National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database

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The NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database is published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service, an information clearinghouse for people around the U.S. and the world involved with research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains summaries of over 210,000 U.S. and international publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research.

This database connects to information about UBC Library holdings of books (via WorldCat).  To see if UBC Library owns or provides access to journal articles or other materials in the NCJRS, search for the items via the UBC Library homepage at http://www.library.ubc.ca.

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service providesaccess to the same content at http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/AbstractDB/AbstractDBSearch.aspx

 Access open only to UBC students, faculty, staff and on-site Library users (other restrictions may apply)

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