GSU Library Research Guides: CRJU 8710: Legal Aspects of Criminal Justice: Law Reviews & Articles

Law Reviews

Law Reviews & Journals are another great secondary source for researchers looking to start and expand upon their research. Reviews and journals are the primary forum for legal scholarship in the academic legal community. Generally the articles included in these publications are written by law professors, judges, legal scholars, and law students. These articles contain a wealth of information, including footnotes that cite to primary authority and other secondary resources.

Georgia State University Law Review by Georgia State University College of Law

Quarterly published by 2nd & 3rd year GSU law students. "The fall issue features an annual legislative review known as the Peach Sheets."
Criminal Justice Review by Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

"...focuses on all aspects of crime and the justice system and can feature local, state, or national concerns."

Here are two good places for locating law review articles:

HeinOnline
Offers four major library collections: the Law Journal Library, the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. Note: Access is provided by the Georgia State University College of Law Library.
Westlaw Campus Research
A comprehensive database of legal materials including federal and state statutes, codes, regulations, and case law materials. Includes articles from legal journals, detailed company and financial data, as well as state, national, and international journals and newspapers.

List of Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts
Content covers the subjects of criminal justice, criminal law and procedure, corrections and prisons, police and policing, criminal investigation, forensic sciences and investigation, history of crime, substance abuse and addiction, probation and parole, and criminology.
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Criminal Justice Database
A database of US and international criminal justice journals, supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, litigation, and crime trends. It includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, and crime blogs.
Criminology: A SAGE Full Text Collection
This collection includes the full text of 24 journals published by SAGE and participating societies and up to 87 years of backfiles. It covers subjects such as criminal justice, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, corrections, penology, policing, forensic psychology, and family and domestic violence.
HeinOnline
Offers four major library collections: the Law Journal Library, the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. Note: Access is provided by the Georgia State University College of Law Library.
Georgia Legislative Documents
Provides access to legislative resouces such as the Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, the House of Representatives Journals, and the Senate Journals from the late 1700s to the 1990s.
Legal Source
Providing indexing and full-text coverage of the most respected scholarly law journals, Legal Source is the authoritative database for current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. It is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals and others involved with the law.
Legislative Insight
A Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. Note: Access is provided by the Georgia State University College of Law Library.
Proquest Legislative Insight
ProQuest legislative histories are comprised of fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. Each history includes the full text of the public law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law.
Westlaw Campus Research
A comprehensive database of legal materials including federal and state statutes, codes, regulations, and case law materials. Includes articles from legal journals, detailed company and financial data, as well as state, national, and international journals and newspapers.