Crime & Delinquency: SOC2063: Finding Scholarly Articles

EBSCOhost is the primary source for magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journal articles.

There are a variety of individual databases within EBSCOhost.  For this assignment, the following databases (in order by relevance) are recommended:

• Academic Search Premier
• Sociological Collection
• Masterfile Premier

These databases may be searched simultaneously.  See the box below for more information on searching EBSCOhost.

Not sure how to use EBSCOhost? Use the following tutorials to help you get you started.

Consider the following tutorials for additional tips and tricks on using EBSCOhost databases.

EBSCOhost offers access to articles from magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals.  For this assignment, you'll want to focus on scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.

To narrow your results to only scholarly peer-reviewed journals, complete a search, and on the results page check the Peer Reviewed box (sometimes labeled "Scholarly.")

Caution: This will limit your results to peer-reviewed journals.  Some journals may publish non-peer reviewed items, such as letters to the editor, book reviews, or other items that haven't gone through the peer review process.  Refer to the What is a scholarly article? tab of this guide for help determining if your article is peer-reviewed.

Below is a list of peer reviewed journals in EBSCOhost that may be useful for this assignment.  You are not limited to these journals, but they are excellenct sources.