SOCIAL SCIENCE CONNECTIONS |
For Criminal Justice Undergraduate and Graduate Students
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C J Info General |
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LINKS
This link will take you to the Cecil Greek home page, one of the best collections of criminal justice sites around. This is THE BIG DADDY. Lots of links to cj pages at universities, distance software, and more, from Tom O'connor, North Carolina Wesleyan College. I like this a lot. If you are thinking about cj distance ed, go here. Criminal Justice Megalinks: more comprehensive THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARILY COMPREHENSIVE SITE with ALL kinds of great links - programs, research, legal, you name it! 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. From 1987 to 2003 NIJ interviewed and collected urine samples from arrestees in a number of cities to gauge drug use among this population. Philadelphia was one of their data collection sites. NIJ is the main research organization in the field. You can search for recent reports BJS reports on crime facts. A report on homicide trends is pretty interesting
Crime
trends - see some charts
(and click on CRIME TRENDS). For a File -- pdf
version (page down and click on Acrobat File - you will need
Adobe Acrobat reader) -- that also has information about system functioning 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
League |
| 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 |
Gun
Crime among 18-20 year old (may take a
while to load)
BATF Youth Gun
Crime Interdiction Initiative |
| DUI and Guns |
Guns
and Drunk Driving WEBLIOGRAPHY: Links created by RBT and Todd Anderson |
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Tools Specifically for Undergraduate and Graduate Students |
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Evaluating Web Sources |
how
to evaluate 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 |
Virtual
Law Library at Indiana University: list of links.
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 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Our second main professional organization in criminal justice. American Sociological Association Eastern Sociological Society |
| 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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Temple University Criminal Justice |
Temple University's Department of Criminal Justice
Current
Graduate Handbook for the Master's and Doctoral Programs of the
Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University. NOTE:
By clicking on the site
link you agree to indemnify any employees of Temple University for
any misunderstandings that may arise from your perusal of this
material, or for any inaccuracies contained therein. |
| Competencies | Undergraduate competencies in Introduction to Criminal Justice |
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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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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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