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Sociology
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Criminal Justice
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
Information about crime in the US, with current statistics, organized into categories including crimes and victims, drugs and crime, criminal offenders, law enforcement and prosecution, courts and sentencing, corrections, expenditures and employment, and criminal records systems.
- Criminal Justice Links
A directory of criminal justice resources on the Internet, including juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, drug and alcohol information, the courts, pornography, obscenity, censorship, forensics. ( School of Criminology, Florida State University)
- Death Penalty Information Center
Analysis and information concerning capital punishment, including issues such as race, innocence, public opinion, costs, deterrence, and clemency. Lists upcoming and recent executions, methods of executions, state execution rates, and the number of executions by state.
- Justice Information Center: a Service of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Searchable database, with information on corrections, courts, crime prevention, international law, juvenile justice, and law enforcement; information on drugs and crime, crime victims, and criminal justice statistics.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Hundreds of tables and figures of data on all aspects of criminal justice in the US. (Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, State Univ. of NY, Albany)
- Uniform Crime Reports
Crime reports for each state in the US. Searchable.
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries
- A Dictionary of Sociology
Search the full text of this Oxford University Press publication.(Oxford Reference Online)
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
Access to the full text of 105 authoritative electronic reference books; search or browse the collection or an individual title. Full text documents are available in HTML or PDF formats. Includes
Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources; Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Encyclopedia of Population; Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender; Family in Society: Essential Primary Sources; International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences; Social Change in America; Social Policy: Essential Primary Sources. (Gale)
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Gateways & General Resources
- Social Science Resources: Sociology and Anthropology
Links to sociology research sites. (Craig McKie, Using the Web for Social Research)
- A Sociological Tour through Cyberspace
Links to such areas as death and dying; marriage and family life; social inequality; gender and society; race and ethnicity; sociology of knowledge; demography. Site also includes general sociological resources, theory construction, data sets, research methods and statistics. (Michael C. Kearl, Trinity Univ.)
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Indexes
Academic OneFile
Provides indexing and abstracts for articles in over 10,000 publications, both scholarly and popular. Full text or page images of articles are available from over 5300 of these publications. Coverage is from the 1980s to the present. For research in all academic areas. (Gale)
- Academic Search Premier
Provides indexing and abstracts for articles in over 8200 publications, both scholarly and popular, in a broad range of subject areas. Full text or page image of articles are available from over 4700 of these publications. PDF backfiles to 1975 are available for some titles. (EBSCOHost via NCLive)
- JSTOR
A searchable archive of core scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences.
- Project Muse
Indexing and abstracts to articles from over 300 scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Refer to Periodicals & Newspapers page to determine full-text availability.
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Professional Associations & Organizations
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Social Issues
- CQ Researcher
In-depth analysis of current and controversial social and political issues. Archived from 1991.(CQ Press)
- Homes and Communities
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
- Poverty Related Links
A directory of poverty related resources, organized into such areas as activism, children and families, education, health and insurance, homelessness, income, urban issues and welfare reform. (Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin - Madison)
- Social Gerontology & the Aging Revolution
Information on the different aspects of aging, including information on old age across cultures and time, federal services and resources, aging related to the workplace, economy, family, and religion. (Michael C. Kearl, Trinity Univ.)
- Sociology of Death and Dying
Information and resources on the sociological aspects of death and dying. Death across cultures and time, funeral traditions, accidental death, homicide, suicide, AIDS, cemeteries, obituaries, death and religion, genocide, hospice, abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, and grief. (Michael C. Kearl, Trinity Univ.)
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Social Policy
- CQ Public Affairs Collection
A storehouse of public policy content, organized into 22 subject areas, including advocacy and public service, culture and recreation, education, environment,science. In depth reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analysis, historic documents and primary source materials. Directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each major policy area.(CQ Press)
- Thomas: U.S. Congress on the Internet
Provides House and Senate information, links to congressional information. Full text of current bills, searchable by bill number or keyword, or browse by bill type. (Library of Congress)
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Statistical Sources
- US Census Bureau
Data about the people and the economy of the United States. Includes data from the 1990 Census, with maps. (US Census Bureau)
- Simply Map
Web-based mapping application that lets users quickly create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using powerful demographic, business, and marketing data. (Geographic Research via NCLive)
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