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SSC 122 - Emerging Issues
in Justice
Books
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Books
- to find broad information
on a topic, or the history of a given topic, try the book collection.
This information may not the most up to date, but should give you a good
sense of the "big picture." To look up books on a given topic,
go to the library catalog:
http://cmars.cwmars.org/search~S38/
Once you're in
the library catalog depending on your topic, try keyword searches
like:
- critical thinking
- sociological jurisprudence
- criminal justice system
- united states constitution
- punishment
- civil liberties
- terrorism
- victims rights
- restorative justice
- computer* and crime
- prison*
Remember, if you
do locate a book which contains good information on your topic, see if
there are bibliographies in the book, which list other sources like journal
articles.
Periodical
Indexes/Databases -
to find the most current information on a topic, try journal or newspaper
articles. In order to locate them, you must use an index. Just like in
the back of a book there is an index which tells you what page to look
at in the book, there are indexes to journals and newspapers which tell
you which issue and page to look at in the journal. These indexes
used to be just available in print but are now available online as well.
Some online indexes which you should use in your work would be:
- Expanded Academic
ASAP
- Academic Search
Premier
- LexisNexis
- PAIS (see a Librarian
for help with this FirstSearch database)
These are all available through the library's
databases page:
http://www.mwcc.mass.edu/library/login
Just select the appropriate
access - either on-campus (from anywhere at MWCC) or off-campus (if you're
working from home), then find these online indexes in the alphabetical
database listing.
Once in these databases,
try keyword searches such as those
suggested above for the library catalog. You can also try more specific
or precise searching in the periodical databases such as:
- civil liberties and terrorism
- freedom and national security
- technology and criminal justice
- (computers or technology) and privacy
- incarceration and urban
Websites
- To supplement your investigation, but
not to substitute for information you find in journals and books.
Critical
Thinking:
Critical
Thinking Consortium- http://www.criticalthinking.org/
Critical
Thinking on the Web: A Directory of Quality Online Resources -
http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/reason/critical/
A searchable directory on many topics related to critical thinking, including
argument mapping, cognitive biases, critical reading, fallacies, and more.
From The University of Melbourne.
Sociological
Jurisprudence:
Peter
McWilliams' book Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual
Crimes in Our Free Country
Transcript
of "Sex, Drugs and Consenting Adults"
Criminal
Justice:
360degrees:
Perspectives on the US Criminal Justice System - http://www.360degrees.org/
A collaboration between Picture Projects
and National Public Radio (NPR), this site offers a close look at the
workings of the U.S. criminal courts system. This "online documentary"
offers audio diaries from prisoners, correctional officers, and a judge,
plus panoramic photos, transcripts, and more. There are also teaching
ideas, a glossary, timeline, annotated links to related resources, and
quizzes.
Criminal
Justice Links - http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks/
This directory pulls together many
Internet resources. The category topics have links to information on juveniles,
drugs, prisons, police, courts, community corrections, and crime prevention.
Institute
for Criminal Justice Studies (ICJS): Web
Links - http://www.criminaljusticestudies.com/weblinks/ICJS_Links.htm
This site provides extensive links to criminal justice information
for professionals. Categories of information include crime prevention,
law enforcement, drugs and crime, government, law, public policy, and
research and evaluation. Developed by Southwest Texas State University's
Institute for Criminal Justice Studies.
Police
Officer's Internet Directory -
http://www.officer.com/
Although written for the police professional, this
site will be very useful to anyone needing criminal justice information.
The criminal justice resource directory links to US federal and constitutional
law sites, law libraries, and criminal justice resources by state. Criminal
justice issues
by topic include computer laws, hate crimes, terrorism, prison issues,
and firearms law. Links to international and foreign criminal justice
issues are also provided.
Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics - http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/
Presents 654 data tables, as PDF files
(Adobe Acrobat Reader required), from more than 100 sources. Includes
characteristics of the criminal justice system, public attitudes toward
crime and criminal justice topics, nature and distribution of known offenses,
characteristics and distribution of persons arrested, judicial processing
of defendants and persons under correctional supervision. Searchable.
Punishment:
The
Execution of Timothy McVeigh
- http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/okc/
Timothy James McVeigh was executed on June 11, 2001 for the April 19,
1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which killed 168
people and injured 500. This site describes federal rules and precise
protocol for "efficient and humane" executions and raises questions
about whether executions are a credible deterrent to crimes, are fairly
administered, etc. Fron CNN.com.
Civil Liberties:
American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Freedom Network - http://www.aclu.org/
This site gives a brief overview of the ACLU and presents information
on current ACLU activities in the news, Congress,
the courts, and the states. They also provide specific information on
issues they cover, including: criminal justice; cyber-liberties;
death penalty; drug policy; free speech; HIV / AIDS; immigration; lesbian
& gay rights; national security; police practices; prisons, privacy; racial
equality; religious liberty; reproductive rights; students rights; voting
rights; women's rights; and workplace rights. Each issue includes highlights
from recent ACLU actions, related legislation facing Congress, ACLU publications,
and links to other resources.
