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CJA is a key source for criminal justice and criminology topics covering over 400 journals with full text of 300 magazines and journals including cited references.
Search keywords and sociological thesaurus terms for articles on all sociology topics with full text from 300 journals plus books, monographs and conference papers.
Empirical articles are those in which authors report on their own study. The authors will have collected data to answer a research question. Empirical research contains observed and measured examples that inform or answer the research question. The data can be collected in a variety of ways such as interviews, surveys, questionnaires, observations, and various other quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Section |
Definition |
Abstract |
A short synopsis of the article’s content |
Introduction |
Need and rational of this particular research project with research question, statement, and hypothesis. |
Literature Review (sometimes included in the Introduction) |
Supporting their ideas with other scholarly research |
Methods |
Describes the methodology including a description of the participants, and a description of the research method, measure, research design, or approach to data analysis. |
Results or Findings |
Uses narrative, charts, tables, graphs, or other graphics to describe the findings of the paper |
Discussion/Conclusion/Implications |
Provides a discussion, summary, or conclusion, bringing together the research question, statement, |
References |
References all the articles discussed and cited in the paper- mostly in the literature or results sections |
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