NCJRS Abstracts Database
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research reports, training materials, program descriptions, statistics, journal articles, audiovisual products, and unpublished research.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. The NCJRS Virtual Library is a separate collection of over 7,000 full-text publications from the Web sites of the agencies of the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. This full-text database must be searched separately from the main database.
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.
List of Titles Indexed in NCJRS Full-Text