Researching Hot Topics: Crime

Crime AND:

• Prevention OR intervention
• Youth OR juvenile
• Violence OR drugs 
• Corrections OR punishment OR punitive
• Laws OR legislation OR policy
• Poverty

Police OR policing OR law enforcement AND:

• Accountability OR transparency
• Use of force
• Discrimination OR racism
• Training
• Abolish OR reform

Incarceration OR imprisonment AND:

• Sentencing
• Racial justice
• Youth justice
• Gender justice
• Voting rights

More videos can be found in the following library databases:

• Academic Video Online
• Films on Demand
• Kanopy

Search for books and more using Primo, the library's one search tool:

Or go directly to Primo Search for more options.

Suggested eBooks:

• Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations
• The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences
• Key Concepts in Crime and Society
• Trends in Policing Volume 6: Interviews With Police Leaders Across the Globe
• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?: Police Violence and Resistance in the United States

Articles are good sources of current studies, reports, data, & statistics

Research databases contain articles from magazines, scholarly/academic journals, and trade journals.

To find articles about crime, start here:

• Academic Search Complete
• Civil Rights and Social Justice
• Legal Collection
• Statista - The Portal for Statistics 

If you are looking for local newspaper articles, try using ProQuest News & Newspapers. Be sure to include Hawaii as one of your search terms.

• ProQuest US West Newsstream Full-text articles includes the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Honolulu Advertiser, and Honolulu Star-Bulletin