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Criminal Justice: Research Methods

A guide to the best Criminal Justice resources in Geisel Library and online.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of class today, you will be able to:

  • Identify where to search for scholarly, research articles in order to find empirical sources relevant to your topic.
  • Implement advanced search strategies in order to find citations and abstracts to empirical sources relevant to you topic.
  • List three tools you can use in order to access the full-text of the empirical sources you find relevant to your topic.

Agenda

Basic Search 

I'll review basic search strategies, and share with you tips and tricks to using library databases to find research articles.

Advanced Search

I'll share with you an advanced search strategy called "citation trails" that is great for fleshing out the scholarly conversation on a topic. This process will help you hone down your topic to a reasonable size as well as find all the sources you could possible need to complete your annotated bibliography and literature review assignments.