Criminal Justice: Key Databases

Click here to see the various databases you could use in your Criminal Justice Research.

The American Prison Newspapers collection is open access and freely available to everyone who wishes to use it. Libraries can help their users discover the collection by adding it to A-Z lists and incorporating it into research guides in U.S. History, Sociology, Journalism, and Criminology & Criminal Justice.

Primary search tool to browse and access U.S. census data and build custom, downloadable tables, charts, reports, maps and data visualizations. Includes detailed data on population, housing, economics, and geographies from the Decennial Census, American Community Survey, Economic Census and other surveys.
Topics and geographies are easy to search using the single search bar, or access more detailed data using the filters in the Advanced Search option.