- Academic Search Premier
the world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database and still a great place to search for scholarly articles on domestic violence.
Try keyword searching for “domestic violence” AND name of country
Try subject headings, including “family violence,” “abused women,” “violence against women-crimes against,” “partner violence,” “marital violence,” “wife abuse,” “rape in marriage,” “abused wives,” and “uxoricide.”
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- Contemporary Women's Issues
This one can be a less user-friendly. Try saving this database ‘till the end of your database searching.
Try keyword searching for “domestic violence” AND name of country
Try the subject heading “domestic violence”
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- Criminal Justice Periodicals Index
I was pleasantly surprised by the great resources I found in this database thanks to journals like Women & Criminal Justice, Journal of Family Violence, Violence Against Women, and Journal of Interpersonal Violence being indexed here.
Try keyword searching for “domestic violence” and name of country or try a broader search for just “domestic violence”
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- Criminology
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- eHRAF Collection of Ethnography
A cross-cultural database that contains information on all aspects of cultural and social life. Try clicking on Browse then Browse cultures by region. Each culture summary includes an especially useful Marriage and Family section.
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- International Security and Counter Terrorism Reference Center
Useful resource for scholarly articles and World News Connection (a valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources) reports on international domestic violence.
Try keyword searching “domestic violence” AND country name
Also a great resource for country profiles and reports. Click on Publications. Select Subject and Description and then type in the name of your country.
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- Project MUSE
Collection of electronic scholarly journals in the humanities and the social sciences.
Try keyword searching for “domestic violence” and country name
Try some of the following subject headings:
Women’s rights - country name
Family violence - law and legislation - country name
Women - country name - social conditions
Human rights advocacy - country name
Abused women—legal status, laws, etc.—country name
Abused women—services for—country name
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- Social Sciences Citation Index
World’s leading scholarly social sciences journals.
Click on General Search.
Try keyword searching “domestic violence” AND country name
Also try “wife abuse” in this database
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