Criminal Justice Focus

Some databases and search systems that will help with a Criminal Justice lens are:

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Indexes 13,800+ magazines and journals, with full articles from over 9,000. Covers many subject areas.
CBCA - Canadian Business & Current Affairs This link opens in a new window
Canada's most comprehensive and diverse full-text online database providing high-quality indexing for over 1,800 publications and full text for more than 700. Broad coverage from a Canadian perspective spans agriculture, business and economics, education, government and politics, health sciences, history, literature, medical sciences, social sciences, and many more subject areas.
CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute) This link opens in a new window
Excellent sources for past and current (mostly last 5-8 years) court decisions in provincial and federal courts. Users can search by title (I.e., persons or organization involved in the case) or full text. Tip: for cases by subject area, try entering the name of the act(s) involved as a phrase (e.g. residential tenancy act) in full text.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts This link opens in a new window
The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of the more than 210,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection.
Juristat This link opens in a new window
Excellent source of information on current crime issues and statistics.