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URL: Criminal Justice Abstracts*

Criminal Justice Abstracts provides comprehensive coverage of the major journals in criminology and related disciplines, extensive coverage of books, and unparalleled access to reports from government and nongovernmental agencies. For each document, an informative summary of the findings, methodology, and conclusions is provided. Topics include crime trends, prevention projects, corrections, juvenile delinquency, police, courts, offenders, victims, and sentencing. One interesting feature of this database is you can limit your searches to the following defined classifications:
Crime, the Offender, and the Victim (C)
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency (J)
Police (P)
Courts and the Legal Process (CT)
Adult Corrections (CR)
Crime Prevention and Control Strategies (CP)
This way you will avoid getting irrelevant material. For example if you are interested in juvenile justice, by could eliminate material containing your search terms that might also apply to adults by including the term cl=j (Classification equals juvenile) in your search or, near the top right side of the screen you can set your search limits to whatever classification you wish.

List of Journals Indexed:
Journal Titles A - C
Journal Titles D - I
Journal Titles J - Q
Journal Titles R - Z

Dates of Coverage: 1968 -

Update Schedule: Monthly.

Database Producer: Ovid Technologies

*(Some material taken from description provided by OhioLINK or the publisher.)