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Sociology & Criminal Justice Reference Ebooks

Search the Gale Virtual Reference Library Sociology and Criminal Justice Ebook collection or select an individual title below.

Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society Encyclopedia of World Cultures & Supplement International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences 2nd Ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences

Sociology & Criminal Justice Databases

Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

CountryWatch - provides country specific geopolitical intelligence on each of the 192 countries of the world.

CQ Researcher - explores one current issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education, and science and technology. There are 44 reports produced each year (reports start in 1991). Only 5 users at one time

Criminal Justice Periodical Index - abstracts and some full text of articles from criminal justice literature.

Discovering Collection - a comprehensive reference database for the study of literature, history, science, biography, and social sciences.

Facts on File - a collection of interdisciplinary interactive databases that feature a wide range of subjects including American history, science, multicultural studies, women's studies, geography and careers.

Lexis-Nexis Academic - provides access to a wide range of news from English and non-English sources, business, legal, and medical information. Contains the full text for most of the articles.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - contains articles, topic overviews, primary documents and links to websites for a variety of social issues. All full-text articles.

Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study, and are accompanied by supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications. Funded by the New Jersey State Library.

Proquest Research Library Journals - a general interest database covering popular to scholarly journals. Contains the full text for some of the articles.

Science Direct - selected journals related to physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.

SIRS - SIRS Government Reporter contains current and historic government documents, directories and almanacs. SIRS Renaissance contains current perspectives on the arts and humanities. SIRS Researcher contains selected articles from popular journals and newspapers regarding current social issues, health, science, and business.

Social Science Journals - full-text periodicals covering the social sciences. Education Journals contains leading journals in education and related fields with full-text articles. Criminal Justice Periodical Index contains abstracts and some full text of articles from criminal justice literature. Psychology Journals provides full-text coverage from top psychology and related publications for both students and mental-health professionals. In ProQuest Social Science Journals, use the databases selected link to search any combination of the databases in this collection.

SocINDEX with Full Text - Offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, social development, social psychology, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, and others. In addition to the full-text journals included in the database, extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, periodicals and other non-periodical content sources is also included.