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LIBRARY
Capital Punishment |
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| Non-Fiction | |
| 306.0973 CAR | Our endangered values : America's moral crisis |
| 306.9 PRO | Problems of Death |
| 345.73 MEL | Dead wrong : a death row lawyer speaks out against capital punishment |
| 345.73 PAL | The death penalty : an American citizen's guide to understanding federal and state laws |
| 345.73 TUR | Ultimate punishment : a lawyer's reflections on dealing with the death penalty |
| 346.7301 JAC | Teens on trial : young people who challenged the law-- and changed your life |
| 364.6 DEA | The Death penalty : opposing viewpoints |
| 364.66 BOS | Choosing mercy : a mother of murder victims pleads to end the death penalty |
| 364.66 DEA | Death penalty |
| 364.66 SAR | When the state kills : capital punishment and the American condition. |
| 364.66 STE | The debate about the death penalty |
| Reference | |
| REF 301 ENC | Social issues |
| REF 340 BLA | Black's law dictionary |
| REF 342.73 ENC | Encyclopedia of the American Constitution |
| REF 347.7 GRE | Great American trials |
| REF 347.73 OXF | The Oxford compnaion to the Supremem Court |
| REF 349.73 GRE | Great American court cases |
| RE F 364 CRI | Crime and punishment |
| REF 364.03 ENC | Encyclopedia of crime and justice |
| REF 364.66 PAL | Encyclopedia of capital punishment in the United States |
| REF 364.973 HAN | Crime and punishment in America |
| REF 364.973 SIF | The encyclopedia of American crime |
| Search Terms |
| "death penalty" OR "capital punishment" |
| "three strikes"AND law |
| Databases |
| CQ Researcher Online |
| CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. |
| http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/index.php |
| EBSCO Ultra Online |
| Perhaps the best research tool for literary, fine arts, history, social studies information. If you have an English project, use this site. Be sure to click on Full Text when looking for direct sources and quotes. |
| http://search.epnet.com |
| eLibrary |
| eLibrary Curriculum Edition--the ultimate easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource--delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries. |
| www.proquestk12.com/ |
| Encyclopedia Britannica |
| The most comprehensive K-12 reference resource, with separate units for elementary, middle school, and high school. |
| www.school.eb.com |
| Gale Virtual Reference Library |
| GVRL is a collection of ebooks that cover the following topics; arts, biography, business, education, environment, history, information and publishing, law, literature, medicine, multcaultural studies, nation and world, religion, science and social science. |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. |
| New Catholic Encyclopedia is a standard of reference in public, academic and high school libraries worldwide. Prized for its scholarly presentation of persons and subjects related to Catholicism and the humanities. |
| http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/eBooks?ste =22&docNum=CX3407799999&q=whea91493 |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Critical Thinking |
| Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues. Drawing on acclaimed series published by Greenhaven Press and other Thomson Gale imprints, OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. New |
| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493 |
| Websites |
| American Civil Liberties Union |
| The mission of the ACLU is ensure that the power even of a democratic majority must be limited, to ensure individual rights. |
| http://www.aclu.org/ |
| BalancedPolitics.org |
| BalancedPolitics.org was developed to present a logical, balanced discussion on a number of issues important to society. We try to provide reasoned, critical, non-partisan analysis of both sides of the issue. We try to not let personal feelings or passions enter into the analysis, and we don't limit our thinking by political correctness. |
| http://www.balancedpolitics.org/three_strikes.htm |
| BBC Religion and Ethics |
| Part of the BBC website that focuses on world religions and ethics. Use the drop-down menu to find your topic. |
| http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/ |
| Capital punishment statistics. Presents characteristics of persons under sentence of death at yearend and of persons executed. |
| Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/cp.htm |
| Death Penaly Information Center |
| The Death Penalty Information Center is a non-profit organization serving the media and the public with analysis and information on issues concerning capital punishment. |
| Multnomah Library Homework Help |
| Large list of social issues topics with authoritative Pro/Con links for each. |
| http://www.multcolib.org/homework/ |
| ProCon.org |
| A nonpartisan, nonprofit, 501(c)(3) public charity whose mission is "Promoting education and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a simple, nonpartisan primarily pro-con format." |
| http://www.procon.org/ |
| Search Engine |
| Ask.com |
| Ask.com is a search engine that is a result of the merging of Teoma and Ask Jeeves, resulting in one of the world's most powerful and unique search engines. Ask is still the only, major search technology based upon the clustering concept of subject-specific popularity. |
| www.ask.com |
| Citation Aids |
| http://www.easybib.com |
| The free automatic bibliography composer. Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word. |
| http://www.northern.wvnet.edu/~tcraig/wc.html |
| Probably the best site for learning how to document sources, both in print and electronic format. Very clear. |
| http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/ |
| Link for documenting sources in research papers. |
| http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html |
| Excellent resource for MLA formatting with many good examples of papers, works cited pages, etc. |
