SOCIAL SCIENCE CONNECTIONS |
For Criminal Justice Undergraduate and Graduate Students
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General Criminal Justice Information |
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LINKSFrom Oxford University Press, sources in criminological theory, including links to specific scholars and studies. Lots of links to cj pages at universities, distance software, and more, from Tom O'connor. If you are thinking about cj distance ed, go here. DATA SOURCES SOURCEBOOK of Criminal Justice Statistics. Information on the system, crime, and public opinion. This is the PREMIER compilation of indicators about crime and criminal justice. 151,000 abstracts from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Documents, books, reports, and evaluations. If you are searching for the results of federally funded studies, look here. NIJ is the main research organization in the field. You can search for recent reports BJS reports on crime and criminal justice facts. What is the sequence of events in the criminal justice system? The Public Agenda Crime Facts The Public Agenda provides facts and opinions from recent surveys to frame debate about issues. Their discussion about crime is thoughtful, data driven, and with implications for policy Inter-university Consortium for Social and Political Research ICPSR is a data archive for large, funded datasets in social and political science Social Sciences Data Library at Temple University INTERESTING Sources for famous "crime stories" - makes for good reading, cases seem to be pretty well supported with references at the end of each story. Suggested by Mr. Jody Kirk, a former undergraduate here at Temple. Pretty Graphic in places |
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Specific Sites For Particular Crimes or Types of Crimes |
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| State Courts | National Center on State Courts: www.courtstatistics.org |
| Hate Crime |
Anti-defamation
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| Campus Crime | CAMPUS CRIME. If you are a student, you spend time on campus. Learn about campus crime issues and statistics. |
| ID Theft | Coping with identity theft |
| Investigating Violent Crime | Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors work on causes of violence |
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DUI |
DUI offenders under supervision. Provides data on offenders in jail, in prison, or on probation for driving while intoxicated.The information was gathered from the 1995 Survey of Adults on Probation, the 1996 Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, and the 1997 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities. Between 1990 and 1997 the number of arrests for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs decreased 18%, while the number of licensed drivers increased nearly 15%. Includes data sets as well. |
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Guns |
BATF Youth Gun
Crime Interdiction Initiative |
| DUI and Guns |
Guns
and Drunk Driving WEBLIOGRAPHY: Links created by RBT and Todd Anderson but not updated in a while! |
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Tools Specifically for Undergraduate and Graduate Students |
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Evaluating Web Sources |
how to cite references you got from the web WWW Virtual Library's Evaluation of Information Resources. This is a big list; lots here that looks real interesting. Alastair Smith's criteria look very good FromNowOn. FNO is an an educational technology journal, has a page on evaluating web sources. Starts with some definitions, give you links to other thoughts on gauging information. Questions from librarians at VCU on evaluating sources General tips on web source searching ICYouSee Guide to Critical thinking About What you See on the Web Internet Detective . This is really a tutorial or a short course on how to evaluate web information. You will need to register to access the site. It looks thorough. Brought to my attention by Steve Smith |
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Pre-law & Legal Research |
Legal research meta-links is EXTREMELY useful is you are researching legal opinions LAW SCHOOL FINDER Find out what law schools you can get into based on your GPA and your LSAT score Laws in Pennsylvania Main List of the Pennsylvania Code Consolidated statutes for criminal violations. You will find "classes of offenses" under General Provisions. You will find odd-type laws, e.g., about weapons on school grounds, under Inchoate Crimes. Scroll down and you will find definitions for things like murder, assault, abortion and the like (Chapter 23 and down). Also look under Chapter 61 for firearms statutes |
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TRULY RANDOM |
Generate a random sample of numbers with RANDOMIZER.ORG |
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State and local government |
Listing of all state and local government web sites. |
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Survey Data Sources |
Princeton
Survey Center
This contains links to archives of public opinion data; you can download these and do your own analyses, or look at questionnaires, or get survey frequencies. General Social Survey - Main
Learn about what Americans have been thinking since 1972. Search by words for public opinion poll results; download data sets |
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Professional
Organizations
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American
Society of Criminology One of the two main
professional organizations serving criminologists and criminal
justice scholars
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| Tips |
Ralph's
Rules of Presenting Social Science Papers at Conferences
Ralph's thoughts on putting empirical research papers together for journal submission |
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CJ @ TU |
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| Competencies | Undergraduate competencies in Introduction to Criminal Justice |
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Organizations
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American
Society of Criminology One of the two main
professional organizations serving criminologists and criminal
justice scholars |
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Environmental Justice |
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| Environmental justice, environmental studies, sprawl |
BBC News Series: The Planet Under Pressure http://www.temple.edu/env-stud/ Environmental studies at Temple
A general set of environmental links You can use ENVIROMAPPER to find out about nearby toxic waste sites or emitters Environmental Problems (including sprawl) , Problem Maps, Environmental Attitudes Sprawl and controlled growth links
Compiled by Dr. Rob Mason, Director,
Environmental Studies Program, Temple University
Meuser's maps of environmental problems
and more; you can link to MANY mappable databases
Environmental Justice, Environmental Crimes
Environmental
Justice Links from the South Central
Oklahoma Environmental Justice Resource Center |
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Comments on Distance Education |
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Higher education is currently grappling with distance education. It proves to be an extremely complex issue. Many laud the advantages it will bring, many caution against expecting too much from it, and some see in it the demise of higher education and the classroom experience as we know it. David Noble, a historian at York University in Canada is one of the most outspoken critics of distance education. Links to four of his articles appear below.
Digital Diploma Mills,
Part I The Automation of Higher Education |
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