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John Jay College of Criminal Justice

An Introduction to Archival Research: CRJ70300 (Survey of Research Methods) 4/3/2025

This is a guide for Undergraduates, Graduates and the General Public - and an Introduction to Archival Research.

2025 class resources

John Jay College Library Special Collections and Digital Collections

Damhouder, Joos de (1570) Praxis Rervm Criminalivma copy is in the Rare Books, Digitally available here  https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb10152975?page=6,7 Additional works by same author in one search (some digitally available)

New York State Archives Guide to collections: Prisons https://www.archives.nysed.gov/research/prisons

United States National Archives (NARA) Records of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service [USFWS] https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/022.html

E. Evens consulted several abortion trial transcripts in our collection as well as related Manhattan DA indictment files at the Municipal Archives, NYPD Annual reports and other primary and secondary sources to present an early history of  investigative roles for policewomen in the NYPD. (2020). Plainclothes Policewomen on the Trail: NYPD Undercover Investigations of Abortionists and Queer Women, 1913–1926. Modern American History, 1-18. doi:10.1017/mah.2020.22

4/14/2021 Presentation to class

Suggested Resources

US National Archives and Records Admin (NARA)

Gilfoyle, T. (1994). Prostitutes in the Archives: Problems and Possibilities in Documenting the History of Sexuality. The American Archivist, 57(3), 514-527. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40293850

Phoenix House Foundation Oral History Collection, 2014-2015 (Columbia U. Sp. Coll.)

FBI Vault (freely accessible files)

NYC Municipal Archives Collections and Digital Collections

New York State Archives - collections on Prisons and Inmates and Digital Collections

Library of Congress Digital Collections and Chronicling America (newspapers)  JJC Library has listed additional Newspaper resources

Independent Voices -  open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals