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CLJ 515: Research Methods in Crime, Law, and Justice

 

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Course Info

Course Name:
  CLJ 515: Research Methods in Crime, Law, and Justice
Semester:
  Spring
Campus:
  University Park (UP)
Instructor:
  Ruback

   

Cite Your Work

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Citation Styles
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Manage your citations
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Encylopedias

  • Gale Virtual Reference Library — an all-purpose collection of encyclopedias, including several on criminal justice and law. A general starting point for research.

  • American Jurisprudence — an authoritative, in-depth legal encyclopedia. Access this online through LexisNexis Academic. Click US Legal, then Legal Reference.

  • Pennsylvania Law Encyclopedia. — similar to American Jurisprudence but focused on Pennsylvania law. Available in print in the Social Sciences Library Reference Collection.
    Call number: KFP65.P3

Journals and Law Reviews

  • LionSearch — searches The CAT (Penn State Libraries' online catalog) and many (though not all) of the Libraries' subscription databases.

 

Search Indexes

Though you will find some full-text results, these databases search indexes and abstracts - they do not search the full text:

  • Criminal Justice Abstracts — provides abstracts of articles from the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, as well as books and reports from government and nongovernmental agencies.

  • Index to Legal Periodiicals and Books Full Text — indexes legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, and bar association publications from 1918 to the present.

  • LegalTrac — a database for research in case law, government regulations, the practice of law, statutes, taxation, and international law.

 

Search Full Text

  • LexisNexis Academic — provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Court cases and statutes from all federal and state jurisdictions are included.

  • HeinOnline — HeinOnline is a full-text research collection providing access to the full text of U.S., foreign, and international legal research resources.

 

Case Law