Using and Evaluating Information Sources

• The Spider's Apprentice: How to Use Web Search Engines
• Evaluating Web Sites
• The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Resources
• How to Evaluate the Sources You Find
• Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals

• College Writing and Citing: American Sociological Review - Web resources selected by EC librarians

• Elmhurst College Learning Center
• Writing Center at Elmhurst College

FINDING ARTICLES IN POPULAR PRESS SOURCES

Current issues of the magazines listed below are also available for browsing at the library. All library journals and magazines are arranged alphabetically by title.

Internet Versions of Some Popular News Magazines

• Newsweek
• Time
• U.S. News and World Report

Click here for a collection of local newspapers available on the Internet, including the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. These sites generally contain only the latest news.

The library subscribes to several databases that contain newspaper articles. Click here to see our subscriptions to the Chicago Tribune, NewsIllinois, and Newspaper Source.

If you are accessing this page from off campus, the links to most library databases will not work. To use these resources, go to the Library Web Page, where you can connect to Articles and Databases, Reference Sources, and Electronic Journals and Newspapers after providing your Elmhurst College login and password.

Finding Journal Articles in Library Databases
 

Use Illinet Online to determine if the library owns the journal in print or microfilm, and check Journals and Magazines Available Online for electronic access to journals. If the article you seek is unavailable from these sources, please request it through our online Interlibrary Loan article request form.

Specific Articles
The articles below are available in the library's databases. If you are trying to access these articles from off campus, please go to the list Journals and Magazines Available Online and provide your Elmhurst College login and password. Choose the appropriate journal title and search for the articles listed below by typing in the article title in the search box.

Gangs/Organized Crime

• Godson, Roy and William Olson. 1995. "International organized crime." Society 32(2): 18-29.
• Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. 1997. "The social organization of street gang activity in an urban ghetto." American Journal of Sociology 103(1): 82-111.

Murder

• Cao, Liquin, Anthony Adams and Vickie J. Jensen. 1997. "A test of the black subculture of violence thesis: a research note." Criminology 35(2): 367-379. Available in the library periodicals section
• Gerbner, George. 1995. "Television violence: power or peril." In Gender, Race and Class in Media. Library call number 306.7 G325r
• Liska, Allen E., John R. Logan, and Paul E. Bellair. 1998. "Race and violent crime in the suburbs." American Sociological Review 63(1): 27-38.
• Martinez, Jr. Ramiro. 1996. "Latinos and lethal violence: the impact of poverty and inequality." Social Problems 43(2): 131-146.
• Parker, Robert Nash and Randi S. Cartmill. 1998. "Alcohol and homicide in the United States 1934-1995--or one reason why U.S. rates of violence may be going down." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 88(4): 1369-1398.
• Sampson, Robert. 1987. "Urban black violence: the effect of male joblessness and family disruption."American Journal of Sociology 93(2): 348-382.
• Stolzenberg, Lisa and Stewart J. D'Alessio. 2000. "Gun availability and violent crime." Social Forces 78(4): 1461-1482.

Prevention: Drug Use and Violence

• Hansen, William B. and Ralph B. McNeal Jr. 1997. "How D.A.R.E. works: an examination of program effects on mediating variables." Health Education and Behavior 24(2): 165-176.
• Rosenbaum, Dennis, Robert L. Flewelling, Susan L. Bailey, Chris L. Ringwalt, and Deanna L. Wilkinson. 1994. "Cops in the classroom: a longitudinal evaluation of drug abuse resistance education (D.A.R.E.)." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 31(1): 3-31.

Books (Illinet Online)
The library has a variety of print resources related to criminology. Please check Illinet Online for books on specific types of crimes or crime and justice in general. Contact the Reference Desk at 630-617-3173 if you need assistance.
 
 

Criminal Justice Links (Florida State University) - A good starting place for various criminology topics - make sure to scroll down to the section "Major Pages Include."

National Criminal Justice Reference Service - A gateway to a variety of statistics and other resources in areas of justice such as criminal justice, drugs, juvenile justice, victims. This site also features a database of abstracts covering books and journals on justice issues.

JUSTINFO - An electronic newsletter sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, providing the latest criminal justice news and information.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics Online - An online version of a publication produced by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, this site contains data on criminal justice systems, public opinion on crime, types of offenses, demographics of criminals, court process and correctional issues.

Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center - A site containing information on offender characteristics, types of offenses, sentencing and demographics.

National Center for Victims of Crime - This site includes information on topics such as school crime, stalking, hate crimes, and provides links to other sites.

National Youth Gang Center - A project of the Institute for Intergovernmental Research which collects data and reviews legislation and literature on gangs.

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention - See the section "JJ Facts & Figures" to find statistics on juvenile justice, including areas such as gangs, corrections and violence and victimization

Organized Crime: a crime statistics site - This site contains a tutorial on locating and using crime data, and has links to crime statistics organized by institution - local, state and national statistics, colleges and universities, etc.