Public Administration

The multiple purposes of a literature review -- Sources of information and conducting searches -- Reading and note-taking strategies -- Reference management: keeping records and organising information -- Structuring the literature review -- In-text citations -- Being critical -- Foregrounding writer voice -- The continuing process -- A systematic literature review.

In Public Policy Writing That Matters, communications specialist David Chrisinger argues that public policy writing is most persuasive when it tells clear, concrete stories about people doing things. Combining helpful hints and cautionary tales with writing exercises and excerpts from sample policy documents

This practical text explores the basics of social policy and program analysis, including how to design new programs or evaluate and improve upon existing ones. It provides readers with the criteria for judging the effectiveness of current programs and outlines methods for analyzing social services;

Media violence and public policy. Content analysis of entertainment television : the importance of context

Black cop" : it's a blue thing (or is it?) / Kami Chavis -- "Illegal search" : race, person hood, and policing / Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. -- "Cops shot the kid" : police brutality, mass incarceration, and the reasonableness doctrine in criminal law / Kristin Henning