Justice Administration 649: Quantitative Analysis

Instructor: Geetha Suresh, g0sure01@louisville.edu, (502)852-2483

Finding sources: Recommended Databases Research Methods Sources Statistical Sources Minerva (the catalog) Interlibrary Loan

Evaluating sources: Critical Evaluation of Sources Scholarly Journals v. Magazines Citing sources: APA Examples of References APA Citation Style (Cornell)

Recommended Databases

Criminal Justice Abstracts

Comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. (CSA)

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Summaries of more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice, including government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research. (CSA)

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

The world's largest repository of computer-readable research data for the social sciences and related fields. Requires registration and then the requested dataset can be downloaded. Datasets can be processed with SAS, SPSS, or Stata.

You might also be interested in these related databases:

Congressional Universe

Indexes a vast amount of information published by and about Congress: hearing transcripts and submitted testimony; committee reports; bills and public laws; selected committee prints; congressional documents; Congressional Record; Federal Register; current Code of Federal Regulations; and current U.S. code. Some full-text. (Lexis-Nexis)

GPO Monthly Catalog

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Access to a wide range of full-text material in News (General, U.S., World, News wires & transcripts, Non-english language, Business, Legal, University, Medical, Arts & Sports); Business (Business News, Industry & Market News, Accounting Literature, Company Information [financial reports, profiles, SEC & EDGAR filings & reports], Business Directories); and Legal (Legal News & Reviews, Case Law, Codes & Regulations [U.S. federal and state], Canadian Legislative Materials, European Union Law, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations, Patent Research Tools, and Legal Career Resources)

PAIS International

Index to journal articles, books, and government publications on public affairs from 1972 to the present. (CSA)

Political Science Abstracts

Indexes articles from over 300 essential political science journals. (CSA)

PsycINFO

Social Work Abstracts Plus

Coverage of more than 450 journals in Social Work and related areas. (SilverPlatter)

Sociological Abstracts

Abstracts to articles from 2,300 journals on all aspects of sociology. (CSA)

A list of all Justice Administration databases is available on the Justice Administration Guide.

Research Methods Sources

The conceptual foundations of social research methods
Ekstrom Library book stacks (3rd floor) H62 .B337 2004

The Sage encyclopedia of social science research methods
Ekstrom Library reference book stacks (1st floor) H62 .L456 2004

Applied multivariate statistical analysis
Ekstrom Library book stacks (3rd floor) QA278 .H346 2003

Social work research methods : qualitative and quantitative approaches
Ekstrom Library book stacks (3rd floor) HV11 .N483 2003

The practice of research in criminology and criminal justice
Ekstrom Library Media book stacks (2nd floor) HV6024.5 .B33 2001