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You can access a range of sources related to Police Foundations topics on this guide. If you don't know where to start, try searching the recommended databases for books, articles, and videos. Check out the Research Help page to learn how to build database searches as well as the Citation Help page for APA Style support.

Policing

Abnormal Psychology: An Integrative Approach

Health and Fitness for Law Enforcement in Canada

Canadian Law: An Introduction

Foundations of Criminal and Civil Law in Canada

Key Concepts in Crime and Society

Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime

Academic Writing and Referencing for Your Policing Degree

Crime in Canadian Context

Print Books

While most of our content is online, you may find it helpful to use one of our print books, DVDs and reference works. Printed materials are organized by call number, which corresponds to a subject area. The call number can be found on the spine of the book. Browse these call number areas for relevant material:

HV 551.2-639 - Emergency management.
HV 6001-7220.5 - Criminology.
HV6035-6197 - Criminal anthropology.
HV 6251-6773.55 - Crimes and offenses.
HV 7231-9960 - Criminal justice administration.
HV7551-8280.7 - Police. Detectives. Constabulary.
KE - Canadian Law.
KB 3000-3034 - Police and public safety.

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Selected Databases

Search this database list for resources like encyclopedias, videos, and electronic journals:

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Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
Proquest
U.S. and international criminal justice journals. Part of the ProQuest Central Collection.
Permitted Uses
Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window
Gale
Over 360 Journals covering U.S. and International corrections, forensics, criminal law and more.
Permitted Uses
NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service This link opens in a new window
Full-text and abstracts of publications by agencies assiciated with the U.S. Dept. of Justice covering all areas of law. Includes Canadian content. Open to the public.
Permitted Uses
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
EBSCO
Over 100 full-text journals covering the field of psychology.
Permitted Uses
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
EBSCO
Over 860 full-text journals dating back to 1908, full-text for more than 850 books, as well as selected conference papers from the field of sociology.
Permitted Uses

CanLII: Canadian Legal Information Institute This link opens in a new window
Canadian federal and provincial legislation and cases.
Permitted Uses
E-Laws This link opens in a new window
Ontario Government
Ontario's statutes and regulations, both consolidated and source law. Permitted Uses
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
International law journals and key legal reference texts, such as Canada Supreme Court Reports, and Revised Statutes of Canada.
Permitted Uses
Lexis Advance Quicklaw This link opens in a new window
Access to Canadian legislation, court cases, tribunals, arbitration decisions, and legal journals. Funded by The Law Foundation of Ontario.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Contains over 15,000 news, legal and business sources. Coverage includes news and current events, government, business, medical, legal and general reference.
Permitted Uses

Canada Commons This link opens in a new window
Canadian Electronic Library
Canadian e-books, government documents, and grey literature, primarily on health, government, and public policy from Canadian Public Documents Collection. Includes the Canadian Public Policy Collection and the Canadian Health Research Collection.
Formerly called desLibris.
Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Proquest
Thousands of downloadable e-book titles covering a wide range of all academic disciplines. Includes the College Complete Collection, made available by the Colleges eBook Consortium Project.
Note: Use Firefox, Chrome or Safari. Edge is not supported by this database. Number of permitted users varies by title. Permitted Uses
EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
EBSCO
Over 250,000 ebooks. Multidisciplinary.
Note:Number of concurrent users varies by title. Download select titles for 3 days.Permitted Uses

Statista This link opens in a new window
Access to data from over 18,000 sources including industry reports, dossiers, and statistics, including Statistics Canada. Download images, PPT slides, Excel files and more.
Permitted Uses
Statistics Canada This link opens in a new window
Provides statistical information and analysis about Canada’s economic and social structure. Open to the public.
Permitted Uses

Britannica Online This link opens in a new window
Encyclopaedia Britannica
The online Encyclopedia Britannica. Includes images, maps, videos, and more.
Permitted Uses
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo
Over 600 Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and quotations books, as well as images, audio files and videos. Multidisciplinary.
Permitted Uses

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Infobase
Thousands of online videos, archival films and newsreels. Multidisciplinary. See the Films on Demand Guide for details and permitted uses.
Permitted Uses
LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window
LinkedIn
Online training database containing access to thousands of high-quality instructional videos on a broad range of topics in the areas of computer software, business skills, design concepts, programming, photography, education, animation and more.
See LinkedIn Learning Guide for technical details.
NFB Education: National Film Board of Canada This link opens in a new window
National Film Board of Canada’s online video database. Multidisciplinary.
For faculty access, please submit a ticket to the Library Helpdesk. See the NFB Guide for technical details.
Permitted Uses

Journal Spotlight

A select list of journals for the Police Foundations program are highlighted below. Refer to the eJournal Portal to browse these publications, as well as many others, by title, keyword, and topic.

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