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The following is a list of online databases available in the Frederick Douglass Library to assist you with research in Government & Law.

Criminal Justice Government Additional Resources

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice Abstracts
Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice from 1968 to the present.  This database is NOT full-text.

Criminal Justice Periodicals
Criminal Justice Periodicals searches a comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.  This database contains full-text.

Lexis Nexis Academic
Lexis Nexis Academic is a full-text database that offers a wide range of news, political, legal, business, and reference information in full-text format. Primary source of newspaper articles, including those from the Washington Post and the New York Times. Federal code, regulations, and case law, plus state codes and case ...

PsycARTICLES    
PsycArticles contains more than 25,000 full text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations.  Coverage includes general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
This database provides coverage of more than 500 full text journals, including nearly 500 peer-reviewed titles. Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection covers topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

PsycINFO    
PsycINFO contains more than one million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations and technical reports, all in the field of psychology.  Journal coverage, which spans from 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,700 periodicals in over 35 languages.

Sociological Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for articles in over 1,700 journals, serials, conference papers, books, and dissertations. Many records for key journals in sociology, published since 2001, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article.

Government

CQ Weekly
Full-text weekly congressional legislative news and analysis.

Lexis Nexis Academic
Lexis Nexis Academic is a full-text database that offers a wide range of news, political, legal, business, and reference information in full-text format. Primary source of newspaper articles, including those from the Washington Post and the New York Times. Federal code, regulations, and case law, plus state codes and case ...

Military & Government Collection
This database provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Also includes the full-text of 245 pamphlets.

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