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Criminal Justice Information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Linda Gorman)
Thu Jan 22 20:46:51 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:11:40 -0600
From: Linda Gorman <lgorman@oryxpress.com>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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I thought our new publication may be of benefit to your subscribers. If
allowed, please feel free to post to the listserv, or if you would like
more information, please feel free to contact me.
To learn more about this title, please visit
http://www.oryxpress.com/scripts/book.idc?acro=CJI
The criminal justice world is brimming with new information, statistics,
analyses, and findings available in a variety of formats. Given this
reality, what types of information are available? How and where can they
be found? What are the growing trends? What are reliable sources?
Criminal Justice Information: How to Find it, How to Use It answers these
questions by offering guidance on finding and evaluating the myriad
criminal justice information sources currently available.
As coauthor Dennis C. Benamati maintains, "The book is a comprehensive
guide to finding, using, and evaluating criminal justice information."
Indeed, it guides the researcher toward a wide variety of information
resources, including print, electronic, and online sources, including the
most extensive listing of World Wide Web sites, Internet resources,
databases, and other online information available on crime-related topics.
One often overlooked resource is the criminal justice specialist, hence the
authors devote an entire chapter to resources to mine this neglected
information source.
Criminal Justice Information not only leads researchers to the sources, it
also gives them the necessary tools for evaluating that information.
"There is a lot of information available, especially on the Internet, that
has not gone through peer review," asserts Benamati. "People may find this
information and not really know the authenticity of that information."
This guide is the first of its kind to offer methods for evaluating these
resources.
Linda Gorman, Publicist
The Oryx Press
Telephone: 602/265-2651, ext. 641
Fax: 602/265-6250
http://www.oryxpress.com
