Library: Criminal Justice: Forensic Science

Forensic Science Research Databases

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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage of sociology, its scope includes subjects such as abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, religion, rural & urban sociology, social psychology, and social work, to name a few. Contains full text for more than 890 journals, 850 books, and over 16,800 conference papers.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window An interdisciplinary database that contains over 1,000 full text, online journals in the fields of business, education, health, the humanities, law enforcement, criminology, and other social sciences. Several of these journals are the most authoritative and influential in their fields. Access from 1999-present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Updated regularly. Offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. Includes archives of over 1,000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window Contains over 4,000 in-depth research reports from 1923 to present on the world’s most pressing issues (gay marriage, gun control, Middle East conflicts, etc.) with data, charts, and visuals.
Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window The world's largest academic, multi-disciplinary database with full text journals, newspapers, magazines, reports, eBooks and videos. Meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers nearly 300 full-text periodicals and academic journals.
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window Full access to over 207,000 resources related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management from a wide variety of sources including federal, state and local governments; international governments and institutions; and nonprofit organizations and private entities.

Multidisciplinary eBook databases:

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary eBooks representing a broad range of subjects.
Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window eBooks on a range of subjects such as business, information technology, education, engineering, health, history, humanities, life & physical sciences, and social and behavioral sciences.

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Films On Demand: Master Academic Package This link opens in a new window Full-length streaming videos in the humanities, social sciences, business, health, medicine, sciences, and mathematics fields.
Alexander Street: Academic Video Online‎ This link opens in a new window A large multidisciplinary collection of streaming videos. Includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, award-winning films, including Academy® and Emmy® winners, newly released films, and archival material previously unavailable.
ImageQuest (Britannica) This link opens in a new window Nearly 3 million rights-cleared images from more than 50 collections including Getty Images, the National Portrait Gallery of London, and the National Geographic Society.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.

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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Specialized reference eBooks for background information on all subjects, including audio, video, and image results.
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window The largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world, this database contains articles, maps, images, videos, and yearbooks from 1993 to present. Use it instead of Wikipedia for your research!
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window More than 50 reference eBooks in business, communications, history, law, literature, medicine, nation & world, science, and technology.

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Global forensic cultures: Making fact and justice in the modern era

Cyber security and digital forensics: Challenges and future trends

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Security, privacy, and digital forensics in the cloud

Digital forensics basics: A practical guide using Windows OS

Selected Resources

Journals
Associations & Organizations

Forensic Imaging This peer reviewed, international journal, formerly known as Journal of Forensic Radiology and Imaging covers various noninvasive and minimally invasive examination methods in a forensic context, mainly around the context of postmortem imaging, but also in conjunction with clinical forensic cases (full text from 2013 to present).
Forensic Science International This peer reviewed, international journal covers fields including: forensic pathology and histochemistry, chemistry, biochemistry and toxicology, biology, serology, odontology, psychiatry, anthropology, digital forensics, the physical sciences, firearms, and document examination (full text from 1995 to present).
Forensic Science International: Genetics This peer reviewed, international journal covers the branch of Forensic Science that can be defined as the application of genetics to human and non-human material for the resolution of legal conflicts (full text from 2007 to present).
Forensic Science Review A peer reviewed journal providing authors a base to extrapolate state-of-the-art information in the field of forensic science and to synthesize it into readable review articles.
Forensic Sciences Research This peer reviewed, international journal covers research on forensic sciences, including forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, criminalistics and crime scene investigation (full text from 2016 to present).
Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (JDFSL) This peer reviewed journal aims are to open up the landscape for innovation and discussion, and to continuously bridge the gap between the science and practice of cyber forensics, security and law (full text from 2006 to present).
Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine This peer reviewed journal covers forensic and legal medicine. Specifically it supports research that explores the medical principles of care and forensic assessment of individuals, whether adult or child, in contact with the judicial system (full text from 2007 to present).

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data From: Institute of Social Research at University of Michigan This website gives access to data analysis, reports and publications and various data resource guides.
American Forensic Association Our members include researchers in argumentation theory, practice and criticism from throughout the world.
American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) A multidisciplinary professional organization that provides leadership to advance science and its application to the legal system.

How to use this guide

This guide is designed to help you with your research, introducing a range of Forensic Science resources available to you. The Forensic Science Research Databases box lists databases recommended in your subject area that you can search to find articles, eBooks, etc.

Background Information

Forensic evidence

Donne, M. (n.d.). Forensic evidence [Photograph].

Forensic Science
Criminology This is a topic page, which contains background information in many formats. It also pulls in resources from many Excelsior Library databases, making it a one-stop place to brush up on your topic!

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