For this assignment, you need to select scholarly peer-reviewed articles from Criminal Justice journals. If you're not sure if it's a criminal justice journal, try googling the title and look for an about us or other info about the journal's focus.
Select current enough articles & articles that focus on the United States. You can set a date limit from the menu on the left.
Use these Holman Library databases to search for scholarly articles on criminal justice topics:
Find an article abstract with no full text at Holman Library? Don't worry! You can try to borrow it for free from another library using the InterLibrary Loan link below.
Images below show a search of two key ideas: "ineffective assistance of counsel" AND race OR racism.
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To find full text articles:
Step 1: Search the journal index on its online website
Step 2: Write down the volume, issue and year of the journal you want, along with the article title.
Step 3: Walk to the magazine and periodicals shelves in the library and locate the issue and full-text article you want.
You can find some good scholarly criminal justice articles for this assignment in free legal archives online, but be aware that much of the content is not peer reviewed and some of it is not scholarly.
The burden of proof rests on you to determine if the article is scholarly.