Subject guides: Criminal Law: Databases

International Databases

Hein Online
Hein Online provides access to international journals and international law libraries.

Lexis Advance (US & International)
Full text legislation, caselaw, journal articles from the U.S., but including Europe, U.K and Australasia

Proquest 5000
Multiple databases covering disciplines within the Social Sciences. Also includes digitised collections of key US newspapers, dissertations & theses.
PsychInfo via OvidSP (1806 to present)
Covers psychology: social, clinical, cognitive and neuropsychology; psychiatry, sociology, anthropology and education.
Sociological Abstracts
References articles, conference papers, books and web resources on sociology, social policy and other related social science disciplines. Useful for locating peer reviewed journal articles in Sociology

Westlaw (International)
Full text legislation, caselaw and journal articles from the U.S. and other jurisdictions (including Europe, U.K and Australasia)

User Guides

AGIS Plus Text : Attorney General's Information Service
(1975 - present)
References journal articles, government documents, publications from non profit organizations and law reform commissions in Australia, NZ and Asia-Pacific. Full-text for selected publications from 1999.
CINCH - ATSIS via Informit Online
Covers all aspects of crime and criminal justice relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, including corrections, crime, crime prevention, criminal law, criminology, juvenile justice, law enforcement, police and victims of crime. Coverage from 1968 onwards.
CINCH - Australian Criminology Database via Informit Online
Indexes and abstracts articles from Australian and New Zealand published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice from 1968 onwards.
CINCH - Health: Health Issues in Criminal Justice via Informit Online
Covers mental health, medical and medicolegal issues, drugs and alcohol, suicide, HIV/AIDS, corrections health, euthanasia, and occupational health and safety.
Factiva.com
Full-text news, commentary, pictures and media transcripts from Australian and overseas media sources.
For Australian news sources, the Fairfax publications archive includes The Sydney Morning Herald 1986+, Australian Financial Review 1987+, BRW 1989+, and the News Limited archive includes The Australian 1996+.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches scholarly information on the internet but much of the material it finds is not freely available without a subscription. By using the links to Google Scholar on the Library website, and logging in to Remote Access when you are off-campus, you will be able to access the full text of articles in journals to which the Library subscribes.

Informit Legal Journal Index Library
The Informit databases collections include criminology, family law, current affairs via APAIS. Also includes AFPD - Australian federal police Digest. Various Informit databases can be searched concurrently.

Westlaw AU
Provides access to a collection of Australian legal materials, including law reports, journals and loose-leaf titles. Includes the case citator Firstpoint and Laws of Australia.

Terms & conditions

Lexis Advance
Access cases, legal commentary, journals, CaseBase (case citator), the Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary and Halsbury's Laws of Australia (legal encyclopaedia).
CCH Online
This database includes full text of many loose-leaf services published by CCH. Full text of commentary, case law and legislation from CCH Australia Ltd. Covers many legal practice areas arranged by subject heading.