The Public and the Justice System: Attitudes, Drivers and Behaviour - A Literature Review

Annex A: Literature Search Terms

The literature search was conducted in two parts - first a general search was conducted, using the search terms shown in table A, then a second search was undertaken using specifically civil justice related search terms, as shown in table B.

For both searches, each search term in column 1 was combined with each search term with column 2, so that all combinations were used.

As part of the first search, searches for behavioural search terms were also undertaken using the following terms:

• Pro-social behaviour (with and without criminal justice)
• Co-operation (with public, justice and police)
• Anti social behaviour (with and without public and confidence)

Both sets of searches were applied to a range of databases, depending on what was available to the researcher through the Scottish Government library. These included:

• Academic Search Premier
• Criminal Justice Abstracts
• SocINDEX
• ASSIA
• CSA Social Science Abstracts
• CSA Sociological Abstracts
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts

Table A: Initial Search Terms

Table B: Civil Search Terms