About the National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Subject
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. NCJRS hosts one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world, the NCJRS Abstracts Database.

The abstracts include the title, author, sponsoring agency, purchasing address, and journal citation, as well as a 100- to 200-words summary of the document's contents. Keyword and index term searches of the database are easy. With the search capabilities offered, you can quickly retrieve all the citations relevant to your question or area of interest. More info

Sources
The collection contains more than 195,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.

Coverage
Holdings from the early 1970s to the present

Provider
U.S. Department of Justice

Help
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Access
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Revised: 02/08/2008