CURRENT TOPICS FOR RESEARCH

On the left are some current issues in the news today. The following webliography highlights key web pages on each subject. The library also has periodical databases, including CQ Researcher and Issues and Controversies,  key current issues services. For other topics, try Policy.com for both sides of an issue.

ABORTION

Abortion Perspectives

www.religioustolerance.org/abortion.htm

Medical, religious and legal perspectives (most are pro-choice)

California Abortion & Reproductive Rights Action League

www.caral.org/abortion.html

Links to pro-choice and pro-life web sites

Feminists for Life

www.feministsforlife.org

Search Hot Topics or Pregnancy Resources or College Outreach Program

Ultimate Pro-Life Resource List

www.prolifeinfo.org

Links to news, information and organizations.

ALCOHOL ADVERTISEMENTS

Booze News

www.cspinet.org/booze/
Alcohol Policies Project (1996) to prevent harm from alcohol

Alcohol Advertising and Consumption

www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/default.html

Select alcohol advertising Sociology Professor, Dr. David Hanson, refutes the claim that advertising increases consumption

Mothers Against Drunk Driving

www.madd.org/hot_issues/default.shtml

Search for alcohol advertisements

DRINKING ON CAMPUS

College Binge Drinking

www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/BingeDrinking/BingeDrinking.html

Claims that college binge drinking is declining

Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention

www.edc.org/hec/

Information and links to web sites

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information

www.health.org

Information concerning substance abuse; links to web sites

EMBRYO RESEARCH

Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics

www.stemcellresearch.org

Objections to destruction of human embryos for research

National Bioethics Advisory Commission

www.bioethics.gov/search.html

Search for embryo research and stem cell research

GUN CONTROL

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

www.bradycampaign.org/

Support for handgun controls; news releases

Gun Cite

www.guncite.com/

Gun control as a 2nd amendment issue

Infoplease.com

www.infoplease.com/spot/guntime1.html

Timeline of gun legislation from 1791 to present; links to web sites

National Center for Policy Analysis

www.ncpa.org/

Opposes gun control; search gun control for a both sides approach

JUVENILE JUSTICE

American Bar Association Juvenile Justice Center

www.abanet.org/crimjust/juvjus

Monitors legislative policy and administrative changes in juvenile justice systems

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

www.cjcj.org

Nonprofit organizations goal is to reduce reliance on incarceration as a solution

National Center for Juvenile Justice

www.ncjj.org

Research division of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org

Information and resources about juvenile justice and delinquency prevention

MEDICINAL MARIJUANA

Marijuana Policies Project

www.mpp.org/

Status of legalization efforts in each state

Marijuana for Medicinal Use

www.lindesmith.org/mmjmain.html

Links to documents favoring legalization of medicinal marijuana

National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

www.norml.org/

Weekly news bulletins and links to web sites

SCHOOL PRAYER

American Atheists

www.atheists.org/schoolhouse

Stand against school prayer

American Center for Law and Justice

www.aclj.org/

Search ACLJ Supreme Court cases for Santa Fe ISD v. Doe

American Civil Liberties Union

www.aclu.org/library/aaprayer.html

Background on school prayer

SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM

Cato Institute

www.socialsecurity.org/

Alternatives to current system

Social Security Administration

www.ssa.gov/

Electronic publications, services, questions and links to web sites

Social Security Network

www.socsec.org/

Information and opinions on the social security debate

Urban Institute

www.urban.org/retirement/st/straight29.html

Nonpartisan institute publishes studies and reports

SPEED LIMITS

Arizona Department of Transportation

www.dot.state.az.us/ROADS/traffic/speed.htm

Arguments for reasonable speed limits

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety/Highway Loss Data Institute

www.hwysafety.org/

Supports safe speed limits: Select Safety Facts then Speed"

National Motorists Association

www.motorists.org/

Organization responsible for ending the national 55 mph speed limit in 1995

TERRORISM IN AMERICA

 

America's War Against Terrorism

www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/usterror.html

From the University of Michican, a comprehensive annotated list of web sites

 

Terrorism Research Center

www.terrorism.com/index.shtml

Current issues; links to web sites

U.S. Secret Service

www.secretservice.gov

Includes a strategic plan to protect against terrorism

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