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Sociology and Criminal Justice Tutorial

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Extract from your topic statement the words and phrases representing each concept. In separate lines, list synonyms or alternate ways of expressing each concept. Enter words representing each idea in a separate database search box, for example:

delinquency
AND
"drug abuse"
OR
"substance abuse"

Enclosing a phrase in quotations retrieves the exact phrase.

Try searching up to three concepts at a time on separate lines in:


  delinquency AND ( ("drug abuse" or "substance abuse") in SOCIndex

Then view this short video about Boolean operators: