JS 169 Senior SeminarStudy in Contemporary Justice Issues

I. Announcements and AssignmentsReview of Assignments- DQs and TCIsCho and Sankar and Shriver due 020112

– Read- Lazar, D. 2004. DNA and the criminal justice system. Chapter 7: Genetic Privacy- George Annas.

– (DQs and TCIs Due Date- 020112 by noon by email- Bring hard copy to class on 020112

II. Creating a Working Bibliography for ResearchReview of APA format Professor – Demonstration of compilation of

Primary and Secondary Sources – Publication on Y

chromosome research.

III. Student led discussions on Cho and Sankar and Shriver

Announcements and Assignments

• Pre-class activities - 1330-1340– Collect folders- You place in alphabetical order– Collect Assignments Cho and Sankar if you completed them

• Assignments – Note- You need to answer your discussion questions- you can do this in

your TCIs– Due date for DQs and TCIS are always on day of class due– Cho and Sanker and Shiver due 020112– New assignment– Lazar, D. 2004. DNA and the criminal justice system. Chapter 7:

Genetic Privacy- George Annas.– (DQs and TCIs Due Date- Monday 020612

Searching for primary refs Online• www.sjlibrary.org

– Health and Life Sciences:• Pubmed, • Citations and abstracts from biomedical journals published in the

U.S. and 70 other countries, dating back to the mid-1960's. Most records are from English-language sources or have English abstracts. More details

• Science Direct• Full-text articles, primarily science, technology and medicine (STM).

Covers a few journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences; also includes some reference e-books. More details | (SJSU Only)

Searching for primary refs Online

– Government and Law:• LEXIS/NEXIS• Complete text of newspapers, magazines, newswires, transcripts of TV

and radio news, trade publications, laws and court cases. "Foreign Language News" section includes articles in Spanish, French, Dutch, Italian & German. Company information includes annual reports (NAARS), SEC Reports, and Hoover profiles. More details | (SJSU Only)

• JSTOR• Electronic archive of older (at least 2-5 years) issues of core scholarly

journals; coverage includes the Biological Sciences, Botany, Business, Ecology, General Science, Humanities, Language, Literature, Mathematics, Music, Social Sciences and Statistics.

Searching for primary refs OnlineOther web search engines

• Professional Societies and Academies- eg www.aafs.org, www.cacnews.org

• Annual Reviews- www.annualreviews.org/ • Proceedings from recent meetings (mainly abstracts – however

good source of identifying organizations and university experts)• Ebooks- www.sjlibrary.org/research/ebooks • NCJRS – www.ncjrs.org• Visit the libraries (UCB Melvyl and Gladis)• http://scholar.google.com/• www.yahoo.com, and other search engines are often very useful

APA Formatting and Style Guide

• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

APA style requires authors to use the past tense or present perfect tense when using signal phrases to describe earlier research. E.g., Jones (1998) found or Jones (1998) has found

When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, E.g., (Jones, 1998), and a complete reference should appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.

APA style dictates that authors are named last name followed by initials; publication year goes between parentheses, followed by a period. The title of the article is in sentence-case, meaning only the first word and proper nouns in the title are capitalized. The periodical title is run in title case, and is followed by the volume number which, with the title, is also italicized or underlined.

Author, A. A., Author, B. B., & Author, C. C. (Year). Title of article. Title of Periodical, volume number(issue number), pages.

Journals that are paginated by volume begin with page one in issue one, and continue numbering issue two where issue one ended, etc.

Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for preparing psychology journal articles. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55, 893-896.

Online articles follow the same guidelines for printed articles. Include all information the online host makes available, including an issue number in parentheses. Provide a retrieval date only if the information is likely to be updated or changed at a later date (as in the case of blogs and wikis). Since many online periodicals appear in their "final" form, a retrieval date is not necessary.

Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of article. Title of Online Periodical, volume number(issue number if available). Retrieved month day, year, (if necessary) from http://www.someaddress.com/full/url/

Bernstein, M. (2002). 10 tips on writing the living Web. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites, 149. Retrieved May 2, 2006, from http://www.alistapart.com/articles/writeliving

APA exercise• In your teams cite the following article in APA

format. Complete the exercise and write the citation in your notes. Indicate when you are done.

• A comparative analysis of two different sets of Y-chromosome short tandem repeats (Y-STRs) on a common population panel.

• Maybruck JL, Hanson E, Ballantyne J, Budowle B, Fuerst PA.

• Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2009 Dec;4(1):11-20. 2009

Y Short tandem repeats in forensic DNA casework

• Sjlibrary.org

• Pubmed

• Science direct

• JSTOR

• LEXIS/NEXIS

Cho and Sankar (next class)• Cho, M and P. Sankar. 2004. Forensic genetics and

ethical, legal and social implications beyond the clinic. Nature Genetics Supplement.36(11):S8-S12.

• Student Led discussion on Cho and Sankar• Team discussion to identify most critical issues (top 3

from your team)• Provide from your team 3 DQs related to the TCIs• Discussion leaders to gather information from team

leaders and select 1 DQ per team• Open and lead discussion on DQs