JS 159 Senior Seminar Study in Contemporary Justice Issues

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JS 159 Senior SeminarStudy in Contemporary
Justice Issues

• Announcements and Assignments
• Review of Assignments- DQs and TCIs
• Collect Assignments- Cho and Sankar
• Next reading Shriver, M, Frudakis, and B.
  Budowle. 2005. Getting the science and the ethics
  right in forensic genetics. Nature Genetics 37(5)
  449-450 Due 090708
• Lazar, D. 2004. DNA and the criminal justice
  system. Chapter 7 Genetic Privacy- George
  Annas.
• (DQs and TCIs Due Date- Tuesday 09/09/08 by 3pm-
  by email)
• Creating a Working Bibliography for ResearcH
• Review of APA format
• Professor Demonstration of compilation of
  Primary and Secondary Sources Publication on Y
  chromosome research.
• Student led discussion on Cho and Sankar

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Announcements and Assignments

• Pre-class activities - 130-145
• Collect Folders- You place in alphabetical order
• Collect Assignments Cho and Sankar
• Assignments
• DQs and TCIs for Shriver et al. 2005 (posted to
  my website)
• Write 3 DQs and 3 TCIs for Shriver et al. 2005.-
  Due 09/07/08
• Note- You need to answer your discussion
  questions.
• Due date is posted in the powerpoints on line
• New assignment
• Lazar, D. 2004. DNA and the criminal justice
  system. Chapter 7 Genetic Privacy- George
  Annas.
• (DQs and TCIs Due Date- Tuesday 09/09/08 by 3pm-
  by email)

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Searching for primary refs Online

• www.sjlibrary.org
• Health and Life Sciences
• Pubmed,
• Citations and abstracts from biomedical journals
  published in the U.S. and 70 other countries,
  dating back to the mid-1960's. Most records are
  from English-language sources or have English
  abstracts. More details
• Science Direct
• Full-text articles, primarily science, technology
  and medicine (STM). Covers a few journals in the
  arts, humanities and social sciences also
  includes some reference e-books. More details
  (SJSU Only)

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Searching for primary refs Online

• Government and Law
• LEXIS/NEXIS
• Complete text of newspapers, magazines,
  newswires, transcripts of TV and radio news,
  trade publications, laws and court cases.
  "Foreign Language News" section includes articles
  in Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian German.
  Company information includes annual reports
  (NAARS), SEC Reports, and Hoover profiles. More
  details (SJSU Only)
• JSTOR
• Electronic archive of older (at least 2-5 years)
  issues of core scholarly journals coverage
  includes the Biological Sciences, Botany,
  Business, Ecology, General Science, Humanities,
  Language, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Social
  Sciences and Statistics.

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Searching for primary refs OnlineOther web
search engines

• Professional Societies and Academies- eg
  www.aafs.org, www.cacnews.org
• Annual Reviews- www.annualreviews.org/
• Proceedings from recent meetings (mainly
  abstracts however good source of identifying
  organizations and university experts)
• Ebooks- www.sjlibrary.org/research/ebooks
• NCJRS www.ncjrs.org
• Visit the libraries (UCB Melvyl and Gladis)
• http//scholar.google.com/
• www.yahoo.com, and other search engines are often
  very useful

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APA Formatting and Style Guide

• http//owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

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APA style requires authors to use the past tense
or present perfect tense when using signal
phrases to describe earlier research. E.g., Jones
(1998) found or Jones (1998) has foundWhen
using APA format, follow the author-date method
of in-text citation. This means that the author's
last name and the year of publication for the
source should appear in the text, E.g., (Jones,
1998), and a complete reference should appear in
the reference list at the end of the paper.
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APA style dictates that authors are named last
name followed by initials publication year goes
between parentheses, followed by a period. The
title of the article is in sentence-case, meaning
only the first word and proper nouns in the title
are capitalized. The periodical title is run in
title case, and is followed by the volume number
which, with the title, is also italicized or
underlined.Author, A. A., Author, B. B.,
Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of
Periodical, volume number(issue number),
pages.Journals that are paginated by volume
begin with page one in issue one, and continue
numbering issue two where issue one ended,
etc.Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for
preparing psychology journal articles. Journal of
Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55,
893-896.
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Online articles follow the same guidelines for
printed articles. Include all information the
online host makes available, including an issue
number in parentheses. Provide a retrieval date
only if the information is likely to be updated
or changed at a later date (as in the case of
blogs and wikis). Since many online periodicals
appear in their "final" form, a retrieval date is
not necessary. Author, A. A., Author, B. B.
(Date of publication). Title of article. Title of
Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if
available). Retrieved month day, year, (if
necessary) from http//www.someaddress.com/full/ur
l/ Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the
living Web. A List Apart For People Who Make
Websites, 149. Retrieved May 2, 2006, from
http//www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving
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Y Short tandem repeats in forensic DNA casework

• Sjlibrary.org
• Pubmed
• Science direct
• JSTOR
• LEXIS/NEXIS

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Cho and Sankar

• Cho, M and P. Sankar. 2004. Forensic genetics and
  ethical, legal and social implications beyond the
  clinic. Nature Genetics Supplement.36(11)S8-S12.
• Student Led discussion on Cho and Sankar
• Team discussion to identify most critical issues
  (top 3 from your team)
• Provide from your team 3 DQs related to the TCIs
• Discussion leaders to gather information from
  team leaders and select 1 DQ per team
• Open and lead discussion on DQs