The
International Civil Liberties Report - http://www.aclu.org/International/International.cfm?ID=11742&c=36
of interest James Ross article pp 131-136
office
of foreign asset control - http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/
Perhaps of interest: Terrorist financing rewards program
Safe
and Free in Times of Crisis - http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/
"This special Web feature...tracks the ACLU's fight to stop the war
on terrorism's growing infringement on our civil liberties." Includes
fact sheets on the Patriot Act, pamphlets (including an excellent resource
on national identification cards), press releases, related news, and more.
The "Know Your Rights!" pamphlet is available in several languages.
US
Department of Justice - http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/fisaappealdecision.pdf
Us Foreign Intelligence on Surveillance and the Court of Review
US
Department of Justice - http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/nordwg.html
Civil Rights Division
Jumping off point for Investigation and prosecution of bias-motivated
violence and threats of violence since September 11against Arab-American
Muslim-American
Restorative
Justice and Victims' Rights:
Crime
Victims for a Just Society - http://www.crimevictims.net/
Organization that promotes progressive solutions to the issues of crime
and violence.
National
Victims' Constitutional Amendment Project - http://www.nvcap.org/
organization supporting the adoption of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution
recognizing the fundamental rights of crime victims to be treated with
dignity, fairness and respect by the criminal justice system.
Restorative
Justice Online - http://www.restorativejustice.org/
a service of the International Centre for Justice and Reconciliation of
Prison Fellowship International. The purpose of Restorative Justice Online
is to be a credible, non-partisan source of information on restorative
justice.
Restorative
Justice On-line Notebook - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/rest-just/
An on-line resource designed to promote the
understanding of restorative justice. The material presented on this site
is the product of five regional symposia held on restorative justice between
June 1997 and January 1998. This site is intended for all those interested
in better understanding the principles and practices of restorative justice
and especially for those practitioners who hope to implement restorative
justice in their communities.
StopViolence.com
- http://www.stopviolence.com/
"StopViolence collects resources
about non-repressive responses to a variety of violence, including school
shootings, sexual assault, and hate crimes. The underlying belief of StopViolence
is that punishment after a crime is not effective crime prevention."
Specific topics in this directory include rape, domestic violence, mediation,
and restorative justice.
Victim
Assistance National Resource Directory - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/fund/nrd/
This online directory provides state-level
contact information for six Federal grants programs that provide assistance
to crime victims. The information is available in a "Quick Look"
summary page and a detailed listing by state. The entire directory is
also available in text or PDF (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)files. The
information presented includes name of grant, purpose, grant administrator
name, mailing address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. From
the Office for Victims of Crime, U.S. Department of Justice. Updated annually.
Cybercrime:
Center for
Democracy and Technology -
http://www.cdt.org/
Their "mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance
constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and
communications technologies."
EFF: Electronic
Frontier Foundation - http://www.eff.org/
A non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest
to protect privacy, free expression, and access to online resources and
information. Check out their grassroots Blue Ribbon Campaign for online
freedom of expression.
EPIC.org:
Electronic Privacy Information Center - http://www.epic.org/
Here find relevant links, news, and
documentation from EPIC's advocacy in Freedom of Information Act, privacy,
and First Amendment litigation. Resources also include documents of issues-related
activities, FBI affidavits, news archives, debate resources, and guides
to privacy tools. EPIC's Bill-Track follows legislation. An online journal
covers issues of privacy and civil liberties in the information age (back
issues are available to 1991). Searchable.
Identity
Theft: Prevalence and Cost Appear to Be Growing - http://www.gao.gov/docdblite/summary.php?recflag=&accno=A02825&rptno=GAO-02-363
This March 2002 General Accounting Office (GAO) report to Congress contains
the available statistical data on the growing crime of identity fraud.
It presents data on the cost of identity theft to the financial services
industry, to the victims, and to the Federal criminal justice system.
The full-text of this 75 page report is available only in PDF.
Incarceration, Prisons
and the Death Penalty:
Death
Penalty Information Center (DPIC) - http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
Facts about the death penalty, including executions (upcoming and by year,
state, and method used), botched executions, and a list of individuals
executed (1976-2002). Full-text reports on a variety of topics relating
to capital punishment, including race and the death penalty, politicizing
the death penalty, crisis in death penalty representation, law enforcement
views, innocence and the death penalty, and cost of capital punishment.
Portions of the site are also available in Spanish.
Stanford
Prison Experiment: A Simulation Study of the Psychology of Imprisonment
- http://www.prisonexp.org/
In 1971, an experiment held at Stanford
University looked at the psychology behind prison life. Volunteers were
assigned prisoner and guard roles. The results, a disturbing look at human
behavior, are described here in words and pictures. The site also offers
discussion topics and links to other prison and criminal justice Web sites.
The
Sentencing Project - http://www.sentencingproject.org/
This organization is "an independent
source of criminal justice policy analysis, data and program information
for the public and policy-makers [which has] become a national leader
in the development of alternative sentencing programs and in the reform
of criminal justice policy." The site includes policy report summaries
and publications (full reports may be ordered); briefing/fact sheets (with
statistics about prisons and prisoners); events; and current related news
articles.
This page is maintained by
the MWCC Library.
This page last updated
2/6/03
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