This tutorial provides an outline of the library research process specific to the needs of criminal justice students at Old Dominion University. It may be used by students independently or in conjunction with a particular course.

If you need to print out a Certification of Completion for your professor you will need to complete the full tutorial in one session (takes about thirty minutes). If you are using this resource independently or your professor does not require the Certificate of Completion, just go straight to whichever chapters interest you.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Research Overview
Chapter 2 Finding criminal justice books
Chapter 3 Finding criminal justice articles
Chapter 4 Finding criminal justice statistics & data files
Chapter 5 Finding criminal justice agencies and organizations
Chapter 6 Finding laws and court cases
Chapter 7 Finding international criminal justice information
Resources Links to resources mentioned in the this tutorial

Moving around the tutorial: The links on the left border of each page allow you move directly to this contents page or the resources guide which appears at the end of the tutorial. Within each lesson the continue link on the bottom right side moves you to the next page.

Web resource links: In order to keep things simple for those without much web experience, web resources which are mentioned in different chapters are not linked within the body of the tutorial, but rather from the resources page at the end.

Please direct comments, suggestions or help requests to Stuart Frazer (sfrazer@odu.edu)

This tutorial created by: Stuart Frazer (sfrazer@odu.edu)
Social Sciences Reference Librarian
Network support by: Glenn Bunton (gbunton@odu.edu)
Systems Librarian for Internet Technologies

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