To get to this page on the Internet:

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu>
  2. Click on Internet Links (second icon down on left)
  3. Click on Criminal Justice
  4. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and under Course-related Materials, click on CJ Web-based Exercise

See if you can solve these 10 information problems. Each involves using tools and resources on the Internet. Give each one a try, but if/when you get stuck, click to read the "hint" page.

GETTING STARTED Open a new browser window (hold down the Ctrl key and press the N key) so you can look for the answers to the questions without disturbing this Web-based exercise To go back to the Web-based exercise, click on where it is at the bottom of your screen to bring it up.

Your name

Challenge 1: Find a specific Web site
What is the URL for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security?


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Challenge 2: Find a specific court case
Let's say you're at a meeting and your supervisor mentions Richards v Wisconsin, 1997 in relation to possibly obtaining a no-knock warrent. You'd like to remind yourself what Richards v Wisconsin, 1997 was about. Find the case on the Web and supply a brief summary:

Where did you find the case?

Briefly summarize the important points of the case that relate to no-knock warrents.
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Challenge 3: Find a specific document when you know the file type
You are putting together a task group that will plan how your police unit can better reach out to Hispanic gangs. You want to prepare a PowerPoint presentation to help orient everyone to the task. To get ideas, you would like to see other PowerPoint presentations on the topic. Find some good ones. Copy and paste the URL for one you like.


Hint

Challenge 4: Find out who owns a Web domain name
You have heard people refer to an organization called FlexYourRights -- flexyourrights.org. You visit their Web site. Who is the person who bought that domain name?


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Challenge 5: Find similar Web sites
Someone has directed you to idtheftcenter.org You'd like to find similar Web sites. 1. What's the easiest way to do that?

2. Supply the URL for a similar Web site, but one that originates from the government.

3. Supply the URL for a similar Web site that is another non-profit.
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Challenge 6: Crime stats for Santa Cruz
Find the annual report for crime statistics posted by the Santa Cruz Police Department on their Web site. Comparing 2005 to 2004, what types of crimes have increased by more than 10%?


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Challenge 7: Highly recommended Web site for a special need
Someone emails you at the police station to ask where they can report an incident of phishing. What Web site can they go to? What's its URL?


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Challenge 8: Find a definition
You're on the Internet, your textbook is out in the car, and you want to remind yourself what "fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine" is. What's an easy way to find a definition of that concept on the Web? Describe what you did.


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Challenge 9: Find a video
You are working with several other officers on a project to control graffiti in Santa Cruz. Someone tells you about a graffiti artist named Marc Ecko who's in a video where he talks about graffiti and tagging as being art. Sounds interesting. You'd like to watch it. Where can you do that?


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Challenge 10: Find a local newspaper article on a specific topic
To bring yourself up to speed quickly on the graffiti problem in this area, you want to read articles from the Santa Cruz Sentinel in the last year about taggers.

1. How do you look up the articles?

2. What's the title of one of the articles?

Hint

As this exercise is currently set up, what you submit drops into my email (Topsy Smalley, Instruction Librarian, Cabrillo College Library). If you'd like me to respond back to you, please give me your email address here:

Now that you're done, hit

Thanks!

How to get to this Exercise on the Internet

  1. Go to the Cabrillo College Library homepage <http://libwww.cabrillo.edu/>
  2. Click on Internet Links
  3. Click on Criminal Justice
  4. Under Course-Related Materials, click on CJ Web-based Exercise

 

Topsy N.Smalley 9/06