Corrections Administration

Before you begin looking for resources, spend a few minutes developing a research plan. This can help you focus your ideas and help determine where you should start.

• Look at the assignment
  • What are you being required to create?
• What are the key topics?
  • Conflict/ Problem
  • Rehabilitation Process
  • Human perspective
  • Legal Processes involved
• Statistics
  • Example- Do you need to analyze demographics or display rehabilitation success rates?
• Law and Policy
  • Do you need to find specific laws or policies?
  • Do you need government documents, policed files, video, interviews, etc.?

When you search for articles, books, and other information, you need to use keywords. Below is a list of keywords or categories of keywords that could be used in the library databases. You can use this on their own or mix and match them to narrow your results.

• Community Service
• Confinement
• Conflict Resolution
• Convict 
• Correctional Facilities
• Crime
• Criminal Justice
• Crime Control Model
• Juvenile Offenders
• Juvenile Justice
• Law Enforcement
• Mediation
• Mentor, Mentoring, Mentorship
• Offenders
• Parole
• Penology
• Policing and Community Policing
• Prison
• Probation
• Public Policy
• Security