Resources By Department: Social Work: Social Justice

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Renfro Databases you might find useful for Social Justice topics. This is a small sample. For our entire database list, see Databases A-Z.

AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE DATABASE Articles plus searchable charts, figures, graphs, maps, photographs and tables representing all major environment topics.
ERIC Indexing and abstracts for articles and documents in education, from 1966 to the present. Provides full text of some articles and of ERIC Digests from 1967 to the present. (EBSCOhost via NCLive)
GENDER STUDIES DATABASE Provides over a million records from scholarly and popular publications, including journals, books, conference papers and theses. Coverage spans 1930 to the present.
JSTOR SUSTAINABILITY Journals, e-books and research reports on environmental stresses and their impact on society
MILITARY & GOVERNMENT COLLECTION Provides more than 270 full-text journals and periodicals pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHIES - CRIMINOLOGY As a discipline which examines crime as a social phenomenon, criminology is a constantly changing and expanding field. Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology is a much-needed online guide to the essential literature across the various subfields of criminology.
PROQUEST COMPUTER SCIENCE DATABASE Scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles covering topics such as artificial intelligence, automation, gaming, graphics, networking, security, database management, systems administration, information science and hardware.
PROQUEST POLITICAL SCIENCE DATABASE Political science and international relations journals, dissertations and working papers on topics such as comparative politics, political economy, international development, and environmental policy.
PROQUEST PUBLIC HEALTH DATABASE This database allows you to search the core literature in the field of public health.
RACE RELATIONS ABSTRACTS Provides indexing and abstracting for the top academic journals, books, periodicals and newspapers related to the field of ethnic and racial studies. Coverage dates back to 1903.
WOMEN'S STUDIES INTERNATIONAL Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 630 publications with coverage spanning 1881 to the present.

The following are web links to areas of Social Justice interest. If you have additional sites you feel should be included, please email them to wendy_dover@mhu.edu.

DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER Analysis and information concerning capital punishment, including issues such as race, innocence, public opinion, costs, deterrence, and clemency. Lists upcoming and recent executions, methods of executions, state execution rates, and the number of executions by state.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND JUSTICE (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
HOMES AND COMMUNITIES Department of Housing and Urban Development.
NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFERENCE SERVICE Searchable database, with information on corrections, courts, crime prevention, international law, juvenile justice, and law enforcement. Also has information on drugs and crime, crime victims, and criminal justice statistics.
OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS Policy statements, data, and links to related sites. (US Dept. of Education)

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