Library Guides: Capital Punishment: Databases

Article Databases

Opposing Viewpoints (articles, essays, statistics & more)

Opposing Viewpoints provides access to articles that provide information for and against a variety of topics. Try searching your desired topics to browse the different viewpoints and information available.
Academic Search Complete

This resource provides access to thousands of full-text journals and periodicals. Try searching for your desired search terms to see what comes up. If you find an article to which we do not have full-text access, try clicking "Find It WIU Libraries" to see if it is available in another database we have access to. If not, you can request it through an inter-library loan request.
InfoTrac (Expanded Academic Index)

Try using InfoTrac to search your desired terms and find other terms that may relate to the topic, or subdivisions of those terms.

CQ Researcher Online Database This link opens in a new window
Single-themed, 12,000-word reports (background, stats, assessment, bibliographies). Topics include health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, environment, technology, economy
Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window
270 periodicals; criminology, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, criminal justice
Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window
250 periodicals;criminology, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, criminal justice
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes/abstracts 1,400+ periodicals; also dissertation and book review citations
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Sociological Abstracts offers access to the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides in-depth and non-evaluative abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800 serial publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. The database backfile dates to 1952.