Criminal Justice Resources: Home

The following databases are ones best suited for Criminal Justice research:

* For HeinOnline remember to head to their "Criminal Justice & Criminology" page

When searching, make sure you play around with the keywords you use.

Sometimes the language you think of in your head, isn't the same language a database uses to categorizes things. Below are some helpful subject terms you might try, all of which hit on the juvenile justice system in some way:

• Juvenile Corrections
• Juvenile Delinquency
• Juvenile Detention
• Juvenile Detention Homes
• Juvenile Justice Administration
• Juvenile Offenders

You also want to take advantage of your filters.

You can filter by date to keep things current.

You can filter by subject and try limiting to "Juvenile Justice" (HeinOnline-specific)

Here are a few additional (credible) places to find information:

• U.S. Department of Jusice | Office of Justice Programs | "Juvenile Justice" page
  • A sampling of publications:
  • "An Overview of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act" (pdf)
  • "Characteristics of Cases Judicially Waived from Juvenile Court to Criminal Court" (pdf)
  • "Five Things About Youth and Delinquency"
  • "Highlights from the 2022 Juvenile Residential Facility Census" (pdf)
• NCJRS {National Criminal Justice Reference Service} Library
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
  • A sampling of resources:
    • "Crimes Involving Juveniles, 1993-2022" (pdf)
    • "Just the Stats | Juveniles Incarcerated in U.S. Adult Jails and Prisons, 2002–2021" (pdf)
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

All these journals are searchable in our main search@scc box, but if you want to browse issues, you can use the links below to access the journals directly. This is just a sample of major journals in criminology we have access to.