Criminal Justice Information: How to Find It, How to Use It - Tapa dura

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DENNIS C. BENAMATI is a visiting electronic information services/reference librarian at the University of South Carolina, as well as a library consultant. With extensive experience as a law librarian, his former posts include assistant director for the Dewey Graduate Library at the University at Albany, SUNY ctaloging manager at the University of Connecticut School of Law Library and assistant law librarian at both the University of Maine and Aetna Life & Casualty Co. Mr. Benamati holds a master's degree in library science from Southern Connecticut State University and is the co-author of Teaching Information Literacy in Criminal Justice: Observations from the University at Albany with Adam C. Bouloukos and Graeme R. Newman.

PHYLLIS A. SCHULTZE is an information specialist at the Criminal Justice Library at Rutgers University, where she earned a master's in library science. Ms. Schultze is co-chair of the World Criminal Justice Library Network and vice chair of the library committee for the American Correctional Association. She is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

ADAM C. BOULOUKOS is an Officer in the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division, United Nations Office at Vienna. He acts as systems operator at the United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network and is responsible for the periodic United Nations Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems. He has acted as co-editor of the International Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems. He is a former instructor at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany, SUNY, where he earned a master of arts degree. His doctoral thesis is an analysis of the application of United Nations human rights standards in prisons. Mr. Bouloukos is a member of the American Society of Criminology. (The views expressed by Mr. Bouloukos are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations.)

GRAEME R. NEWMAN is a professor at the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, SUNY. He earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Newman has written numerous books, including Just and Painful: A Case for the Corporal Punishment of Criminals 2d ed. and The Punishment Response 2d ed.