CJPI creates a virtual magazine rack of full-text criminology and criminal justice articles for students and professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, social work, drug rehabilitation, criminal and family law, industrial security, and other criminal justice fields. There is also Online indexing and abstracts for 150 U.S. and international journals covering a broad range of criminal justice issues.

Criminal Justice Periodical Index is available to current UT Arlington faculty and students via this webaddresses:

http://eresource.uta.edu/cgi-bin/db-cjpi.cgi

Searching

A truncation symbol in Criminal Justice Periodical Index is an asterisk (*), and when this symbol is put at the end of a word, the database will be searched for all of the possible endings--suffixes--for that word. For example, the command CRIM* will search for the words crime, criminal, criminalize, etc.

Two Boolean operators that are important in finding information are AND and OR. The AND is used to connect two different concepts and the OR is used between concepts that are synonymous. It is critical to put parentheses around a search expression that contains an OR. Here is an example:

(JUVEN* OR DELINQ* OR RUNAWAY*) AND (PROGRAM* OR POLICY OR POLICIES)

The first part of this statement will find material about the juveniles, delinquency, and runaways. The second part will look for the words "program" or "programs" or "policy" or "policies". The AND then links the first set with the second. This should be an effective way to look for programs or policies for the youthful offenders.

John Dillard, Social Sciences Librarian
dillard@uta.edu
cell: (817) 675-8962 -- office: (817) 272-7518