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Description: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications. Users can also search the NCJRS collection of 7,000+ full-text publications. Most documents are indexed from NCJRS sponsoring agencies:

All are part of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Also see the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics , which brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States, including: Criminal justice characteristics; Public opinion; Crime, victims; Arrests, seizures; Courts, prosecution, sentencing; and Parole, jails, prisons, death penalty.

Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s):
Law
Politics & Government
Publicly Available Resources
Social Sciences

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