Criminal Justice Resources: Library Databases

An easy-to-use tool for research projects and homework. A giant online collection that searches hundreds of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 200,000+ images and audio files and nearly 100 videos. Credo Reference is a research starting point for students looking for background information to inform their topic. With millions of articles pulled from hundreds of books, Credo is a general knowledge database providing articles, images, charts, maps and other materials on thousands of topics.

Criminal Justice Database is 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.

Provides access to full-text newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals across a wide range of subject areas.

Quality interdisciplinary content to support scholarship and teaching, Jstor contains more than a thousand academic journals and over a million images, letters, and other primary sources and is one of the world's most trusted sources for academic content.

This link simultaneously searches all databases, products and services available at Monroe.

Access a wide selection of state-specific (and multi-state) legal forms and resources across the most popular legal areas.

Formerly e-Books on EBSCOHost and formerly NetLibrary, it provides access to e-books (digital versionss of books and journals). You can access the library’s eContent 24 hours a day, seven days a week.