Welcome to the Criminology LibGuide
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There are a wide range of online resources that will help you trace books, journal articles and much more, to support your study and research.
Take a look at some of the key databases highlighted on the adjacent tabs. These vast online databases enable you to quickly and easily search and discover content.
Key Criminology Research DatabasesThe following databases will help you discover material related to criminology and criminal justice. You have access to further resources via the Criminology subject list area in the A-Z Databases list.
Use the Databases A-Z List to access all the resources available to you.
You can browse by subject e.g. Criminology or type (e.g.maps, news, images etc.) or search to find your required resource.
Allied subjects include Sociology, Psychology, Politics and Security Studies. You will also find LibGuides available for these and other subject disciplines.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less).
You can explore TED Talks related to the topic of crime and criminal justice.
You'll find talks on all sorts of other topics too. The latest and most popular talks are available from the TED homepage.
Below is a talk giving insights into 'How global crime networks work', delivered by Misha Glenny
You can use the following catalogues to search for material held at other libraries:
The European Library - gives access to the collections of the 48 National Libraries of Europe and leading European Research Libraries.
You are likely to use a wide range of different types of information sources for your criminological research. As well as academic sources such as books and journals, criminal justice themes are addressed in government publications, news sources etc. Use the online support highlighted here to guide your searching
Online Books
You have online access to hundreds of online books that cover criminology and criminal justice. Use the Library Search to search by topic to discover relevant content. For example, you have access to criminology ebook collections from the Sage and Springer publishers. Take a look a the following to give you an idea of how you can search and browse online books like these,
21st Century Criminology: a reference handbook
Expert Evidence and International Criminal Justice
Print Books
The Forum Library print books are arranged in Dewey Decimal Classification order. This means that books on similar topics are grouped together. Find out more with our Classmarks guide. The majority of books on criminology related subjects will be found at number 364 in the library, for example:
| 364 | General Criminology Subjects |
| 364..0182 | Criminology Statistics |
| 364.03 | Criminology Dictionaries |
| 364.072 | Research Methods in Criminology |
| 364.12 | Crime Detection |
| 364.125 | Finger printing |
However, criminology is a wide ranging discipline and you are likely to wish to consult materials from other areas such as Sociology, Politics, Law, Psychology - to name just a few! Library Search will help you locate these materials
Here is an indication of some of the article topics related to Criminology and Criminal Justice within Oxford Handbooks Online.
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Statistics is the science of collecting, analysing and presenting numerical data.
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They can be a vital source of information for your studies.
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Sage Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a great resource to use when you are planning and conducting your research.
It is targeted at social science researchers but is useful across all subject areas as it covers key research methodology topics that are applicable across the research spectrum.
Sage have produced a comprehensive LibGuide to help you get the best from the resource.
