The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database is now online.

NCJRS serves as an international clearinghouse of criminal justice information, and is sponsored by NIJ and the other bureaus of the Office of Justice Programs. The NCJRS Abstracts Database provides 100-200 word abstracts for more than 145,000 criminal justice publications. Literature covered includes U.S. Federal, State, and local government documents; books; journals; unpublished research reports; and program descriptions and evaluations; from the early 1970s up to the present. Currently more than 400 new items are added to the database each month. The NCJRS Abstracts Database (formerly known as the NCJRS Document Data Base) will continue to be updated on CD-ROM and is also accessible via the DIALOG information service.