For this assignment, we were supposed to find three scholarly pieces related to public sentiment or public opinion about big city crime.
Scholarly pieces report on original research.
A 'piece' can be an article in a journal, a research monograph, or a chapter in an edited volume of scholarly pieces. One important formal criterion is whether the piece includes specific references to other research and scholarly writing on the matter and whether full bibliographic details are given for all these references. Several strategies could be used to locate appropriate source. One such strategy was to use the sociofile database. Going through this list it was easy to find three pieces published within the last three years and published in journal available at the Hunter library.