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SOWK 370: Social Work and the Criminal Justice System: Databases & Articles

The criminal justice system affects many of social work’s clients while ensuring public safety and offering services to offenders and victims of crime. This course examines the intersection between the profession of social work and the American criminal j

Databases at UMBC - Social Work

UMBC - Featured Social Work Resources

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Databases at UMCP - Criminology and Criminal Justice

Databases at UMCP - Law

Global Periodical Directory

How do I know if a journal is scholarly (or contains peer-reviewed articles)?

Which electronic databases include this journal?

Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory

Easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly (peer-reviewed) journals, e-journals, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters. Covers more than 900 subject areas. Includes ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.

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