Criminology

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Databases

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Provide access to useful research materials from abstracts, academic journals, newspapers, e-books, and various multimedia.

Journals

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• Hansard

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Transcripts are records of court proceedings (including decisions made by judges and arguments from solicitors).

• Published Government Documents

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Includes parliamentary reports, hansard, law commission reports, and committee reports.

Australia’s national statistical agency. An official source of independent, reliable information.


The data tables contain estimates from the British Crime Survey (BCS) broken down by a number of demographic characteristics.


The United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. The mission of BJS is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.


Ireland's national statistical office and our purpose is to impartially collect, analyse and make available statistics about Ireland’s people, society and economy.


Used to evaluate and develop crime reduction policies as well as providing vital information about the changing levels of crime over the last 30 years.


• Data.Gov 

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data.


Information collected, analysed, and presented by the HM Prison Service.


The UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics. Responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to the economy, population and society at national, regional, and local levels.


Access to more than a million statistics from many different sources. Useful for finding industrial, economic and consumer market statistical trends.

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The agency ensures Canadians have the key information on Canada's economy, society and environment that they require to function effectively as citizens and decision makers.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Official statistics from the UK Government.

 

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