Indexing and full text across a wide range of criminal justice subjects. In addition to scholarly journals contents include trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice and related fields.
Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is an Office of Justice Programs (OJP) resource offering support and information to further justice-related research, policy, and program development. The 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.
There are over 235,000 criminal justice resources, including all the Office of Justice Program (OJP) documents that are searchable through the NCJRS Abstracts. A tutorial is available to learn how to search the collection, access resources, and view answers to frequently asked questions Coverage: 1970 - current.
NCJRS contains summaries of more than 190,000 publications including books, government reports, research reports, and unpublished research. It also includes content from 189 journals, including 12 with core coverage.
Global Issues in Context features hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Each gateway page includes an overview, articles by local experts, reference, periodical, and statistical information. Multimedia content enhances each portal.
This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development. The database abstracts and indexes thousands of serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations and citations to book reviews. Coverage: 1979 - current
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The database provides access to more than 3,000 scholarly journals on law related topics. It also contains a large collection of government documents including, the entire Congressional Record and Code of Federal Regulations, along with treaties, constitutions, case law, presidential documents, and more.