This page contains links and supplement course material that may be useful to students enrolled in Dr. Wade Schindler's Introduction to Adminstration of Justice course at Tulane University.
Research Skills Development at Tulane University:
Research Workshops - Center for Library User Education
Finding Articles (1 hour)
Library in a Nutshell: Introduction to Your Library (1 hour)
Managing Your Research Materials (1 hour)
RefWorks (1-1/2 - 2 hours)
EndNote Basics (1-1/2 - 2 hours)
Research Consultation Request Form
Research assistance is available at the Research Help Desk. However, if you’re working on a complex research project you may benefit from a one-on-one Research Consultation where you can discuss your information needs with a librarian. Research Consultations can last from 15 minutes to 1 hour, depending on your research needs.
Presentations:
Profiling Serial Killers PowerPoint Presentation
Female Psychopathic Serial Killers
Resources on the web:
Very handy general reference library.
Caseflow Chart of the American Criminal Justice System
Easybib: The Free Automatic Bibliography and Citation Maker
Federal Government Resources on the Net
Internet Public Library and Librarians’ Internet Index
Journalist’s Guide to the Internet
Library of Congress Subject Heading Index - Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
New York Times Newsroom Navigator
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)
Federal District, Appelate, and Bankruptcy Courts Only – Costs 8 cents per page for downloading – Actual Court Documents.
Serial Murder: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives for Investigators
State and local Government Resources on the Net
Wikipedia list of serial killers by country
Do NOT cite Wikipedia as a source directly. Wikipedia is a vast information resource, but anyone can add, delete, or change information. The reliability of the site ranges from authoritative to reckless. However, Wikipedia is a good way to find other sources of information by tracking down its citations in the articles.
Supplemental Materials:
Dragnet - "The Big 17" - An episode of the the Dragnet police drama series that depicts a point of view that drug use, in this case, marijuana and heroin, leads to violent behavior. Los Angeles Police Chief W. H. Parker is credited as a technical advisor of the show. This video is included here to demonstrate the media's influence on drug policy. This in this sense, "the media" include all seven forms forms of mass communication: books, newspapers, magezines, radio, television, movies, and music recordings. Journalists and communications theorists generally do not consider the internet to be a seperate form of the media, but a combination of the other seven.
Academic articles concerning crime, deviant behavior and other criminal-justice matters.
Adult-Child Sexual Contact
Becoming a Marihuana (sic) User
Big Jails and Big Costs-The Individual and Collective Costs of Over-Incarceration in New Orleans
Convicted Rapists Vocabulary of Motive
Deviance as a Situated Phenomenon
Differential Association
Discriminatory Decision Making at the Legislative Level: An Analysis of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
Girls Crime and Womans Place
Illigitimate Means and Delinquient Cultures
Low Self-Control and Crime
Moral Entrepreneurs
Moral Passage
On Being Sane in Insane Places
On the Absence of Self-Control as the Basis for a General Theory of Crime
Primary and Secondary Deviance
Race, Class and the Development of Criminal Justice Policy
Shocking Numbers and Graphic Accounts - Orcutt-Turner
Social Structure and Anomie
Stigma and Identity
The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City
The Police and the Black Male (Anderson)
The Racialization of Crime and Punishment (Brewer and Heitzeg)
The Social Construction of Drug Scares (Reinarman)
Who Pays the Price - Report on Indigent Defense
Journalistic articles concerning crime, deviant behavior and other criminal-justice matters.
The Myth of Fingerprints - Simon Cole - The New York Times - 13 May 2001
Unpublished research papers concerning crime, deviant behavior and other criminal-justice matters.
Detective Fiction: Progeny of Journalism
The Racialized Construction of Crime and Labeling of Criminals - David Cook