Criminology
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Key databases
CINCH 
CINCH covers all aspects of crime and criminal justice in Australia.
SAGE Premier Full Text
SAGE Premier includes 550+ titles in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine with full-text back to 1999.
SAGE Premier Help
AGIS Plus Text Full Text
AGIS Plust Text provides access to legal journals for Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. Includes all aspects of law.
APA-FT Full Text
Australian Public Affairs Full-Text provides access to articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities.
Humanities and Social Science Collection Selected Full Text
This database abstracts research on all aspects of cultural, creative, Indigenous and social life in Australia.
FORENSICnetBASE Full Text
FORENSICnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on forensic science, law enforcement and criminal justice.
FORS
The Forensic Bibliographic Database abstracts the literature relevant to the examination of evidential materials, analytical methods and the presentation and interpretation of findings.
Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.
Sociological Abstracts Selected Full Text
Sociological Abstracts offers international coverage of sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied.
Worth a look
ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics 
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Access all Australian Bureau of Statistics publications in full text from 1998.
ABS Help Index
CINCH-Health
CINCH-Health covers medico-legal issues relating to mental health, drugs and alcohol, suicide, HIV/AIDS, corrections health, euthanasia, and occupational health and safety.
HeinOnline Full Text
HeinOnline includes 1,200 law journals on all aspects of the environment, history, politics, business, public policy, government, international issues and criminal justice. Check HeinOnline Titles for a full list. User's Guide (pdf) | Videos and PowerPoints
Legal Online Full Text
Legal Online includes FirstPoint, The Laws of Australia, Case Law, Journals, Commentaries and Alerts. Journal articles are available as PDF from January 2001. Legal Online covers a wide range of legal topics from court practice to trade practices law.
Newsbank Full Text
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.
Taylor & Francis Full Text
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Wiley Online Library Full Text
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries
21st Century Criminology: A Reference Handbook
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence
Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law
Encyclopedia of Race and Crime
Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
Encyclopedia of Social Problems
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Encyclopedia of Sociology
Encyclopedia of Terrorism
Handbook of Transnational Crime & Justice
Web sites and Internet resources
ANZPAA - Australia New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency
Australian Government Attorney-General's Department
Australian Institute of Criminology
BOCSAR - NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (NSW Attorney General's Department.) BOCSAR is the official source of NSW crime statistics. BOCSAR conducts research into crime and criminal justice & evaluates initiatives designed to reduce crime & reoffending.
Bureau of Justice Statistics - U.S. Department of Justice
Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice - U.S. non-profit organisation
Criminal Law - Parliament of Australia
Criminology Research Council - Australian Government
International Victimology Website - the International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT)
Just Search - search full-text reports and references collated by the International Criminal Law Database & Commentary
NCJRS - National Criminal Justice Reference Services. A U.S. federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide
NSW Attorney General's Department
NSW Department of Corrective Services
NSW Director of Public Prosecutions
Research Development & Statistics - U.K. Home Office
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - supported by the U.S. Department of Justice.
UNE Law websites & internet resources
United Nations Human Rights Treaties - Prof Anne Bayefsky's website providing documents from 1992. Search by State, category (jurisprudence, issues, reports) or by Theme/Subject Matter (civil rights, freedom of expression, habeas corpus).
Weblaw: Criminology - a subject index to quality internet resources for Australian legal researchers. This Online Legal Access Project is co-ordinated by the Law Foundation of NSW.
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