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National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (NCJRS)

Database of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts with summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications.

Provides summaries of federal, state, and local government reports and transcripts, books, research reports, training materials, program descriptions, statistics, journal articles, audiovisual products, and unpublished research. Covers corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, hate crimes, school safety, ex-offender programs, domestic preparedness, and victims of crime.

Coverage Dates: 
1970 - present; updated weekly
Search tips: 

To search on a word root with a variety of endings, use the * . For example, correction* will find the words correction, corrections, or correctional . Also use the * to allow for plurals: for example, type juvenile* to find the words juvenile or juveniles.

 

Free Resource
Vendor: 
U.S. Department of Justice