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Criminal Justice

Use this guide to find resources for criminal justice courses.

Find News and Current Events

It may be helpful to find news coverage of current events for your research topics and assignments. Use the library's databases to find newspaper coverage from many local and national newspapers.

Note: You may find news articles online and via Google, but will often run into a paywall -- the ability to only see a few articles. You will have access to more articles in the library's databases. If you're having trouble finding a specific article, reach out to a librarian and we'll be happy to help you!

Tips for Finding News in Databases

Searching for newspaper articles in library databases is different from looking at news websites. 

Library databases contain the "paper of record," -- which may differ from the articles you see on the newspapers' websites. 

If you see an article online and want to find the full text in the library, you may need to search multiple ways:

  • Article title
  • Article author
  • Browse by date
  • Look at articles from several dates

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