This workshop reviews the NCJRS website and other large sites that act as gateways to justice information and other types of information on the World Wide Web including:
NCJRS Virtual Library
http://www.ncjrs.gov
Located on the left hand side of the NCJRS web site, the
Virtual Library provides access to electronic versions of over 1,500 OJP and
ONDCP publications. Publications are broken down into topical categories and
subcategories.
NCJRS Abstracts Database
http://www.ncjrs.gov/abstractdb/search.asp
Searchable database containing over 160,000 abstracts of
justice publications including: Federal, State, and local government reports,
books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.
NCJRS Calendar of Events
http://eventscalendar.ncjrs.gov/
The NCJRS Calendar of Events offers a comprehensive list of
conferences, workshops, seminars, and other events relating to juvenile and
criminal justice and drug control policy. The Calendar also allows users to add
events to the database.
Read hints about using these
three resources.
1. Find a journal article by D. Alex Heckert
on batterer programs.
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2. Find an article written in 2000 on restorative justice.
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3. Find a document containing the words prisoner(s) and rehabilitation in the
title, but not drugs.
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4. What organization(s) is sponsoring the Tenth International Conference on
Safe Communities being held in May 2001?
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Frank Schmalleger's Cybrary
http://talkjustice.com/cybrary.asp
Compiled by Frank Schmalleger, the director of the Justice Research Center and co-director of the Justice Distance Learning Consortium, this site contains a very large criminal justice directory divided into numerous and specific categories. The site also includes criminal justice and law enforcement related news and links to the Talk Justice message board and chat room.
Officer.com
http://www.officer.com
Created by James Meredith, a
Pavnet
http://www.pavnet.org
Hosted by seven federal agencies, "PAVNET Online
presents information on programs around the country that address youth violence,
family violence, community violence, substance abuse, and the needs of
victims." Most of the programs presented are at least partially supported
by federal grants.
APBnews
http://www.apbnews.com/
A news center focused exclusively on crime and public safety news. Often has stories not seen anywhere else.
GPOAccess
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
GPOAccess provides access to information from all three branches, including the Budget, bills, Supreme Court Decisions, the U.S.Code, the Congressional Record and much more. With the website, the GPO is trying to assume the same central role they had in the paper age.
Thomas
http://thomas.loc.gov/
The Library of Congress's directory to congressional
information (bills, hearings, committee reports, etc.). For the most part
coverage starts in 1995 with the first session of the 104th Congress, but the
site also provides access to major laws and other selected material from
earlier dates.
Piper Resources to State and
Local Government
http://www.statelocalgov.net
A comprehensive set of links to state, county and city
agencies.
GovBOT
Search Engine
http://eden.cs.umass.edu/Govbot
GovBot searches 1,594,012 web pages
from U.S. Government sites.
GovStartpage
http://www.govstartpage.com
A large commercial directory with a highly condensed listing of agency web sites. Includes links to GovBot and two other federal government search engines.
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/
The National Data Book, it contains a large collection of statistics
on social and economic conditions in the
http://www.census.gov
A massive site now containing some data
from the 2000 Census and complete information from the 1990 Census. The
data is broken down into major subject areas (poverty, home-ownership,
population).
FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov
The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
maintains this site to provide easy access to the statistics and information
produced by over 70 agencies.
Uncover
http://uncweb.carl.org
One of the best ways to get journal article citations, this commercial information provider allows users to search the table of contents of thousands of journals at no charge.
Library of Congress Online
Catalog
http://catalog.loc.gov
One of the most complete catalogs of books in the world.
PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases, with links to participating online journals.
ERIC
http://www.accesseric.org/searchdb/searchdb.html
Sponsored by the Department of Education, the ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. The database contains more than 950,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
1. What is the phone number of the Brockville Police Service in
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2. Find the text of Senate Report 106-352 from the 106th Congress.
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3. According to the 2000 Census, what is the number of Texans who indicated
their ethnicity as Asian?
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4. Find a journal article dealing with lead exposure and effects on child
learning.
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Compiled by James Fort and Scott Hertzberg. NCJRS. Office of Justice Programs. March 2001