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WashLaw Web provides users with links to law-related materials on the Internet. Generally speaking, the information is arranged alphabetically, by subject, and by geographic location. All links on WashLaw Web are maintained by staff members of the Washburn University School of Law Library. This remains one of my favorite legal information portal sites (along with LII / Legal Information Institute). From here ... Anywhere!

The ALSO portal provides a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States and Canada. This site contains additional links to sources of commentary and practice aids that are available without charge (or available at a reasonable charge from governmental and nonprofit providers).

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Justia's mission is to advance the availability of legal resources for the benefit of society. Justia is especially focused on making primary legal materials and community resources free and easy to find on the Internet. The company provides Internet users with free case law, codes, regulations, legal articles and legal blog and twittterer databases, as well as additional community resources.

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An online legal information platform. Following an agreement signed with ProQuest, vLex has started to integrate over 1000 new sources, including: weekly news magazines, local newspapers and magazines that cover a variety of topics such as business, law, industry and culture.

Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific literature, and are available in print and online to individuals, institutions, and consortia throughout the world.

Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific literature, and are available in print and online to individuals, institutions, and consortia throughout the world.

Searchable full-text e-book versions of many reference works.

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Large collection that includes Oxford Companion to the Mind and more. Longer entries contain bibliographies of key works.

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Data intensive database that matches with social issues and current events. Highly academic portfolio.

SEP is designed so that each entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. All entries and substantive updates are refereed by the members of an Editorial Board before they are made public. Consequently, SEP maintains academic standards while evolving and adapting in response to new research...

Wex is an ambitious effort to construct a collaboratively created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. Hosted by Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.

This free encyclopedia contains entries & contributions by volunteers that are not refereed and should be verified. Most contain extensive information with reference references in a short essay format.

TO SEARCH CRIMINAL JUSTICE ABSTRACTS, GO TO ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE, SELECT "CHOOSE DATABASES" AND THEN SELECT "CRIMINAL JUSTICE ABSTRACTS. "[A] comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals."

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Current issues of American Anthropological Association's journals and bulletins as well as archived issues of all the AAA's journals, newsletters and bulletins. Journal issues generally appear online prior to distribution in print. Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications. Entire article database searchable by keyword. Subscribers can use personalization options to save searches and to receive email updates

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Criminal Justice Abstracts ... contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.

Inclusive coverage: 1981 to present. Online continuation of the print publication: The Criminal justice periodical index.

Covers such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence.

Includes citations for over 2.3 million dissertations and theses from around the world, ranging from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts.

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A complete bibliography of educational materials available since 1966. Indexes published and unpublished sources on thousands of educational topics, with information from RIE (Resources in education) and CIJE (Current index to journals in education)

An online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education.

Foreign Law Guide is intended to facilitate access to current primary and, to a lesser degree, secondary sources of foreign law. Fully aware of the inherent difficulty of uniformly treating and controlling legislation coming from diverse legal systems, the editors have attempted to provide, within countries and jurisdictions, a subject breakdown...

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Google Scholar has developed a case law search option. The US Federal case law database includes US Supreme Court opinions since 1 US 1 (pre - 1776), Federal Appeals opinions since 1 F 2d 1 (1924+), and many Federal District Court opinions from F Supp. Opinions from all 50 states are included since 1950.

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Citations to articles from over 600 legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications originating in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Includes book reviews.

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Full text image-based searchable database of legal publications

Originally derived from two essential reference collections for historical legal studies, the 19th Century and 20th Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections. Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history, including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, etc.

Derived from two essential reference sources; for the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America's first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; for 1915-1978, the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a nationally recognized research facility and the single largest member supported law library in the United States. Features a fully s

A quick, state-by-state comparison of current state laws -- how they differ and how they're similar -- for a range of relevant subjects from abortion to employment discrimination, child custody to interest rates.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service abstracts database [electronic resource] / U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice

Searchable database of information from The Oxford guide to United States Supreme Court decisions. Resource includes over 400 entries for Supreme Court decisions throughout U.S. history published in the Oxford companion to the Supreme Court. Additionally, 45 new entries for post-1991 decisions have been included.

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Urban Studies & Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 42 years, and encompasses over 10,500 articles.

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A complete text of the 2nd. ed. of the Oxford English dictionary with quarterly updates, including revisions not available in any other form.

A database of reference books published by SAGE covering the social sciences and education, including such areas as African American Studies, Aged & Gerontology, Anthropology, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology and Criminal Justice, Economics...

Authoritative and comprehensive, this multivolume set includes hundreds of articles in the field of criminal justice. [Access Restricted]

What causes crime? This seemingly simple question is dauntingly complex and, not surprisingly, has yielded answers so diverse and numerous as to fill two volumes of the Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory. The richness in the attempts to explain the origins of crime is, to a large extent, a direct function of the intricate nature of human beings.

This Encyclopedia is richly interdisciplinary. It is decisively global. And it reflects the paradoxical reality of modern life, including legal life: the sameness at the heart of difference... [Access Restricted]

The United States confines more people per capita than any other equivalent industrialized, democratic country. It is also one of the last remaining such nations to practice capital punishment ... [Access Restricted]

The study of race and crime has a long history in
the discipline of criminology and the study of criminal justice. The encyclopedia is designed to provide reference material and an introduction to historical
and contemporary race and crime topics.

Criminology is the body of knowledge regarding crime as a social phenomenon. It includes within its scope the process of making laws, of breaking laws and reacting to the breaking of laws. … The objective of criminology is the development of a body of general and verifiable
principles and of other types of knowledge regarding the process of law, crime and treatment.