Core Resources
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowFully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database with ongoing comprehensive coverage of U.S. statutory materials and more than 2,300 scholarly journals, all of the world’s constitutions, all U.S. treaties, federal regulations, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of federal case law.
Also includes specialized collections focused on:- Criminal Justice & Criminology
- Early English Law
- Foregin Relations of the U.S.
- History of Supreme Court Nominations
- Gun Regulation in America
- JFK Assiassination
- Presidential Impeachments
- Slavery in America
- Texas Legal History
- Women and the Law
- Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text from 860+ scholarly journals, with excellent coverage for criminology, psychology, sociology, health sciences and the humanities. Numerous journals also cover education, general and international business, and management.
Developing Keywords
Make a research question from your topic.
- For example: "What is currently being done to help decrease the rate of recidivism among criminals?"
- Keywords: recidivism and criminals/li>
Think of related words.
- Recidivism: repeat,
- Criminals: criminals, white-collar crime, offenders, crooks,
Get searching!
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