'Net Justice

Contents:

General Internet Information

Web Servers and Browsers

Website Design

General Information, Tutorials, and Editors

Clip Art, Graphics, and Backgrounds

Online Testing

General Resources

Examples of Course Materials

Publishers

Introduction

This page is intended to help criminal justice scholars begin to use the World Wide Web in their research and courses. It is not, by any means, comprehensive. However, the links provided here make good starting points, and they will lead to endless more resources.

It is the nature of the internet that this page will be constantly under construction. If you have comments, suggestions, or questions, please e-mail me at phyllisg@toto.csustan.edu. 

General Internet Information

These sites provide a general introduction to the internet and the World Wide Web. A good place to start if you're relatively new to the internet.

• Yahoo! Internet Life Surf School
• Netscape's About the Internet
• Internet Planet

Web browsers allow you to surf the WWW. Servers allow you to set up your own website. At most of the sites below you can download free software.

• Apple's Personal Web Server
• Microsoft's Internet Explorer
• Microsoft's Web Server
• NCSA Mosaic
• Netscape Navigator Gold Includes a web editor
• Quid Pro Quo A free server

These links provide some of the tools and components you can use to create and improve your own web pages. There are a number of good programs available to help you create web pages, but you will probably also want to learn the basics of writing HTML. You will find that HTML is not difficult to learn.

General Information, Tutorials, and Editors

• DWB's Web Authoring Information
• Conversion Programs Software for converting documents to HTML
• Great Website Design Tips
• Netscape's Creating Net Sites
• Web Developer's Virtual Library
• Web Page Authoring
• Web66: Cookbook All the ingredients necessary for setting up a web server
• Web Tools

Clip Art, Graphics, and Backgrounds

• Animated GIFs
• Backgrounds
• Clip Art Connection
• Icons and Clipart
• Lisa Konrad's Animated GIFs

Online Testing

• ESATest
• ParSYSTEM
• PREP Webassessor
• Quizzes Online
• Social Science Software
• WebCT

These sites are good places to begin your research. Any of these sites will, in turn, lead you to hundreds of other criminal justice related sites.

General Resources

• CJ Links (CSU Stanislaus)
• Cecil Greek's CJ Links
• The American System of Criminal Justice
• Justice Center at Univ. of Alaska-Anchorage
• The Justice Home Page
• Justice Page of the Week
• Justice Resource Center at Univ. of Alaska-Fairbanks
• Yahoo's Criminal Justice Index

Examples of Course Materials

• CJ 3100 Legal Reseearh and Writing course at CSu, Stanislaus
• CJ 4230 Juvenile Justice Course at CSU, Stanislaus
• Writing Student Briefs
• Writing Appellate Briefs
• Cecil Greek's CJ Courses
• Frank Schmalleger's Criminal Justice Today Includes on-line exams
• Phil 452I Law, Philosophy, & the Humanities course at CSU Long Beach
• Botany 3700 Biology course at CSU, Stanislaus
• CS 4000 Computer Science course at CSU, Stanislaus

Publishers

• Anderson
• Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Copperhouse Publishing Company
• O'Reilly Lots of good how-to books on web publishing
• Plenum
• Prentice Hall
• Sage

The following resources may be of additional help.

Academic Resource Network Online Database (ARNOLD). Information on scholarly collaborations, faculty exchanges, and position openings.

Barrett, Daniel J. (1997). NetResearch: Finding Information Online. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.

Gerstenfeld, Phyllis B. (in press). 'Net justice: Using the internet for teaching and research in criminal justice.ACJS Today.

Jacobsen, Paul (1997). Net Law: How Lawyers Use the Internet. Sebastopol, CA; O'Reilly.

Leshin, Cynthia B. (1997). Internet Investigations in Criminal Justice. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

Leshin, Cynthia B. (1996). Internet Adventures: Step-by-Step Guide to Finding and Using Educational Resources. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Peck, Susan B. & Arrants, Stephen (1996). Building Your Own Website. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.

Spainhour, Stephen & Valerie, Quercia (1996). WebMaster in a Nutshell. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.

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Last modified 9 October 1997

Questions or comments? Contact phyllisg@toto.csustan.edu