Criminal Law Project Pathfinder
Created by Mrs. Alison Connelly, Librarian Ipswich High/Middle School
The resources below will help you with the research for this project. Remember that ALL resources must
be cited using MLA format. Easybib is a free Automatic Bibliography and Citation Maker that can help
you create your work cite page.
E-books - found on the school library website
Gale Virtual Reference Library- Search using Topic words such as Law and Supreme Court
Databases - found on the school library website
Gale Criminal Justice Collection - What is Criminal Justice Collection? Whether studying to become a
lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises
to the challenge. Users will have access to hundreds of full-text journals.
US History in Context – U.S. History in Context delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search
results from the most extensive online collection of historical information available today.
Websites
Anatomy of a Murder: A Trip through Our Nation's Legal Justice System.
http://library.thinkquest.org/2760/
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and
drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
https://www.ncjrs.gov/whatsncjrs.html
Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute
This site is useful for researching your legal issues. The site contains many "Law About" topic entries
with general background information on different legal subjects and a few "Topical Libraries" on issues
such as social security and legal ethics. The site is especially useful for searching for United States
Supreme Court opinions, Federal Circuit court opinions, and the United States Code.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
FindLaw This site contains many subject guides to specific areas of law, links for finding lawyers, and law
related news and information. The site is a product of Thomson/West, a legal publishing company.
http://www.findlaw.com/
Nolo.com Self-help law publisher site. Contains a useful law encyclopedia and dictionary geared toward
the non-attorney. http://www.nolo.com/dictionary
landmarkcases.org - Street Law, Inc. developed landmarkcases.org in 2002, with funding from the
Supreme Court Historical Society to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to
support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases. http://www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark/home
Supreme Court Historical Society - The Society, a private non-profit organization, is dedicated to the
collection and preservation of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
A selection of annotated links to the most reliable, substantive sites for U.S. Supreme Court research. The
sites mentioned here focus predominantly on information that is freely, or inexpensively, available on the
Internet.
Books in the School Library
Search the school’s library for books using the electronic catalog Destiny . Use search terms such as; Law, Criminal
Justice, and Supreme Court
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------Mapp v. Ohio
367 U.S. 643 (1961)
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1960/1960_236
Arizona v.Hicks
480 U.S. 321 (1987)
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1986/1986_85_1027
Terry v. Ohio
392 U.S. 1 (1968)
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1967/1967_67
Chimel v. California
395 U.S. 752 (1969)
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1968/1968_770
United States v. Leon
468 U.S. 897 (1984)
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1980-1989/1983/1983_82_1771
Gideon v. Wainright
372 U.S. 335 (1963)
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1962/1962_155
Escobedo v. Illinois
378 U.S. 478 (1964)
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1963/1963_615
Miranda v. Arizona
384 U.S. 436 (1966)
http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1965/1965_759
Hiibel v. Nevada
542 U.S. 177 (2004)
http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2003/2003_03_5554