Arden Library

Library Databases

Academic Search Complete

A multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text journals.

The British & Irish Legal Information Institute contains British and Irish case law and legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish materials. BAILII is a free resource but note it may not be as up to date as databases such as Westlaw UK. Check the status of any Act to see if it is provided in its original version, or if it has been revised.

BibliU

Provides access to the Key Texts for your programme all in one place. You can use BibliU online and offline using a web browser or a mobile app for Android or IOS and as this is your own personal Library you will also have the ability to highlight and take notes.

eBook Central

A multi-disciplinary collection of e-books aligned to Arden’s programmes.

EBSCO’s eBook Collection

A multi-disciplinary collection of e-books aligned to Arden’s programmes.

EBSCO’s Legal Source

A full-text database covering Law and Criminal Justice. It provides detailed indexing for legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications and university publications and contains more than 490 full text journal and magazine publications.

EBSCO Open Dissertations

A database with records for more than 1.2 million electronic theses and dissertations from around the world.

GALE Business: Insights

Gale Business: Insights provides users with detailed financial, historical, and current event information on over 400,000 companies, industries, and countries. Users can easily find Plunkett Reports, SWOT analyses, case studies, comparison charts, scholarly journals, and more.

Gale Power Search

GALE Power Search is a cross-search platform that enables users to do one search across multiple GALE databases.

Gale Research Complete

Gale Research Complete contains a wealth of resources including Gale eBooks (books and encyclopaedias), Gale Academic OneFile (journals), Gale General OneFile (magazines), Gale OneFile News (current newspapers), Gale Literature (English literature resources) and Archives Unbound (primary historical sources).

Global Crime

Global Crime publishes research on crime across international settings including issues relating to general crime trends, organized criminality, corruption and state crime.

Journal of Criminal Psychology

International and multidisciplinary, the Journal of Criminal Psychology publishes both scholarly and practitioner-based research on all aspects of the psychology of criminal behaviour.

Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology

The Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology presents peer-reviewed reports and research covering the theory and application of psychological principles in criminal justice, law enforcement, courts, and corrections.

Legislation.gov.uk

Legislation.gov.uk carries most (but not all) types of legislation and their accompanying explanatory documents. All legislation from 1988 is available (with a few minor exceptions). Legislation.gov.uk is a free resource but note it may not be as up to date as databases such as Westlaw UK. Check the status of any Act to see if it is provided in its original version, or if it has been revised.

Lexis Library

Provides access to a collection of highly regarded journals, loose-leafs, e-books and practitioner texts. The collection includes the Family Law Journal and The Family Court Practice (The Red Book).

Newswires

Provides near real-time access to top world-wide news from Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, Xinhua, CNN Wire, and Business Wire on a continuous basis.

Oxford University Press Law Journals Collection

The Oxford University Press Law Journals Collection is a collection of 48 scholarly journals covering areas of legal scholarship such as commercial, economic, and refugee law, as well as criminal justice.

Police Practice and Research - An International Journal

Police Practice and Research publishes articles on developments in policing, public order, state of safety, community policing, country- or region-specific police organization and more.

SAGE Journals Premier Collection

Provides access to journal titles across a range of titles and sub-disciplines.

ScienceDirect Freedom Collection

ScienceDirect provides access to the scientific, technical and medical journals of Elsevier and participating publishers. It contains more than 18 million articles and book chapters from over 2,650 peer-reviewed journals and 42,000 e-books, including books, book series and major reference works, and digital archives that reach as far back as 1823.

Statista

Statista is a data and statistics platform that consolidates more than 1 million statistics over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources.

Westlaw eBooks

A collection of practitioner texts covering a range of legal areas including Company and Commercial, Employment, Contract, Employment, EU & International, Family and Social Welfare, Human Rights, Intellectual Property, Tort and more.

Westlaw International

Provides access to International Legal Materials from countries including Australia, Canada, European Union, Hong Kong and Korea.

Westlaw UK

One of the major databases for case law, legislation, and commentary. It has the full text of the official Law Reports series and contains material back to 1220 via the English Reports. Westlaw UK also provides a ‘case analysis’ document for UK cases providing information about the case and where it has been judicially considered, and where it links to relevant legislation and commentary. It also provides access to European cases and international case law. For legislation it contains the fully consolidated full text of Acts since 1267 and selected Statutory Instruments since 1948.

World LII

The World Legal Information Institute: provides free, independent and non-profit access to worldwide law including a country by country listing (for constitutions, cases and legislation etc.)

