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John Jay College of Criminal Justice

An Introduction to Archival Research: Prof. Monnin- Senior Seminar in History - Fall 2024

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

see below!

This guide will be refined and updated as we work through your projects this semester I'll be adding links and suggestions, mainly of secondary literature here - beyond what is already provided in the finding aids. Good luck on your Capstone Papers! I'm here to help!

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If you want to come in to use the collection outside of our scheduled class times  email libspcoll @ jjay.cuny.edu at least a few days in advance of your request for an appointment.

 See current availability for appointments here.

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For taking and managing your research photos from the collection you are working with you might want to try using the DropBox Paper App. Use your CUNYFirst login to claim your DropBox Account.

How to find and borrow a book from the Library

Charles Kremer Papers

Bobango, G. J. (1981). Religion and politics : Bishop Valerian Trifa and his times. East European Monographs. available to borrow from Queens College Library

Raphael Lemkin Papers at NYPL

Articles resulting from a search on Romania (subject) and Genocide (keyword) in Academic Search Complete and Historical Abstracts and Humanities Source databases (login with your JJC email)

Nastasă-Matei, I. (2021). Transnational Far Right and Nazi Soft Power in Eastern Europe: The Humboldt Fellowships for Romanians. East European Politics and Societies, 35(4), 899-923. https://doi.org/10.1177/0888325420937791

Canevari Papers

Digitized items  from this collection.

At the NYC Municipal Archives Carlo Tresca assassination closed case files (Black Hand case) - (requires an appointment)

Digitally available images on the Bomb Squad from the NYC Municipal Archives.

Search on the Black Hand (U.S.) subject heading in Academic Search Complete & Historical Abstracts and Books & and Articles found in OneSearch

Italian Americans -- New York (state) -- New York subject search in OneSearch

Italian Americans -- New York (state) -- New York -- Social Conditions subject search in OneSearch

Sacco, V. F. (2003). black hand outrage: a constructionist analysis of an urban crime wave. Deviant Behavior, 24(1), 53. https://doi.org/10.1080/10639620390117192

How to find and borrow a book from the Library

Search on "Italian and Fruit and Police"  results Articles in the New York Times 1929-1939

Search on "Italian and Insurance crime and police" results articles in the New York Times 1929-1940

Articles mentioning Eugene Canevari in the New York Times 1851-1950

 

Elizabeth Williams Courtroom Drawings

Illustrated Courtroom Blog by Elizabeth Williams

Richard TOMLINSON Courtroom Drawings Collection (with additional suggestions for sources on courtroom drawings).

Sullivan, L. E., Kenny, A. W., Williams, E., & Kroessler, J. A. (2017). Rogues gallery : forty year retrospective of courtroom art from Son of Sam to El Chapo. John Jay Press, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. Library Stacks - NC953.5 .U6 R63 2017.

Research guide on Courtroom Art and Artists

Mollen Commission Public Hearings Collection

Rocky Flint Collection

Books in our collections with the subject heading Dahmer, Jeffery.

Jeffrey Dalmer case (785 F. Supp. 1343), 1993-1995 in boxes 90-91 of the James Fyfe Papers [mis-spelled Daumer in finding aid] - Estate of Sinthasomphone v. City of Milwaukee, 785 F. Supp. 1343 (E.D. Wis. 1992) is also summarized on Justia

Articles resulting from a search on Dahmer, Jeffrey in Academic Search Complete and Criminal Justice Abstracts (login with your JJC email)

Articles resulting from a search on Dahmer, Jeffrey in PschInfo (login with your JJC email)

Melendez, M. S., Lichtenstein, B., & Dolliver, M. J. (2016). “Mothers of mass murderers: Exploring public blame for the mothers of school shooters through an application of courtesy stigma to the Columbine and Newtown tragedies”: Corrigendum. Deviant Behavior, 37(8), 963. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2016.1192925 [from PsychInfo - log in with JJC email]

Valentine Collection

Digitally available items from this collection

For resources on Crime Mapping - try searching Subject = "Crime and Mapping"

In OneSearch and a combined Database Search of Academic Search Complete and Criminal Justice Abstracts

perhaps narrow down your results by adding the keyword "Drugs"

Materials available from the Library/OneSearch on the subject headings on Valentine's book The Strength of the Wolf 

Other suggested subject headings Mafia -- United States - History

Articles resulting from a search on subject=Drug control and United States AND keyword = History And a different result using Drug Trafficking in a combined database search of Academic Search Complete, Criminal Justice Abstracts and America History and Life (login with your JJC email)

Articles resulting from a search on Pizza Connection in Academic Search Complete and Criminal Justice Abstracts (login with your JJC email)

Richard TOMLINSON Courtroom Drawings Collection (has many courtroom drawings from the Pizza Connection Trial).