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National Criminal Justice Research Service
This free resource offers abstracts of journal articles as well as federal, state, and local government reports, books, and research studies. Also includes a separate search for available full-text publications.

ProQuest Criminal Justice
A comprehensive database focuses on U.S. and international criminal justice journals, providing research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law and industrial security.

THOMAS
A government website that offers current and past bill text, summary, sponsors, and votes; committee information; the Congresional Record, and more.

Congressional Digest Debates Online (Pro & Con Publishers)
Access to the archives of Congressional Digest, Supreme Court debates, and international debates covering a wide-range of public and international policy issues.

CQ Researcher
From Congressional Quarterly, each report addresses a controversial current issue, including historical perspective, recent developments, opposing viewpoints, and sources for additional research.

CQ Weekly
This weekly publication from Congressional Quarterly offers expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: news, bill status, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, investigations, hearings, debates, and more.

Military & Government Collection (via EBSCOhost)
This database offers a collection of magazines, academic journals, and other content relating to current events in the military and government.

Social Work Abstracts (via OVID)
Indexes and abstracts of more than 450 journals in social work, human services, and related fields.

Psychiatry Online
A web-based portal featuring DSM-IV-TR® - the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world - and The American Journal of Psychiatry, along with a variety of other popular psychiatry journals, textbooks, news and more.

PsycINFO (via EBSCOhost) 1887+
Contains over 1.5 million records from more than 1700 periodicals in all fields relating to psychology, including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

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General and Interdisciplinary Content Databases
General content databases cover a range of subjects and may be helpful to your research in this area.

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