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Court TV - The Cable Channel has top
news stories both domestically and internationally; trial archives; video clips
from famous cases; and more.
Law and Justice Information Links
About.Com's Criminal Justice Glossary - This electronic glossary contains major terms and
key concepts pertaining to Criminal Justice, Criminology and Criminal Law. Click on a
glossary of your choice below, then use the alphabet along the top to navigate your way to the terms
for which you are searching.
Law
Libraries Glossary of Legal Terms - An electronic glossary of legal terms
from the New York State Unified Court System.
Criminal Justice Research Links
American
Civil Liberties Union - Many resources, including Supreme Court decisions
accompanied by constitutional analyses, and a wide variety of information on
civil rights and individuals rights and liberties.
Federal Courts Homepage
- Information from the Administrative Office of the United States Courts
InfoTrac - Searchable database
by Thompson Learning/West/Wadsworth of full-text natural science, social science, and
humanities journal articles (requires a valid Infotrac password).
Law Crawler - Search Engine for
finding legally-related information.
NCJRS - National Criminal Justice
Reference Service's on-line Justice Information Center.
United States Constitution
- Click here to access the full-text of the U.S. Constitution, including
Articles and Amendments.
LawGuru.com (formerly the U.S. House of Representatives Internet
Law Library) - Search for federal laws, regulations, treaties, and even some
international law.
United States Sentencing Commission - The USSC site contains
guidelines, publications, reports to Congress, federal sentencing statistics, links to related sites, and other resources.
Criminal Justice Career Links
CopCareer.com - CopCareer.com offers free
law enforcement career information.
LawEnforcementJobs.com -
Employment information on over 4,000 municipal police, state police and
patrol, sheriffs, federal, international, corrections, university, and college
departments.
The Corrections Connection
- Career information and job links, as well as ews, editorials, networking,
and training information.
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Recruitment Page - Learn about BOP careers, the employment process, and
current vacancies by using the links provided to the left.
RealCaliforniaJobs.com - The link will automatically run a search for
vacancies in the state's correctional fields.
Writing Tools
(dictionaries and help with English grammar,
style, and usage):
"Elements of Style" by Strunk and White (a guide to English
grammar and usage)
http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html
Searchable Legal Dictionary
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Links for Assistance with Citation Form and Style
Basic Legal Citation Using "The BlueBook: A Uniform System of
Citation" (18th ed. 2005) and
"ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation" (3d ed. 2006).
http://www.law.cornell.edu/citation/
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