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 Selected Reference Resources | |
| Source | Location |
| The capital punishment dilemma, 1950-1977 : a subject bibliography | Z5703.4.C36 T74 |
| Statistical abstract of the United States | Ready Reference (Behind the Reference Desk) |
| Encyclopedia of crime and justice | HV6017 .E52 1983 |
| Crime and punishment in America : a historical bibliography | Z5703.5.U5 C7 1984 |
| 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 |
| Encyclopedia of the American Constitution | KF4548 .E53 1986 |
| Encyclopedia of the American judicial system : studies of the principal institutions and processes of law | KF154 .E53 1987 |
| The evolving Constitution : how the Supreme Court has ruled on issues from abortion to zoning | KF4548 .L54 1992 |
| The Guide to American law : everyone's legal encyclopedia | KF156 .G77 1983 |
| Guide to South Carolina criminal law and procedure | KFS2361 .W38 1987 |
| Historic U.S. court cases, 1690-1990 : an encyclopedia | KF385.A4 J64 1992 |
| Legal traditions and systems : an international handbook | K583 .L44 1986 |
| 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 |
| The Supreme Court compendium : data, decisions, and developments | KF8742 .S86 1994 |
| West's encyclopedia of American law | KF154 .W47 1998 |
Electronic Indexes for Journal and Newspaper Articles |
| Expanded Academic Index |
| FactSearch |
| CQ Researcher |
| Lexis-Nexis |
| Social Science Abstracts |
| Dow Jones |
| NewsBank |
| PCI--Periodical Contents Index |
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) |
Web Searching |
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