Criminology and Policing: Home

For UK official data see the latest crime statistics from the Home office via the ONS website.

See the annual crime survey data for information on the experiences of individuals.

At a local level, find out about crime in a certain area (England and Wales) and compare it with national averages on the police website.

Up to date figures on crime rates across the EU as a whole for total crime levels and different crimes.

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains nearly 500,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for over 315 magazines and journals.

PsycINFO is an abstract database that provides systematic coverage of the psychological literature from the 1800s to the present. The database also includes records from the 1600s and 1700s.

Offers full-text articles for journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.

A curated list of free open access Criminology books.

Scopus is a database of abstracts and citations for scholarly journal articles. It covers nearly 18,000 international journal titles in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields. Scopus also offers author profiles which cover affiliations, number of publications and their bibliographic data, references and details on the number of citations each published document has received.

Policy Commons is a one-stop hub providing access to nearly 2.5 million public policy documents from IGOs, NGOs, think tanks and research centres.

A new free online service from the British Library offering a single point of access to the BL's vast print and digital collections on social welfare and social policy. Items not available in full text online can be ordered by interlibrary loan.

The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions in Crime & Justice, Education, International Development, and Social Welfare.

A unified point of access to data from ESDS, Census Programme, Secure Data Service and others which makes it the UK's largest collection of digital social research data. Includes Census data from 1971 to 2011.

The UK's largest collection of digital research data in the social sciences and humanities, including data from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the National Archive.

The Youth Justice Board’s library of resources, materials and information which is now available online, though not all resources are available in full text.

A large collection of reference works e.g. language dictionaries, subject dictionaries, encyclopedias published by Oxford University Press. A good place to start for a definition, or for general overviews of many topics.

Provides the full text of articles in daily and Sunday newspapers published in the U.K. as well as a number of trade publications.

Our search engine for finding print and online resources

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Guide to Library and IT services, in the University-wide induction resource for new students.

Some definitions of words we use in Computing & Library Services

A guide to using artificial intelligence (AI) in your academic studies.

A guide to the APA 7th style, which is the official University referencing standard

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Guide to using ebooks at the University of Huddersfield

Guide to newspaper resources online

How to request items not held at our University Library

Form to request Library purchases a book not already in stock

How to visit other libraries, including using the SCONUL scheme