Research Guides: Police Staff and Command: Where to Search

Start here: Library Esearch

A quick search of most of the library’s books, articles, ebooks, dissertations, videos, music, and more.

Other helpful databases

Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
Subjects: Criminology, Corrections
Info type: scholarly articles
Brief Instruction Video: ProQuest Basics
Criminology & Criminal Justice Routledge Handbooks This link opens in a new window
Full text of 18 Routledge online handbooks.
Access Note: To search across the content of these 18 books: 1) enter a search 2) on the left side of the Results page, click on "Criminology and Criminal Justice"
HeinOnline's Government, Politics & Law This link opens in a new window
EMU's HeinOnline subscription includes access to policy briefs, publications and special collections on civil rights, international law, women, slavery, gun regulation and more. This government document and legal research database contains comprehensive coverage of both U.S. statutory materials and more than 2,300 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law.
ICPSR - Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research This link opens in a new window
Archive of social science data that can be downloaded and used for original research
Subjects: Political Science, Economics, Education, Geography, Health Care, Criminology, Social Issues
Info type: data sets, survey data, U.S. Census data
ProQuest PowerSearch This link opens in a new window
Search over 20 academic databases at the same time.
Subjects: Covers many subjects
Info type: scholarly articles, professional articles, magazine articles, news articles, dissertations and theses
Brief How-To Video: ProQuest Basics

Government Resources

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
Described as "The United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics," the BJS' mission is "to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government." (Source: BJS About Us page)
Federal Bureau of Prisons: Statistics
Statistical data on prison populations and staffing, which can be filtered to reflect granularity from the national level down to a specific facility.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library (NCJRS)
"Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is an Office of Justice Programs (OJP) resource offering information to support research, policy, and program development. The NCJRS Virtual Library contains bibliographic information and abstracts of more than 230,000 collection resources and over 80,000 online materials, including all known OJP works." (Source: NCJRS page)
U.S. Department of Justice: Publications
Links to DOJ (and other agency) publications.