The following databases are suggested starting points for research in Criminology. To access a database off-campus, use your SMU email and password to login. View a full list of the library's databases on the A-Z Databases webpage.
Full-text articles on current affairs and business issues from Canadian periodicals and news sources.
Legal information database that provides access to Canadian court decisions, legislation, and legal commentary.
Over 192 million pages of traditional legal materials, historical, governmental, and political documents, legislative debates, and more. Saint Mary's is subscribed to the Academic Canada Collection only.
Access to more than 12 million journal articles, books images, and primary sources in the arts and social sciences.
Over 17,000 legal, business, and news sources in several languages. Covers current events and legal cases.
Key index to scholarship in psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines.
Multi-disciplinary database with more than 1,100 journals, over 200 gold open access journals, and 400 society partners.
Key index for scholarship in sociology and related disciplines. Links to full-text in other databases.
Other useful databases:
Multi-disciplinary database of full-text articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers.
Over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews, and selected chapters dating back to 1951.
Full-text access to over 2000 journals covering the physical sciences, engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Over 1,700 journals in the humanities and social sciences. Over 700 journals in science and technology.
Contains three linked databases indexing sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities scholarly articles.
CANSIM is Statistics Canada's key socio-economic database. Provides statistics on various subjects, such as population and demography, and income, labour, and business performance.
Canadian Census and NHS data available to download for many levels of geography.
Here is a selection of Criminology journals available in the library. You can also look up journal titles in the Journals A to Z list.
Do you have a citation to an article? Check our Journal titles A-Z list to see if it is available at the Library.
Also known as peer-reviewed journals and academic journals. Many scholarly journals are peer-reviewed. If a scholarly journal is peer-reviewed, it means that the articles contained within the publication have been anonymously reviewed and evaluated by scholars in the field prior to publication. This process ensures that the quality of the research presented is high.
You can establish if a journal is peer-reviewed by looking at the guidelines for article submission (often found in the front or back of the issue), or by consulting the journal's website for this information. The Library's Research Help desk can also help you identify peer-reviewed journals and articles.