Resource Overview
Alternate Title(s): National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NCJRS Abstracts Database
Platform: NCJRS
Link to Resource
"The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Virtual Library hosts a collection of over 235,000 information resources on criminal justice subjects, including corrections, courts, drugs, law enforcement, juvenile justice, victims of crime, and related topics. The Virtual Library provides access to all known [US Department of Justice: Office of Justice Programs] works and sponsored research, as well as to thousands of government products, research reports, journal articles, and published and unpublished literature produced through 2014."
Laurier Library has supported access to this freely available resource for many years. By August 2024, this resource saw a major interface change.
For more information about the library, go the NCJRS Virtual Library front page.
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U.S. database with summaries of articles, books and other materials about crime and corrections.
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1970 to present
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