Accounts
Criminal Justice 348
Course Specific Resources
Reference and Background
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts and Full Text Publications
Contains summaries of 180,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, and journal articles.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information.
Supreme Court Opinions
Supreme Court of the United States - Search Center
Wisconsin Supreme Court Opinions - Search (keyword searching available at bottom of page)
Blogs
On Point - blog on Wisconsin case law prepared by the Wisconsin Public Defender’s Office
Websites
State of Wisconsin Department of Corrections
Citing court cases in APA style
Helpful Guide from California State University
*Discussion on the citing of legal materials in APA format is covered in in the appendix to
chapter 7 in the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
which can be found at the Polk101 reference desk in the library.
Periodicals
Detention and Corrections Caselaw Quarterly (click on 'View it' then open the link to the database.)
Other Government information
You can find cases online by restricting your google searches to within government publications. Simply type in the name of the case, then "site:.gov"
For example: Wilkins V. Gaddy site:.gov
Years 1991-2009 Are posted online at the official Supreme Court website. They are listed by Volume number.