Legal issues research resource

A good shortcut to researching legal issues is to check the various general resource and advocacy web sites listed at the beginning of this chapter. Many of these organizations regularly summarize or compile recent cases and documents. 

Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research. Firearm Violence An Annotated Bibliography. Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins Center, 1996. Covers resources dealing with firearms ownership and use, legal and legislative issues, the gun industry, gun control supporters and opponents, and strategies for reducing gun violence. 

Murphy, K R. (2004). Conflicting values and interests in handing research and practice. In H. Aguinis (Ed.), Test-score banding in human resource selection Technical, legal, and societal issues (pp. 175-192). Westport, CT Praeger. 

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