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An Annotated Bibliography of Theses: the College of Criminal Justice DOCUMENT RESUME ED 346 875 IR 054 089 AUTHOR Grande, Peter J.; Wood, Richard J. TITLE An Annotated BJ.bliography of Theses: The College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University, 1965-1990. PUB DATE Apr 92 NOTE 203p. PUB TYPE Reference Materials - Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC09 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Annotated Bibliographies; Correctional Institutions; Court Litigation; *Criminal Law; Federal Legislation; Higher Education; Legal Responsibility; *Masters Theses; Public Policy; State Legislation IDENTIFIERS *Criminal Justice; *Sam Houston University TX; Texas; United States ABSTRACT A description of Sam Houston University and the College of Criminal Justice introduces this annotated bibliography, which provides a single comprehensive listing of the master's degree theses written by students in the criminal justice program from its establishment in 1965 through 1990. Several 1991 theses are included although their call numbers were not yet available. The theses are listed in alphabetical order by author, and a subject index with standardized subject headings based on the Library of Congress subject headings is provided to facilitate access to individual theses by professors and students in the master's degree program. The entry for each of the 749 theses includes the author's name, the title, date of thesis, research methodology, a brief abstract, the Library of Congress call number, and subject headings. Most of the theses indexed here focus on topJ.cs relating to criminal, correctional, judicial, administrative, educational, psychological, sociological, or legal issues and policies in the United State:, particularly the state of Texas. An explanation of the way the theses are indexed precedes the subject index. (BBM) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** U.S. DEPARTMENT Or EDUCATION flfiip ol Educational Research anc Improvement EOUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER IERICI This document haS been reproduced as re( pinedI rom Ihe person oi organization originating it f' Minor changes havr ieen mad to impwve roproduction dual Points ol vie...or opinions stated in this docii menu do nol necessarily represent official OEM position or policy AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THESES: THE COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY, 1965-1990 By Peter J. Grande Master of Arts College of Criminal Justice and Richard J. Wood, PhD Director of Library Services Sam Houston State University Huntsville, TX 77341 April 1992 PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY 1?-1,ohardel.Woo( BEST COPY AVAILABLE TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)" AUTHOR ABSTRACT The authors provide a comprehensive, annotatedbibliography of the master's theses written by students of the College ofCriminal Justice, Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Theses from the establishmentof the program atSam HoustonState University in 1965 through 1990 are listed in alphabetical order by author. Abstracts are brief, two or three sentence statements. A subject index, based largely on Library of Congresssubject headings, is included as well. The authors state why the bibliography was needed and howit was created using the Pro-Cite softwareproduced by Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc.The bibliographic entries were copied into Word Perfect for ease of editing and printing. The authors also provide information about Sam Houston State University and College of Criminal Justice. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We should like to thank several faculty or staff members of Sam Houston State University for their helpin this project. Our gratitude is extended to (1) Professor Charles Friel (then Dean) andDebraMcCall, Assistant Graduate Coordinator, College of Criminal Justice, for their cooperation and assistance in verifying student records of theses; (2) Newton Gresham Library librarians Ann Holder and Nancy Bounds for their reference and bibliographic assistance and (3) Dan Konopnicki, Systems specialist, Newton Greshan Library for his generous help with Pro-Cite and Word Perfect software. With all of their assistance, completion of this reference source was far easier. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND 3 BIBLIOGRAPHY 7 SUBJECT INDEX 161 0 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to provide a single annotated bibliography, with a subject index,of master's degree theses written by students of the College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University from its establishment in 1965 through 1990. Several 1991 theses are included although their call numbers were not yet available. The authors saw the need for a comprehensive annotated bibliography of criminal justice theses for several reasons. Professors and students in the master's degree program often needed to review theses for content, format or ideas. Those who wanted to locate citations of theses by topic as well as abstracts, however, needed to use both the library's online catalog and the numerous volumes of the Abstracts of Theses in the library's reference collection. This multi-volume reference set reproduces all University students' own abstracts of theses about every other year. The abstracts in each volume are arranged alphabetically by surname under the degree program (Sociology, Biology, Criminal Justice, etc.) A subject index is not provided. Title or topical access to the theses abstracts in each volume, therefore, is provided only through the online or card catalog. A roadblock is encountered in searching the card catalog, however, because it was closed in 1985 although it is still accessible to library patrons. Moreover,ar.cess to either catalog is sometimes difficult because subject headings and cataloging practices have varied with different catalogers since 1965. Theauthorscreated thisannotated bibliography of criminal justice theses in order to increase access points and standardize subject headings by creating one subject index for all of the criminal justice theses written between 1965 and 1990. The authors developed this annotated bibliography by (1) obtaining alist of all graduates of the Master of Arts program from the College's graduate office, (2) comparing the list of graduates to the Abstract of Theses, (3) entering the key bibliographic information into the Pro-Cite program,(4) writing and inputting a brief abstract for each thesis and (5) trying to rectify missing volumes or entries as a result of a thorough inventory. The Pro-Cite software was used to input the bibliographic information and abstracts, as well as to create the subject index for this work. The Pro-Cite data file was then copied to a word processing package (Word Perfect) for editing. Pro-Cite allowed the authors to create a workform for entering the bibliographic information in the following order: t; 2 author, title, date of thesis, research methodology, abstract, Library of Congress call number, and subject heading(s). The methodologies used in each thesis were coded and displayed in the Pro-Cite "note" line. The codes are as follows: LR - Literature review Q - Questionnaire PE - Personal experience DC - Data collection I - Interviews, SA - Statistical analysis, and C - Case St.Idy Bibliographic information, abstracts and codes were based on the information supplied by the authors in theirown abstracts. Subject headings,however, were based on the Library of Congress subject headings assigned by catalogers at Sam Houston State University. 3 INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND Sam Houston State University was created by the Texas Legislature in 1879to train teachersfor Texas public schools. Called Sam Houston Normal Institute until 1923 when it became Sam Houston State Teachers College, the institution grew quickly and offered instruction in agriculture, home economics, the natural sciences, sociology, geography, and foreign languages. The first Baccalaureate degree was awarded in 1919. In 1925, the college was admitted to and accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Programs and the curriculum expanded once a graduate degree was authorized in 1936. By the 1960's, 25 percent of the graduating seniors were receiving degreesin business administration; socia... and communication sciences; the biological, physical and soil sciences; the fine arts and humanities, as well as education. Because of this growth, the institution's name was changed to Sam Houston State College in 1965. This is the same year that The Institute of Contemporary Corrections and the Behavioral Sciences was created as part of the institution. The mission of the Criminal Justice program at Sam Houston State University was set in 1963 by the Texas State Legislature (House Resolution 469). It directed the University, specifically, to:(1) develop undergraduate and graduate degree programs in criminal justice; (2) develop continuing education programs for criminal justice professionals; (3) conduct research on the problems of crime and the administration of justice; and (4) provide technical assistance to the state's criminal justice community. Within a few years of its inception in 1965, undergraduate degrees, graduate degrees, and extension programs were offered. The latter provided criminal justice educational opportunities for professionals in the metropolitan areas of the state for the first time in the state's history. Pleased with the early
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