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Criminal Justice: Searching Tips for ProQuest Criminal Justice

Information resources for Criminal Justice

Searching Tips

ProQuest Criminal Justice – Comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. Contains U.S. and international scholarly journals, corrections and correctional and law enforcement trade publications, reports, news, crime statistics, and crime blogs.

ProQuest Criminal Justice

A few search limiters show up on the left side of the search results screen.

Ones that may be the most helpful are Full TextPeer Reviewed, and Source Type (academic journals, books, magazines, etc.)

Subject headings are not shown in search results. Full text access and abstract/details are listed. 

Upon clicking on an article's record, subject headings are found in the abstract/details section. 

Citation Guides

Guides for the major styles are below.