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Selected Reference Resources
Source Location
Capital punishment KF9227.C2 F53 2000
Statistical abstract of the United States Ready Reference (Behind the Reference Desk)
Encyclopedia of crime and justice HV6017 .E52 1983
American justice KF154 .A44 1996
Black's Law dictionary : definitions of the terms and phrases of American and English jurisprudence, ancient and modern KF156 .B53 1990
A dictionary of modern legal usage KF156 .G367 1995
Modern dictionary for the legal profession KF156 .R42 1996
Modern legal glossary KF156 .R4
The Oxford companion to law K48 .W34
The Oxford dictionary of American legal quotations KF159 .S53 1993
South Carolina jurisprudence : a complete narrative, and encyclopedic statement of South Carolina law KFS1865 .S68 1991
West's encyclopedia of American law KF154 .W47 1998



Electronic Indexes for Journal and Newspaper Articles
Academic Search Premier
Expanded Academic Index
FactSearch
CQ Researcher
Lexis-Nexis
Social Science Abstracts
Factiva
America: History and Life

 


 


Books Available for Checkout
To find books on your topic, you will probably want to do a keyword search in ALCUIN, the Library's online catalog. ALCUIN supports most of the standard searching techniques we discussed in class, including Boolean Operators (AND, OR), Nesting (using parentheses), and Truncation (using the asterisk *). You might, for example, might want to do a keyword search such as the following:

(america* or united states) and (execution or capital punishment or death penalty)



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