Sociology Databases

Criminal Justice Periodicals via ProQuest

A collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including information on law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.

Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society 3v, 2004

This encyclopedia presents the social and cultural history of childhood from antiquity to the present. Children and Childhood examines this history through articles on education, parenting, child labor, economics, images of childhood, children's literature, play, toys and games, health, physiology, law, the criminal justice system and social welfare. Comparative articles include information about childhood in cultures throughout the world.

PsycARTICLES via EBSCO

Access nearly 50 full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more. Produced by the American Psychological Association.

PsycINFO via EBSCO

PsycINFO®, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage spans from 1887 to present.

Statistical Warehouse via Regional OneSource

Database allows reports to contain as few as a single data element, or many --- in a single subject category, or drawn from several --- for a single year, or for many years --- about a single location, or for many locations --- listed alphabetically, or ranked --- etc. The fact that the information is stored in a bona fide database provides opportunities for data retrieval and data display that are unavailable from a simple data collection.

More information relevant to sociology may be found in the General/Multidisciplinary article databases