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Course Guide: Seminar on Crime in Latin America (LAST 396-06)

Spring 2008
Instructor: Richard Conway

For additional research assistance after today's session, contact:

Sean Knowlton, Reference Librarian & Bibliographer, The Latin American Library
Sean@Tulane.edu
504-247-1870

Develop Your Research Strategy

Develop you topic and get background information Identify your information need Scholarly articles in journals and books Books Newspaper articles (Current and/or historical) Statistics Government documents Interviews Identify your resources Reference works Web portals / web sites Library catalogs Article Databases Bibliographies & Works Cited Consider using a bibliographic management tool, like RefWorks

Keywords & LC Subject Headings

Create a list of possible terms. Include synonyms, broader terms, and narrower terms: kidnap? colombia? music? crime? brazil? / favela? music? funk? gang? mara? salvatrucha? legisla? Do keyword searches in Tulane's Libraries Catalog. Identify relevant Subject Headings. Add Subject Headings to your working list of search terms. Use LC Subject Headings to effectively search: Tulane University Libraries Catalog WorldCat HLAS Web Interlibrary Loan: ILLiad

 

Suggested Subject Headings for your topics

Crime / Government Crime --Latin America Crime --Latin America --Prevention Crime prevention -- Latin America Crime --Government policy --Latin America Crime -- Central America Crime and globalization Criminal justice, Administration of --Latin America Police -- Latin America Violence --Latin America Violence --Latin America --Case studies El Salvador -- Politics and Government El Salvador--Emigration and immigration Kidnapping Kidnapping -- Colombia Kidnapping Victims -- Colombia Political Kidnapping -- Colombia

Places Brazil Colombia Panama (Panama) Central America Latin America South America El Salvador San Salvador (El Salvador) Gangs / Drugs Gangs --El Salvador Gang members --El Salvador --Social conditions Gangs -- Central America Gangs --United States Drug traffic--Central America Music Music -- Brazil Funk (Music) -- Social aspects -- Brazil Funk (Music) -- Brazil Rap (Music) -- Brazil Social Problems -- Brazil Popular Music -- Brazil

Major Latin American Studies Databases (Guide: Latin American Studies) [Off Campus? Log in to access Tulane Subscription Databases] HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodical Index) Truncation: none needed. Type "hispan" to find all variations. HAPI offers authoritative information about Latin America, the US-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the US. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI Online contains complete bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Coverage: 1970 - present. [Tulane Subscription] NOTE: HAPI does not use LC Subject Headings. Instead of "Music -- Social Aspects," try "Music and Society - Brasil" HLAS Web (1990 - present) (Handbook of Latin American Studies) Truncation symbol: ? A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress.

 

Guides to Consult Statistics Political Science & Government Dissertations Newspapers

Citing Your Sources RefWorks (Manage your bibliographies and citations online)[Tulane Subscription] Citation & Writing Guides (Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University)