Video #3: Keyword Searching
Video #4: How to Use the Library Databases
Databases
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ProQuest CentralArticles on any subject. This is a good place to start.
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Criminal JusticeArticles on criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law.
How do I Know This is a Good Article?
Evaluate your information/article:
Does the information answer your original questions?
Is the information accurate?
What is fact and what is opinion?
Is the information current?
What is the point of view of the author or publisher? What is your point of view?
Ask yourself the questions: Who, What, Where, When, Why about each piece of information that you find.
Video #5: Finding Statistics From the Web Sites on the Table
Websites with Statistics on Race, Gender, Ethnicity and Socio-Economic Status
To use this table, first go to your topic of arrests, bail or sentencing/incarceration. Next, go down the column on the left and find the group that you are studying: race, ethnicity, sex, socio-economic class. As an example, if I am looking at the effects of bail on women, I would look down the bail column until I got to the sex category. There I would see two links to a source of statistics on bail and sex.
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Demographics |
Arrests |
Bail |
Sentencing Incarceration |
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Race |
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book |
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OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book
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Ethnicity |
OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book |
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Sex |
OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book |
OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book
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Socio-economic |