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Public Safety & Law Enforcement Leadership: Background Information

Introductory guide to the University of St. Thomas library for students in Public Safety & Law Enforcement Leadership

Introduction

Articles chop up your topic into little, narrow questions. If you find 5 articles, each presenting a narrow study, it's often hard to see how they fit together and what question they are all trying to answer. But encyclopedias and handbooks

  • Give you overviews of your topic
  • Lead you to the important questions asked by researchers.
  • Contain articles written by experts in their fields.
  • Put your idea or question into a historical, research, or social context.
  • Lead you to further references.

Oxford Reference Resources online

Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences

Great overviews of current issues in law and social sciences. Both  historical and current research on hot topics in public safey. If you find an article on your topic here, you've scored big time! Use InterLibrary Loan if we don't have the article.

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Electronic Reference Sources--Blackwell Resources

Subject Guide

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