Research Tools

Gorilla: Online Experiment Builder

Gorilla allows you to create behavioural experiments in your internet browser and get participants to complete them on their phone or computer. Using Gorilla, you can create response-time tasks, questionnaires, present videos, and lots more. In order to sign up to Gorilla, please follow the link above.

You must sing up to Gorilla using your Arden University email address. Please follow this guideline to complete your registration.

JAMOVI

Jamovi provides a complete suite of analyses, statistical spreadsheets, syntax modes,s and other features.

To download Jamovi, please use the ‘solid’ version. For support with Jamovi you can access the user manual.

If you need any support, please visit the Guidance for using all the tools in Jamovi.

NVivo

NVivo is a qualitative data analysis program, supporting data organisation, analysis and visualisation. You may find this useful when working with qualitative or mixed methods research where coding multiple data sources is required.

To install NVivo, please follow these instructions:

AU Guide to NVivo Installation

SPSS

Statistical package for social sciences, used by researchers to perform statistical analysis.

To install SPSS, please follow these instructions:

AU Guide to SPSS Installation [Windows]

AU Guide to SPSS Installation [Mac]

If you need any help, please contact our Academic Skills Tutors to ask for support or book an appointment.

Referencing Guide

You will be following AU Harvard as a student in the School of Criminal Justice. You can download the complete referencing guide here:

AU Complete Guide to Harvard Referencing

AU Short Guide to Harvard Referencing

Professional Bodies and Associations

Professional bodies and associations are organisations you will engage with throughout your career. Becoming familiar with them during your studies is a great way to keep up to date with developments in your field and build your professional network.

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

An international association established in 1963 to foster professional and scholarly activities in the field of criminal justice and criminology. ACJS promotes criminal justice and criminology education, policy analysis, and research for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers.

American Society of Criminology

An international organisation whose members pursue scholarly, scientific, and professional knowledge concerning the measurement, consequences, prevention, control, and treatment of crime and delinquency.

British Society of Criminology

A leading international organisation aiming to further the interests and knowledge of both scholars and practitioners involved in any aspect of professional activity, teaching, research or public education related to crime, criminal behaviour and criminal justice systems in the United Kingdom and abroad.

European Society of Criminology

The Society aims to bring together in Europe persons actively engaged in research, teaching and/or practice in the field of Criminology. The Society wishes to foster criminological scholarship, research, education and training, and to encourage scholarly, scientific and practical exchange and cooperation among criminologists in Europe.

Police Federation of England & Wales

The statutory staff association for police constables, sergeants, inspectors and chief inspectors in the 43 territorial police forces in England and Wales.

Podcasts

Criminology

Criminology is a true crime podcast that takes a deep dive into some of the most famous cases in the annals of crime, hosted by Mike Ferguson and Mike Morford.

Criminology Academy

A podcast, hosted by Jose Sanchez and Jennifer Tostlebe, two doctoral students at CU Boulder, where they talk about research in the field of criminology with field experts, their own work, and life as grad students.

Women and Crime

This podcast tells a new story each episode, and we use a criminologist's lens to look at how women are treated in the criminal justice system, the causes of female crime and victimisation, as well as cover cases in which women have been wrongfully convicted and exonerated.

Criminal Behaviorology

This podcast focuses on the overlap between criminology and behaviour analysis.

Criminally Listed Presents Into the Killing

This podcast examines criminal cases that were unsolved and cold for years, in some cases decades. Then a break comes along and cracks the case wide open. Into the Killing will detail the crime, the investigation, and the resolution. Besides examining cold cases that are solved, Into the Killing will also take a look at the history of forensic science and how that has changed the world of criminology.

Criminal Justice

Library Databases

Academic Search Complete

EBSCO’s eBook Collection

EBSCO’s Legal Source

EBSCO Open Dissertations

Westlaw UK

Research Tools

Gorilla: Online Experiment Builder

SPSS

Referencing Guide

Professional Bodies and Associations

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

American Society of Criminology

British Society of Criminology

European Society of Criminology

Police Federation of England & Wales

Podcasts

Criminology

Criminology Academy

Women and Crime

Criminal Behaviorology

Criminally Listed Presents Into the Killing

Useful Websites

UK Government Home Office

Ministry of Justice

Office for National Statistics

Death Penalty Information Centre (DPIC)

Howard League for Penal Reform (HLPR)

Prison Reform Trust

Amnesty International

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Restorative Justice Council

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