Administration of Justice Research Guide
This page lists only subject-specific resources for Administration of Justice. General information about searching for resources is available on the Guides page and in the options at the right (or at the bottom) of this page.
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Journal Articles
See the Find Articles page for general information about finding magazine, journal, and newspaper articles, including how to:
- search specialized databases
- understand the difference between a scholarly journal and a magazine
- request articles that are not immediately accessible
Journal Article Databases
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UH Hilo
Also be sure to search some of the General Databases and related Subject Area Databases:
UH Hilo General | UH Hilo Subject Area
- HeinOnline (UH Hilo access)
Contains journals, U.S. federal and state documents, international materials, and case law. Collections include:- Civil Rights and Social Justice
- Gun Regulation and Legislation in America
- LGBTQ+ Rights
- Open Society Justice Initiative
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
- LLMC-Digital (UH Hilo access)
LLMC is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to the goals of preserving legal titles and government documents, while making copies inexpensively available digitally through this online service. - Military & Government Collection (EBSCO) (UH Hilo access)
Full-text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles. Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, and Naval Forces. - Vocational Studies Complete (EBSCO) (UH Hilo access)
Full-text journals and books for community college programs, including substance abuse counseling, CAD, criminal justice, forensics, graphic arts, health information technology, travel and tourism, veterinary assisting and more.
HawaiʻiCC
Also be sure to search some of the General Databases and related Subject Area Databases:
HawaiʻiCC General | HawaiʻiCC Subject Area
- HeinOnline (Hawaiʻi CC access)
Contains journals, U.S. federal and state documents, international materials, and case law. Collections include:- Civil Rights and Social Justice
- Gun Regulation and Legislation in America
- LGBTQ+ Rights
- Open Society Justice Initiative
- Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
- LLMC-Digital (Hawaiʻi CC access)
LLMC is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to the goals of preserving legal titles and government documents, while making copies inexpensively available digitally through this online service. - Military & Government Collection (EBSCO) (Hawaiʻi CC access)
Full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, and indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles. Some publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Defence Studies, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, and Naval Forces. - Vocational Studies Complete (EBSCO) (Hawaiʻi CC access)
Full-text journals and books for community college programs, including substance abuse counseling, CAD, criminal justice, forensics, graphic arts, health information technology, travel and tourism, veterinary assisting and more.
Meda Chesney-Lind Papers
Meda Chesney-Lind taught courses in the UH system that focused on the sociology of gender, women, and crime. The Meda Chesney-Lind Papers “comprises five series: University Activities, Professional Services, Research Topics, Correspondences, and Notebooks. Spanning from the 1970s to 2010s, this collection reveals her professional life as a scholar and an activist with a focus on women and crime. It provides valuable research materials about the brutal shakedown of the Oʻahu Community Correctional Center in 1981 and the experience and backgrounds of delinquent girls and incarcerated women in Hawaiʻi.”
Primary Sources
New! JSTOR Reveal Digital "develops Open Access primary source collections from under-represented 20th-century voices of dissent, crowdfunded by libraries. The content is curated and sourced from a wide array of libraries, museums, historical societies and individual collectors. The results are diverse thematic collections of scholarly value available to everyone everywhere" including American Prison Newspapers 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside.
Dissertations and Theses
The library has access to the full-text of many theses and dissertations, most of which have extensive lists of references. Some examples of material available in full-text:
Branson, Candy L. Learn to swim: A mixed methods approach to understanding how social work experiential education impacts students' social justice attitudes. University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. 2015.
Chagnon, Nicholas J. Violence against women in the news: Progress without justice. University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. 2016.
Gralapp, Sophie A. Job Stress Experienced by Correctional Officers in Hawai‘i Related to Working in a Carceral Space. University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. 2022.
Hunger, Aaron. Reforming Honolulu police oversight: Evaluating the ability of gender and disability-based police violence to reform oversight mechanisms. University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. 2017.
Miao, Tai-An H. Transformative Planning: Reframing and Reforming the Youth Justice System Through the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative. University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa. 2019.
Dissertations and Theses from ProQuest (Licensed for UH Hilo users only)
Online access to full text of doctoral dissertations and graduate theses from universities around the world, including all campuses of the University of Hawaiʻi.
Websites
Cases and Codes from FindLaw.com (“the number one source of free legal information and resources on the web”) contains resources and links for both state and federal laws. This includes resources pertaining to constitutions, statutes, cases and more. Run a search for case summaries or select a jurisdiction to browse applicable laws.
Community Perspectives on Policing: East Hawaiʻi Policing Study - The East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center (EHCC), with funding from the Hawaiʻi Council for the Humanities, initiated a collaborative research study in 2023 with the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Department of Sociology to investigate current and historical perspectives on policing and incarceration in East Hawaiʻi. Students enrolled in a criminology course carried out this research by creating a survey-interview instrument, interviewing 250 local community members, analyzing data, and creating study materials.
Famous Trials is “the Web’s largest and most visited collection of original essays, trial transcripts and exhibits, maps, images, and other materials relating to the greatest trials in world history.”
Law Library of Congress is “a starting point for researching legal topics and recommend relevant materials in the Law Library's collections and online. The Law Library creates research guides that range from animal and landlord-tenant law to instructions for compiling a federal legislative history. Established by Congress in 1832, the Law Library has a collection of over 2.9 million volumes spanning all systems and periods of law and covering all the nations of the world.”
Statistics
Bureau of Justice Statistics is the primary statistical agency of the Department of Justice.
The Office of Justice Programs is “a federal agency that provides federal leadership, grants, training, technical assistance and other resources to improve the nation’s capacity to prevent and reduce crime, assist victims and enhance the rule of law by strengthening the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Its six program offices support state and local crime-fighting efforts, fund thousands of victim service programs, help communities manage sex offenders, address the needs of youth in the system and children in danger, and provide vital research and data.”
The Uniform Crime Reporting Program “generates reliable statistics for use in law enforcement. It also provides information for students of criminal justice, researchers, the media, and the public. The program has been providing crime statistics since 1930.”