Here are a few examples of books in the library that you can borrow. You can find more using the library catalogue.
TIP: Use the word JUVENILE in addition to YOUTH to find more items in the library catalogue, and in many research databases.
This guide was created for students in Petra Jonas' CRIM 2249 (Youth Justice) course in spring 2020.
For written assignment, you need to use at least 5 peer-reviewed, research-based journal articles. For your group presentation, you must locate statistics on youth crime and homelessness, as well as a media story, and examples of youth programs and services. |
This short guide will help you to:
Peer-reviewed journals are often called scholarly or academic journals. They are different from popular magazines. Articles in peer-reviewed journals:
This one-page checklist compares scholarly journals with popular and trade magazines in Criminology:
DO NOT rely on the 'peer-reviewed' checkbox in a database to be completely accurate! Why not? It is only a rough filter that tells you whether a journal includes some peer-reviewed articles. Most peer-reviewed journals include a mixture of different kinds of articles, including short pieces such as book reviews and editorials. These short pieces do NOT go through the same peer-review process as the rest of the articles in the journal, but they will still be included in the peer-reviewed results by a database. Always look at the article for the typical features of a scholarly article such as an abstract and extensive in-text citations. |
Title of the article | Impacts of drinking-age legislation on alcohol-impaired driving crimes among young people in Canada, 2009-13 |
Authors |
Russell C. Callaghan, Jodi M. Gatley, Marcos Sanches, Mark Asbridge, and Tim Stockwell |
Title of the journal | Addiction |
Date | June 2016 |
Volume and issue numbers | vol. 111, no. 6 |
Page numbers | 994-1003 |
DOI | 10.1111/add.13310 |
Abstract excerpt |
Background and aim: In Canada, the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA) is 18 years in Alberta, Manitoba and Québec and 19 in the rest of the country. Given that public health organizations have not only recommended increasing the MLDA to 19 years, but also have identified 21 years as ideal, the current study tested whether drivers slightly older than the MLDA had significant and abrupt increases in alcohol-impaired driving (AID) crimes, compared with their counterparts just younger than the MLDA. ... Conclusion: Release from drinking-age restrictions appears to be associated with increases in alcohol-impaired driving offenses among young drivers in Canada, ranging from 28 to 43% among males and from 19 to 40% among females. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
APA-formatted citation for this article:
How I found this article:
I found this article by searching in the research database called Criminal Justice Abstracts using this combination of search keywords:
(youth OR young OR juvenile OR adolescen*) AND crim* AND Canad*
Juvenile delinquents -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada
Juvenile justice, Administration of -- Canada -- History
e.g. "Youth Criminal Justice Act"
If you have not found anything useful in the Library's databases, you may want to check Google Scholar.
Google Scholar lists articles from a wide variety of scholarly journals. It also includes references to book chapters and many other types of sources.
Google Scholar does not usually provide the full-text for articles for free, so you might get prompted to pay for access to an article.
Do not pay for articles! It's quite likely that the KPU Library subscribes to the journal. If we don't, we can get it for you free of charge.
Look up the journal title here to find out if it's available through KPU Library:
This search will ONLY tell you whether Kwantlen users have access to a specific journal title, and link you to a list of available issues.
This tool will NOT search for individual articles on a specific topic in these journals. For that, you need to use a Research Database. (Try the recommended databases in the first tab of this box first.)
You can request a copy from another library using our interlibrary loan service at no charge. We do the searching and can deliver most articles to you via email within 2 business days.
Search Tip: To find a Juristat article on a specific topic, DON'T use the Juristat site. Instead, go to the Statistics Canada Analysis Search form, then enter your search term(s) and the word JURISTAT in the search box, like in this screenshot:
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Integrated Criminal Court Survey: Interactive Dashboard on Preliminary Quarterly Data
Embedded dashboard below provides quick and up-to-date stats and charts from Statistics Canada. If you don't see the dashboard, click on the link above to view larger version on the Statcan website.
Correctional Services Statiistics: Interactive Dashboard
Embedded dashboard below provides quick and up-to-date stats and charts from Statistics Canada. If you don't see the dashboard, click on the link above to view larger version on the Statcan website.
APA citation for this video:
Wilfred Laurier University Library. (2018). Finding statistics using StatCan's data portal [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/azTz_rVRsZQ
For your group presentation, you will need to "try to find programs/services that are available to youth in the province who are in trouble with the law."
Suggested Summon search keywords: YOUTH CRIME SERVICES [PROVINCE NAME]
Limit your Summon search results to the content type "Newspaper Article"
Notes:
Example of APA citation for government report made available through the Canadian Public Documents Collection (CPDC) database provided through the Canadian Electronic Library on the desLibris platform. Note: this e-book is also a government report:
Note: desLibris's CPDC database is simply providing a different route to access a government report that is also freely-available online, Most people won't have access to this database. So, I would highly recommend looking up the original online publication on the government website and citing it directly. Here is what that citation would look like:
Note: I found the report's catalogue number when I searched for the title of the report using Google. The first Google search result took me to the Publications Canada catalogue which provided extra descriptive information, plus a permanent link to the PDF.
Notes:
Note: the name of the website is included, in addition to the URL, because it provides helpful information to the reader about which government agency produced the report
For more examples, see the KPU Library's APA Guide, especially the section on Reports. The SFU Library also has a fairly detailed guide on Citing Canadian Government Documents in APA Style.
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Note: if there is no individual author credited on the report, list the issuing organization as the author
Note: Juristat is an unusual journal. Most journals publish a fixed number of issues each year (with separate issue numbers), and each issue contains several articles. Juristat publishes individual articles, one at a time, online. Every article in a given year has the same volume and issue number. When you cite Juristat, you can treat it either like a journal or like a government report, because it is both. I prefer to cite it as a government report.
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