Articles
Articles, including popular, scholarly, and scholarly-peer reviewed from periodicals are great for exploring a narrower, particular aspect of your topic. Each type of article can be found through our online library databases and offer a different sort of view, depending on there purpose.
To find articles use the pull down tab below to select one of the periodical databases for this class. Once the database is open, search for your topic by keyword, refine your results, capture relevant entries, and finally, be sure to enter in the citation information into Noodletools or other citing tool.
Featured Articles
The Public's Increasing Punitiveness and Its Influence on Mass Incarceration in the United States.Publication Date: 2014Publication: American Journal of Political Science (Journal)
Database: Academic Search Ultimate
Inmates Run This Bitch by Publication Date: July/August 2016Publication: Mother Jones (Magazine)
Database: Academic Search Ultimate
Recommended Databases
Find articles with these recommended Databases:
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window This database includes over 10,000 peer-reviewed scholarly journals and magazines covering a range of academic disciplines and current issues. Suitable for most research projects.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window Contains articles from over a thousand scholarly journals covering a wide range of subjects in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Full text articles are available from each journal starting from its first issue (sometimes going back over 100 years) until five years ago. JSTOR does not contain recently published articles. LPC's subscription includes 16 of JSTOR’s multi-disciplinary collections: Arts & Sciences I - XV and Life Sciences.
- Sociology Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window Sociology Source Ultimate provides peer-reviewed, full-text journals on social behavior and interaction. Topics range from gender identity, marriage and family, to demographics, political sociology, religion and socio-cultural anthropology.
- PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window A source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 60 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA).
- Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window Over 680 scholarly journals in the political sciences including comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations, and political theory.
- New York Times This link opens in a new window
- US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window US Major Dailies provides access to the five most respected US national and regional newspapers, including The New York Times and Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. The content is available by 8am each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1980.
Sample Search Terms:
"school to prison pipeline"
incarceration AND racism
"mental illness" and prison
"women prisoners"
"juvenile offenders"
"prison conditions"
"prison conditions" AND California
"prison reform"