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CJS-1001/4001 Criminal Justice Research

Researching the Court Case

Nexis Uni

Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
  • Access discipline-focused pages with curated news, featured publications and relevant court cases for Political Science, Business and Criminal Justice majors
  • Use guided search forms to jumpstart research
  • Conduct a single search across all content or narrow the focus by content type


HeinOnline Academic


Law Journals or Law Reviews in HeinOnline
HeinOnline's Law Journal Library contains more than 2,700 academic and commercially-published periodicals. Subjects covered include criminal justice, political science, technology, human rights, and more. Coverage for all journals is from inception and goes through the most currently published content allowed based on contracts with publishers. About 90% of journals are available through the current issue or volume.

Case Law in HeinOnline
The federal case coverage includes the judicial opinions of the Supreme Court (1745-present).

Court Listener's RECAP Archive

The RECAP Archive is a searchable collection of millions of PACER documents and dockets that were gathered using our RECAP Extensions for Firefox and Chrome. PACER is the government-run system where nearly every legal document is filed from federal cases. The archive also includes every free PACER opinion. Using this archive, you can finally search and download millions of PACER documents, including those that were originally scanned PDFs.

Court Listener

CourtListener is a free legal research website containing millions of legal opinions from federal and state courts. With CourtListener, lawyers, journalists, academics, and the public can research an important case, stay up to date with new opinions as they are filed, or do deep analysis using our raw data.



Looking up Circuit Court Numbers by Location

Map of the geographic boundaries of the various United States Courts of Appeals and United States District Courts.
Available from UScourts.gov.
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