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Capital Punishment
Reference Resources Reference Resources When beginning, a good way to obtain background information and ideas to build on your topic area is with reference materials such as encyclopedias, almanacs, and abstracts. Once you have established your topic, state your thesis or theme in a sentence or two. From this sentence, identify the keywords and use them in your search statement.
- CQ Researcher Bound Periodicals
- Editorials on File Ref D839 .E3 Reprinted newsworthy editorials from North American newspapers and includes both pro and con arguments. Includes a subject index. Encyclopędia Britannica Online The complete encyclopedia, with related Internet sites and more.
- Facts on File Ref D410 .F3 News digest that summarizes current U.S. and world magazines and newspaper reports. Subject and name indexes are included.
- Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia EBSCOhost "The Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia database indexes over 25,000 records. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. This database is updated annually."
- The International Sourcebook on Capital Punishment Ref HV8694 .I58 1997
Searching the Library Catalog
Go to Randall Library's Home Page [http://library.uncw.edu], on the left side of the screen select "Catalog." Click on the Subject tab and enter "capital punishment" to view a listing of the subject headings related to capital punishment or enter for example enter "capital punishment united states" to view items specifically about capital punishment in the United States.
Opposing
Viewpoints
A good resource located in both the General
Collection and available on the Database and Article searching page is the
"Opposing Viewpoints Series". This resource presents opposing
viewpoints on the purpose, morality, deterrent influence, and application of the
death penalty. To locate the item in the General Collection, perform a TITLE
Search using "Opposing Viewpoints Series". To use the
electronic version which includes: access to viewpoint articles, topic
overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text
magazine and newspaper articles. Click on Databases and Articles on the Randall Library homepage http://library.uncw.edu/
then click on the letter O for Opposing Viewpoints.
Locating Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
The databases listed below can provide citations to newspaper, magazine and scholarly/peer review journals as well as each offers some full-text articles. Perform a subject search for articles by simply entering "capital punishment" into the search box in any of the indexes listed below. If you would like to combine "capital punishment" with a related term, such as: death row, electrocution, executions & executioners, gas chambers, or hanging, use the connector AND.
For example: "capital punishment" AND "gas chambers"
Newspaper Indexes
- America's Newspapers
- EBSCOhost
-- Newspaper Source
Provides selected full text articles from 143 U.S. and international newspapers. - LexisNexis
Academic
Lexis Nexis can provide you with today's news or glance back more than 20 years. - ProQuest
Newspapers
Includes the "The New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. - The New York Times Archives
General-Interdisciplinary:
These indexes cover periodicals from various disciplines, with a broad subject scope but not in depth coverage of any particular subject area.
Scholarly-Peer Reviewed journals contain articles written by experts in a given field that expect readers to have an understanding of a field's terminology, history, and current concerns. Articles will include extensive documentation to previously published research Peer-reviewed journals are very much like scholarly journals in that all submissions are reviewed by editorial board of professional/experts from the field. Both types of journals place emphasis on content rather then appearance and usually published by professional organizations.
- EBSCOhost
MasterFILE Premier and Academic Search Premier indexes would be of most help for this assignment.
- Criminal
Justice Abstracts
Citations to major journals in criminology and related disciplines. - PAIS
International
Citations to public policy literature of economics, government, law, international business, political science, public administration, and other social sciences. - National
Criminal Justice Reference Service Database
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Database contains summaries of more than 150,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.
Internet Resources Web-Site Evaluation
The reliability and quality of information from Web sources has created much debate in the academic world. Researchers must always remember that the Web is a vast, unregulated information resource that ANYONE with the proper tools and a little money can create a site on the Web. When viewing a site for research purposes, users can and should perform a Web-site analysis by consider the some of the following points taken from Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources - UCLA College Library:
- Who is the author of the page or site?
- Does the author appear to be qualified to write about the topic?
- Is the site affiliated with any institution, company, or organization?
- If so, does this affiliation add bias to the information?
- Or, does it suggest that the source is credible?
- Is the information for a specialized or general audience?
- Does the information seem unreasonably or unfairly biased in any way? (Avoid any sites that appear to be advertising a product or service.)
- When was the site created or last modified?
- Do links to other sites work?
- Is it easy to navigate the site?
- Who is the intended audience?
- Bureau
of Justice Statistics Publications
Presents characteristics of persons under sentence of death on December 31, 1997, and of persons executed in 1997. Preliminary data on executions in 1998 includeState, method used, and race of inmate. - Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project
- The Critical Criminology (American Society of Criminology) Division
- Death Penalty - American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Network
- Death Penalty In The United States of America - Amnesty International
- Death Penalty Information Center
- North Carolina Department of Correction - The Death Penalty and the NC Department of Correction
- United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - Special Rapporteur on
extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions
Last Update: February 11, 2008
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