Legal and Justice Studies Workbook

This practical, skills-based book is jam-packed with useful information, strategies and tips to help legal and justice studies students. It explains how to research law and justice and how to examine them within their wider contexts. Readers will learn:legal research skills to find legislation, cases and analysis; humanities and social sciences research skills for cross-disciplinary perspective; search strategies for advisors, advocates, analysts, academics and activists;how to use traditional and electronic resources; andhow to manage time on- and off-line. It also teaches skills that will save time in essay and report writing and in preparing oral presentations: establishing the central argument; writing formally and objectively; using opinion and dissenting views; and taking account of the needs and expectations of the reader or audience. Perhaps best of all, this workbook covers all those thorny questions: how many references should be used? when and how to quote without plagiarising or infringing copyright; how to use non-discriminatory language; the difference between quantitative and qualitative data; what methodology should be used; and how to tell the difference between lies, damned lies and statistics.