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Criminal Justice (Gale OneFile)
Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice provides access to academic journals and magazines on topics in criminal justice and related fields, including law, law enforcement, security, forensic science, and homeland security.
Military and Intelligence (Gale OneFile)
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Facts and Statistics

Bureau of Justice Statistics
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
CIA World Factbook The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
FactCheck.org A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States

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eBooks

Misc.

American Bar Association Criminal Justice Resources
American Correctional Association
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
Civic Classics Collection
EdX Courses: Criminal Justice
FindLaw Provides legal information, lawyer profiles and a community to help you make the best legal decisions.
Google Scholar Google has amassed patents, scholarly articles, conference proceedings, and article abstracts in an easy-to-use platform. If the article is not available online freely, check the Journal Finder on the library website. If our library does not have a subscription to the journal, please fill out an inter-library loan form to request it from another library. Google Scholar has articles from many different disciplines.
Homeland Security Digital Library
Listing of Open Access Databases (LOADB)
Milestone Documents Featuring 100 milestone documents of American history from the National Archives. Includes images of original primary source documents, lesson plans, teacher and student competitions, and educational resources.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
National Institute of Corrections
NOLO Legal Dictionary Nolo's Free Dictionary Of Law Terms and Legal Definitions
Open Learn: Criminology
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) A comprehensive guide to writing various types of academic papers/reports and citing sources in established citation styles
United States Department of Justice

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