Monday, June 2, 2008

National Criminal Justice Reference Service NCJRS Abstracts Database


National Criminal Justice Reference Service NCJRS Abstracts Database [http://www.ncjrs.gov/abstractdb/search.asp] - The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of the more than 195,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection. The database contains abstracts only, there is NO full text - See Obtaining Documents for information on obtaining copies of documents featured. Most documents published by NCJRS sponsoring agencies -- the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Bureau of Justice Assistance, all part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy -- since 1995 are available in full-text online. When the full-text is available online, a link is included with the abstract.