.
Index and abstracts to articles in sociology.
The Multi-Search can be overwhelming, so to limit the amount of unrelated books and articles, you can search multiple databases at once so you'll be more about your topic, but less that doesn't fit.
Click on one of the databases above.
Then click on "Choose Databases."
Then choose specific databases from the list: