LibGuides: Criminology: Statistics and Websites

Open Access Repositories

The resources below are freely available databases that may include a variety of material: preprint (draft or preliminary) versions of articles, conference papers and/or posters, book chapters, white papers, and more. These repositories help speed up dissemination and enhance discoverability and access to early-stage scholarship across disciplines.

It is important to note that these materials have likely not been edited or benefited from the pivotal role of peer-review, which validates and improves the quality of final published journal articles.

Criminal Justice Research Network (CJRN)
Open access repository for research on aspects of the criminal justice system – police, criminal courts, and corrections – as well as broader research in criminology.
CrimRxiv
Open access repository for criminological research.
LawArXiv
Static repository of legal scholarship preprints.
Legal Scholarship Network (LRN)
Repository for scholarship in law and topics that impact law, such as legal education, legal research, and legal writing.
Race and Social Inequity Hub
Open access repository includes early-stage research related to systemic racism, racial violence, law enforcement reform, and social justice movements.
SocArXiv
SocArXiv, open archive of the social sciences, provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code.
Sociology Research Network (SociologyRN)
Open access preprint server that provides a venue for sociology scholarship.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a huge open-access repository for scholarly papers in law, the social sciences, business, and some other disciplines. Hundreds of thousands of authors have posted abstracts and papers. SSRN has over 750,000 abstracts—and most of the papers are available for free download (PDF).