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This resource is an archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence, comprising nearly 1,000 unique titles and more than 1.2 million total pages dedicated to American Indian Law.

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American Prison Newspapers brings together hundreds of prison periodicals from across the country into one collection that represents penal institutions of all kinds, with special attention paid to women's-only institutions.
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Free access to over 100,000 talks from Business, Computer Science, and the Legal communities. Produced by Elsevier.

Business & Legal Aspects of Sports & Entertainment (BLASE) is based on the topical arrangement of 8,000 scholarly articles, presenting a comprehensive treatment of business and legal aspects of sports and entertainment. The database includes government documents, ebooks, and bibliographies.

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The Civil Rights and Social Justice collection contains 650+ titles from the United States Commission on Civil Rights, nearly 1,000 congressional hearings, civil rights legislative histories, and nearly 1,400 books, reports, and publications.

Learn about major issues from current and historical perspectives and the inner workings of the U.S. government from authoritative, accessible, and unbiased sources..

Includes reference narratives and documents on elections, parties, voter behavior, and campaigns. Extract election results by: candidate, office, locality, and race type over time. Access U.S. election results across states.

Journal articles, books, reports from government and non-governmental agencies in criminology and related disciplines.
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The Criminal Justice Collection has more than 250 journals covering the topics of studying law, law enforcement and terrorism, training for paralegal service, preparing for a career in homeland security, delving into forensic science, investigating crime scenes, developing policy, going to court, writing sociological reports, and much more.
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Explore topical explanations about using data, including exploring and finding data, evaluating datasets, understanding data visualizations, how to write about statistics, and the responsible use of data.

Provides access to an extensive repository of standardized and structured statistical data in 16 major categories: Agriculture and Food; Banking, Finance, and Insurance; Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement; Education; Energy Resources and Industries; Government and Politics; Health and Vital Statistics; Housing and Construction; Industry, Business, and Commerce; International Relations and Trade; Labor and Employment; Military and Defense; Natural Resources and Environment; Population and Income; Prices, Consumption, and Cost of Living; Transportation and Traffic

HeinOnline’s interactive edition of Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic Democracy in America was developed in collaboration with Alan Keely, Associate Director for Collection Services from Wake Forest Law Library. The text contains more than 1,000 annotations and references. It provides full-text links to the works Tocqueville read while he researched and wrote Democracy in America. Users have access to historical content and can seamlessly jump to a linked secondary work referenced in Tocqueville’s work.

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Included are 500+ periodicals, key compiled federal legislative histories, relevant congressional hearings, CRS Reports, Supreme Court briefs, and more. An extensive bibliography, and a balanced selection of external resources to further research this subject are also provided.

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Hall of Justice, a project of the Sunlight Foundation, is a robust, searchable inventory of publicly available criminal justice datasets and research. While not comprehensive, Hall of Justice contains nearly 10,000 datasets and research documents from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories and the federal government. The data was collected between September 2014 and October 2015.

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Human Rights Studies Online includes 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of video about victims of human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries. The collection provides primary and secondary materials for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than 30 additional subjects.
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This database contains the National Archives and Records Administration's complete collection of records on President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Also included are books, hearings, other related works, and scholarly articles on this topic.

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JSTOR Reveal Digital is a crowd-funded open access resource consisting of curated collections of primary source documents. Currently, there are 3 collections available:
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American Prison Newspapers, 1800 - 2020
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From May 25, 2020 through the end of 2020, 36 states and Washington D.C. introduced more than 700 bills addressing policy accountability, nearly 100 of which were enacted. NCSL, with support from Arnold Ventures, has produced a database of law enforcement statutes covering a number of policy areas that play a key role in law enforcement effectiveness and accountability.

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LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,200 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals, including more than 200 titles in full text.
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The National Conference of State Legislatures provides you with up-to-date, real-time information on law enforcement legislation that has been introduced in the 50 states and the District of Columbia covering: Executive Orders, Oversight and Data, Policing Alternatives and Collaboration, Technology, Training, Standards and Certification, Use of Force, and other issues.

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LGBTQ+ Rights charts the gay rights movement in America, showing the civil rights codified into law in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as the inequalities that still exist today. All titles in this collection are divided into six subcollections, whose areas of focus constitute Marriage and Family, Employment Discrimination, Military Service, AIDS and Health Care, and Public Spaces and Accommodations. A separate subcollection, Historical Attitudes and Analysis, presents books, pamphlets, reports, and more from the 18th century through the mid-20th century. Content in this subcollection includes accounts of individuals criminally tried for their sexuality to attempts to find a medical cause for homosexuality.

Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies looks at the history of incarceration not only in the United States but also globally. The resource explores main themes and events related to mass incarceration and the history of prisons by providing multiple perspectives and points of entry: court cases; prison experience: first-hand accounts; law and government documents; rehabilitation; training materials; policing and law; prison and identity, and theory.
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Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

The NSSL covers the changes that have happened in many areas of law since 2015. It provides an overall view of some of the most-asked about and controversial legal topics in the United States: abortion, the right to die, gun control, prayer in public schools, marijuana, marriage, personal income tax, drunk driving, capital punishment, right to work, lemon laws, leases and other agreements, child custody, legal ages, and many other areas. Presented in chart format, NSSL allows users to make basic state-by-state comparisons of current state laws.

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Search inside H2O's open collection of 384 casebooks, 8,094 legal documents, and 147 authors, or view featured casebooks.

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Slavery and the Law features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. These petitions were collected by Loren Schweninger over a four year period from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies in 10 states and the District of Columbia. The petitions document the realities of slavery at the most immediate local level and with amazing candor. Slavery and the Law also includes the important State Slavery Statutes collection, a comprehensive record of the laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.
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The U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library includes documents for Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon, and Donald Trump. This new collection brings together documents both contemporaneous and asynchronous to each president’s impeachment, presenting both a snapshot of the political climate as each played out and the long view history has taken of past proceedings.

Congressional Research Service reports round out a general discussion of presidential impeachment, and a curated list of scholarly articles, external links, and a bibliography provide avenues for further research on this topic.

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Full text journals from the University of Chicago Press covering the topics of: Art and Art History, Economics, Education, History, Humanities, Law and Politics, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Science, and Social Sciences.

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HeinOnline's Water Rights & Resources touches on a wide range of water issues, including irrigation, hydropower, water conservation, drinking water quality, and tribal water rights, encompassing the unique water rights issues that span from the Eastern seaboard to the Great Lakes and across the arid West. The collection contains congressional documents, books, legislative histories on major legislation, and Supreme Court briefs on related cases.

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World Constitutions Illustrated includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for all countries.

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