This guide contains a short list of resources that may be helpful for students in CRIM 3305 (Law & Society), taught by Jeffrey Meyers in summer 2022.
If you're not sure what you you want to write about yet, you can look for ideas in these sources:
An essential tool for tracking the progress of Bills through Parliament. All new laws or amendments to existing laws are brought forward as Bills which much be passed by both the House of Commons and the Senate, and receive Royal Assent, before becoming law.
LegisINFO usually includes links to excellent summaries of each bill prepared by the Library of Parliament, as well as other publications (press releases, newspaper articles, etc.) about the proposed law.
Coverage begins in 1994 for House of Commons, and 1996 for Senate.
See the Noting up Legislation page on this legal research guide for tips on locating legal cases and commentary on a specific section of a statute or regulation.
See the Journal Articles tab in the left menu for recommended databases to locate legal journal articles.
Major Canadian newspapers as well as many small-market newspapers.
Some local independent news media:
Government bodies and other organizations publish reports on many topics. Here are a few tools to help you locate them: You'll find many other tools listed on the KPU Library's Government Information research guide.
If you have not found anything useful in the Library's databases (though that's very unlikely!), 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.
The APA Style is the most-commonly used format in the social sciences. See the KPU Library's APA Guide for lots of help.
For tips on citing legal sources in APA style, see the Cite Your Sources page on this legal research guide.
For extensive examples of citing government information sources in APA style, see this SFU Library guide. Please note that it is using the older 6th edition of APA, not the 7th edition.
The "McGill Style" is the most-commonly used format for legal publishing in Canada. See the "Cite Your Sources" tab in the left menu bar for info on this style. Here's the KPU Library's quick guide to McGill-style citation:
Another excellent starting place is the Queen's University Library's Legal Citation guide.
