When searching on a broad research topic like education and incarceration, consider limiting with the following:
-region (country or state)
-specific population (gender or sex; ethnicity; age group; generation)
-specific traits of a population (education status; mother/father identity; pregnant; able-bodied or otherwise; LGBTQ-identified)
When searching any topic, consider if and why or why not the following matters to your research:
-where the research was performed
-what years the research was performed
-the scholar's field of study (literature, criminology, American Studies, history, medicine)
-the scale of the study (Did they interview four people? Did they survey 6,000 people? Did they experience it personally?)
-the kinds of evidence gathered and methods used (Did the researcher study memoirs? Interview people? Live within the community? Do medical or psychological tests on the population? Analyze films?)
-the point of view of the participants/texts/citations (Did they interview victims of violent crime? Do they summarize the work of psychologists?)
What are alternative or similar words to the concept I am searching? Example:
juvenile/youth/minor/teenagers/high schoolers/adolescents
mental health/depression/anxiety/wellbeing
recreation/physical activity/physical education/sports/exercise/gym
