Researching Mass Incarceration and Prison Abolition: BLS Database Trial: Sage Journals

BLS Library subscribes to selected Sage journals through Sage Publishing (examples: Criminal Justice Review, International Criminal Justice Review, and Journal of Criminal Law).  BLS Library also provides content (particularly older articles) from selected Sage journals in HeinOnline's Law Journal Library.  But Sage publishes additional journals. 

Until March 19, 2024, BLS patrons have trial access to content in the Sage journal collections below.

Tip:  Use main screen search box (at top of screen) in a Sage collection to search all journals in the collection. 

• Sage Behavioral Aspects in Criminology Package
• Sage Criminal Justice Package
• Sage Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Theoretical Approaches Package
• Sage European Law Package
  • Includes New Journal of European Criminal Law.
• Sage International Law Package
  • Includes International Journal of Discrimination and the Law and Prison Journal.
    • BLS students can search for articles such as: Michael Gibson-Light, The Ghosts Inside: The Historic Struggle to Reclassify Prison Labor, 1967-1979, 103 Prison J. 489 (2023), which discusses "the rise of the [California-based] Prisoners Union...[t]hrough qualitative analysis of archival materials."
• Sage Legal Review Package
  • Includes Critical Social Policy, ILR Review: The Journal of Work and Policy, Labor Studies Journal, and Social & Legal Studies.
• Sage Medical/Legal [Journal] Package
• Sage Political, Social, and International Relations Package
  • Includes Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.  These volumes focus on specific topics, for example:
    • Vol. 701 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. (2022): From Supervision to Opportunity: Reimagining Probation and Parole.