Arden Library

Library Databases

Academic Search Complete

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

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 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).

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).

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.

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.

Referencing Guide

As a Criminology, Joints, or Foundation Pathway student, you will be following AU Harvard. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.