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Selected resources
Criminal Justice Abstracts
Important bibliographic database for criminal justice and criminology research. It provides indexing and abstracts for hundreds of journals covering all related subjects, including forensic sciences, corrections, policing, criminal law and investigation.
Web of Science
An interdisciplinary international database that covers many fields, including social sciences. Contains references to peer-reviewed articles, books and much more. Here you can find literature in both criminology and sociology of law.
Lovdata Pro
Contains Norwegian legal sources in full text, including laws, preparatory work, court decisions and EEA regulations. Allows you to write comments and highlight in the documents, make references between them, and save them in your own folders.
HeinOnline
American and international literature on law, sociology of law and criminology. It is possible to limit to and search the sub-base "Criminal Justice and Criminology".
Sage research methods online
Literature on many different scientific methods. UiO has access to books, podcasts and encyclopedias.
JSTOR
Contains full-text editions of selected journals in most disciplines (including social sciences), often from the first editions.
DUO
Digital publications from UiO, including master theses.
Scopus
An interdisciplinary international database with abstracts and references to peer-reviewed articles, books and conference papers.
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New books in the library
New books
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Krisehåndtering i et organisasjonsperspektiv politi-innsatsen 22. juli
Renå, Helge (Cappelen Damm akademisk, 2022)Received in the library 18 November.
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Korruption, intressekonflikter, maktmissbruk och maktfullkomlighet
Sandgren, Claes (Jure Förlag, 2022)Received in the library 11 November.
New e-books
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Perspektiven der Systemforschung
(Duncker & Humblot, 1999)Series: Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik ; Band 268.E-book activated 23 November.
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Climate Protection and Environmental Interests in Renewable Energy Law : Perspectives from Brazil and Germany
Galbiatti Silveira, Paula (Springer International Publishing AG, 2022)E-book activated 16 November.
Suggest a purchase
You are welcome to suggest additions to our collection (books, journals etc).
Other online resources
News and media databases
- Atekst
Norwegian newspapers and media sources - Apply for access (In Norwegian). - Factiva
A large international news database. - Keesing`s World News Archives
"40 years of fulltext international news reports", global news from the world press. Fulltext. - Westlaw International
News from US, European Union, Great Britain and more. Fulltext.
Statistics and datasets
- Criminal statistics - from Statistics Norway
- UNdata
Several databases ranked by topic, i.a. Intentional homicides and other crimes. You can also search for data delimited on country. - Drugs Crime and Terrorism - United Nations iLibrary
- NSD
Norwegian national archive and center for research data. - Statistics, datasets and online resources – from the Department of Political Science
Podcasts
- Kriminologene
Norwegian podcast with host Thomas Ugelvik, who interviews criminologists about their own and others research.
Search,write, referencing
UiOs academic writing centre
Support for your PhD
To achieve your research goals